Album Review

WeThe Kings – Heaven Can Wait

• 1st Mar 2010

You may have thought pop-rock was past its heyday. If that’s the case, listening to ‘Heaven Can Wait’ could just change your mind.

Following the classic pop-rock formula – four ‘alternative’ high-school kids bond over music and take their talent and enthusiasm on the road, gathering fans along the way – We The Kings have already had enormous success in the US, headlining the Warped Tour and selling over 2 million tracks. This track is evidence that We The Kings are worth the hype.

It’s a vibrant love song which encapsulates the band’s youthful optimism and infects the listener with it, too. Comparisons have been drawn between We The Kings and All Time Low, but this song bears none of the latter’s aggression or irony. Instead, ‘Heaven Can Wait’ is a shameless celebration of young love, identifying itself as ‘a song for the one that stole my heart’. Infatuated adolescents (and anyone who remembers what it was like to be one) will feel an affinity with the lyrics, which are a charmingly honest tale of adoration. The first time you hear it, you’ll instantly be able to picture legions of loyal teenage fans singing along in earnest, jumping up and down in their skinny jeans and eye-liner. And you’ll want to join in with them.

A family-friendly track with a memorable and irresistibly upbeat chorus, even the opening riff will get stuck in your head for days; it’s repeated throughout the song, but rather than being monotonous, it’s as though the passion and ardour are being reinforced.

We The Kings are a band with limitless potential, an ever-expanding fan base – and now a guaranteed teen anthem as their latest release.