One of the main strikes against 'Diane' is that it has the misfortune to follow the fresh racing bike of 'Needles And Pins with a song that pitches up on a penny farthing and sounds as starchy as their name - for a bunch of early twentysomethings (younger than The Saturdays, Spice Girls, Pussycat Dolls et al were in their own pomp), that moniker suggests a harking back to more formal days and does nothing to unwind this; would The Sugarbabes have had the same impact if they'd called themselves The Spinsters I wonder?True, a song from 1927 is not going to sound inherently 'modern', but The Bachelors don't do anything to give it a contemporary spin either and they take the humourless "You have lighted the road leading home, pray for me when you can" lyric at a face value that stands as rigidly against the tide of change around them as Cnut. 'Diane' is serviceable enough, but it's ten years out of time and I see no virtue in its stubborn obstinacy, though that might be a long winded way of saying that this is not my cup of tea. At all.
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