The second Twin Shadow, Confess, plays a lot as you'd expect from the follow-up to 2010's synthy, swooning Forget. There's a bigger, more bombastic edge to its new-wave revivalism, George Lewis Jr pushing his '80s recreationism to over-the-top, totally-cheesy places, be they power-balladic ("Run My Heart," which sounds like Richard Marx) or anthemic ("Beg for the Night," which sounds like the lost theme-tune to some Brat Pack teen movie)."Five Seconds" aptly foreshadows the new Twin Shadow: the tune boasting a harder edge, befitting both the long touring grind that followed Forget, and Lewis' apparent inspiration for the album, which came, supposedly, from riding a motorcycle around Los Angeles and its surrounds.
Thus, the song boasts an accelerated pace, some crunchy rock guitars, and a pantomimed masculine angst; Lewis' sudden need for speed —and love for homoerotic leather— feeling as if modeled on Tom Cruise in Top Gun.
The lyrics are a collection of none-too-life-altering hooks repeated with increasing forcefulness. "Five seconds in your heart," is sung endlessly, and there's plenty of riffing on tears and distance. "I'm not trying to make you cry," GJL croons, "I don't believe in you/you don't believe in me/so how could you make me cry?" It all seems a piece of pained anguish at ephemeral emotions and a poisoned paramour, our hero riding away his heartache over the flickering lines of the highway...
Twin Shadow, "Five Seconds"
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