Zeropaid -(Star Rating **/5) - The third act in the famous Universal clan, along with Busted and McFly. V haven't made the same impact in music that there friends have however still had a top five sucess with Blood, Sweat and Tears. Although Busted and McFly have had six number ones between them, V are still hanging in there hoping to equal the sucess of there label mates. After touring the UK twice in the past year it is obvious V have no Shortage of fans so they do have potential. Hip to Hip is a weak song as is Can You Feel It? This song should not and probably will not do well.
Hadn't even heard of this mag till i went down to Cornwall and by the sounds of it they hadn't properly heard of V as blood sweat and tears wasn't a top 5 song unfortunately!

Kylie Klub- Editor�s Choice!!! - Another boyband, another cover version � but this one we like! Those V boys release their double A-side single this week with a cover version of the Jackson�s Can You Feel It?And although not a patch on the original, it�s a pretty good offering! However, we much prefer Hip To Hip which is a funky, Latino style tune that really does make you want to shake those hips!
Im loving the fact that its editors choice and i guess the Jacksons are a hard cover to do so quite liking this review otherwise!

Pop Justice -'Hip To Hip', even though the vastly superior a-side seems to have been all but ditched in favour of the 'Can You Feel It?', which may well have the better video but it feels like a bit of a cop-out really, does it not?
Good review although i personally love the video for can you feel it!

Totally Telly -The 5-peice boy band V are back with their follow up single to their top 10 hit "Blood Sweat&Tears", with a double A-side consisting of a new song "Hip To Hip" and a cover of the Jackson 5's song "Can You Feel it". "Hip To Hip" is a catchy pop tune with a Latin theme and is a perfect summer track for pop music fans like myself. The video for it was shot over in Brazil in locations such as the beach, a restaurant and pool side. "Can You Feel It" is also a very infectious song and V have done something different with their video for it. Instead of typical boy band videos they have dressed themselves in outfits for different jobs. A post man, ice cream man, window salesman, milk man and paper boy.. and they also do quite a cool dance to the song as well.
I think all V's songs I have heard so far are very good.. pure pop and any fans of pop music and boy bands will probably enjoy listening to these tracks and so this single is very worth buying for them! I hope V stick around for a good while! 5 Out Of 5
Best review so far!!

Popjustice's pet boyband make - as you might expect - wonderfully infectious singles, and when I've seen them on TV the enthusiasm has crackled off the screen. But just what is it that makes V so different, so appealing? One thing that strikes me is the lack of an R&B influence. After East 17, the R&B element in British boyband music rose steadily. Five's best singles were breezy pop (the gorgeous "Keep On Movin") but they also put out things like "Slam Dunk (Da Funk)", which were basically inconclusive experiments in whether a boyband could get away with a bit of rapping.* Bands like 911, Another Level and Blue all fancied themselves as more-or-less credible smoothies. The only early-00s group to find much success without off-the-peg soul stylings were A1 (who decided to write their own songs instead, but that's another story).
It's not that there's anything wrong with doing R&B stuff, it's just that when real actual R&B is so hot a British boyband needs to put in a titanic amount of effort to come up with any goods. Blue managed it on their first album - their bump'n'grind moves weren't too embarassing and enhanced the pop core of songs like "All Rise" - but since then have gone the easy way into mic-hugging balladry and duets with cash-eyed oldies. So doing arsewaggling dancey pop like "Hip To Hip" is a way out of this sweaty quandary, a way of doing boybands without their members continually looking over their dipped shoulders at Usher et al.
The only thing is - will it float? Poor old Phixx did a 'pure pop' boyband thing and seem to have flopped, though their songs were worse and their eighties image more stylised than V's. And V's first single didn't set the charts ablaze. It may be that there's a rockist McFly in the ointment here, that the return of songwriting and instrument-playing to the boyband arena has shifted the game in directions the likes of V are unable to follow. Hope not, though.
*(The wayback prototype for boyband rap being Wham!'s peerless first three singles, but a lot had changed since '83, i.e. the punters' realisation that some level of 'mic skillz' might be expected of rappers, rather than the form being a novelty free-for-all. V remind me of Wham! with their energy and confidence and occasional wit and lo and behold "Hip To Hip" DOES have a rap on it but it's that kind of loveable old-school not-really-rapping rapping you got on "Wham Rap!", and after Cowboy Troy's turn on "Rollin'" it's the best example of same this year and makes me smile invariably.)
Very mixed review! <-- BACK