Justin Hawkins is one of the most entertaining talkers in rock music, and his conversation with Rick Beato about the making of “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” is exactly the kind of inside look that reminds you how much craft and luck goes into a song becoming a classic. The clip covers the realities of getting a record deal in the early 2000s alongside the specific creative decisions that made the song land the way it did. Hawkins is candid, funny, and completely unguarded in a way that makes the whole conversation genuinely entertaining regardless of how well you know The Darkness or the song itself.


