Tim: THIRTEEN WEEKS TO GO, THOMAS!
Tom: BRING IT ON!
Tim: For those that weren’t with us last year, this is the part of year when we scour the various national competitions to weed out the songs that are very good, but apparently just aren’t quite good enough to be sent forth to represent their nation. God only knows how this one wasn’t good enough, but it came sixth in last week’s Melodifestivalen heat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0OSxRa6DO0
Tim: Because seriously, that song IS Melodifestivalen. The lights, the confetti, the generous key change —
Tom: The wind machine. Oh, that wind machine.
Tim: — the beat-perfect choreography and most of all the aggression in it. Not an angry aggression, not an unpleasant one – instead, a performance that states, in no uncertain terms, that THIS IS POP. This is MUSICAL PERFECTION. This is UNBEATABLE.
Tom: You say “unbeatable”, but…
Tim: Sadly, Sweden disagreed.
Tom: Yep. We’ve established before that schlager doesn’t really do well at the final. Are they right to reject it as a winner? Probably. Does it deserve to be abandoned? Hell no.