Tim: A pair of Norwegians, with a song that’s been out basically everywhere except the UK for a while now, and gone top 10 in all of Scandinavia, America and Germany, but has only just now been given a UK release date. Have a listen, why don’t you.
Tom: Oh heavens, it’s a music video with credits. Much as I like seeing music video directors get their due, it still seems pretentious.
Tim: I’m going to be honest: I don’t see it being huge here. I’m very willing to be proved wrong (and I may just be saying this based on only listening to Radio 1), but it doesn’t really strike me as the sort of thing that ‘we Brits’ would buy.
Tom: Hmm. Is that based on style, or based on it being decent? It’s not bad — although I’ll admit I did get bored half way through.
Tim: It’s a good enough track, and there’s not a lot to say against it, but at the moment British charts seem to favour more stuff that is fairly out and about and confident and, gah, I don’t know how to put it, but just something that this doesn’t have. Take this week, top 10 entries include Ella Henderson at 1 and Tiësto at 3, Little Mix’s power-pop Salute and that awful Wiggle song by Jason Derulo. This just doesn’t seem to have, I don’t know, it. I like it, but, well, personally? I wouldn’t buy it.
Tom: See, I think you’re wrong: I’m not guaranteeing it’ll actually hit the top 40, but I can see it up there. If Ed Bloody Sheeran can manage it, these guys can.
Tim: As a positive to finish on, though, a thing I found out whilst researching: Let It Go is still in the top 20, after 27 weeks. Wonderful.