Tim: New one off the Eurovision winner, unveiled just in time to be performed on Melodifestivalen’s Andra Chansen show, with one of the weirdest performances I’ve seen there. But here’s the proper version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gce8U1-JWew
Tim: And…and I’m really not sure what I think of it.
Tom: I opened this in a background tab, and I’ll be honest: I couldn’t make out a single one of those lyrics until I actually looked at it. I genuinely didn’t think it was in English.
Tim: I’ve listened to it a good seven or eight times now, over the past few days, and still I’m having trouble forming an opinion; from that, I reckon I can derive two facts: I don’t hate it, and I don’t love it.
Tom: I’m not sure my brain recognises it as “pop music”. It’s verging into the experimental.
Tim: I think it’s the fact that it’s a fairly complex song – you’ve got your standard vocal, which is pretty good, over the light piano instrumental, also good. But then you’ve the chorus, which has the dance part to it, but also has that pitch-shifted vocal, which is where things become unsure for me. What do you reckon?
Tom: Ultimately, we’re a blog about Europop here, and I just can’t count it as being good pop. Musically, it may well be extremely interesting — but I don’t want to listen to it again, and that’s what I’ve got to score it on.