Tim: Here’s a Finnish ballad for your ears, all in Finnish with a title that’s something like “In the 2080’s”.
Tim: I say ‘something like’ – every time we feature a Finnish song I seem to complain about Google not liking it (I think it must be all the dots), and this is no different, with the chorus featuring the lines “Sun flannel willingness to lend” and “I have a nasty gas”.
Tom: Finnish doesn’t have common roots with English; machine-translating it isn’t easy.
Tim: I’m therefore going to make an educated guess, based on the lyrics that it can interpret and the general tone that it’s about being a bit miserable with everything now (starts off on about Netflix binging, also mentions trying to change) but being hopeful that seventy years from now she’ll be happy. Not a hugely cheering message, as most people around right now will be dead by then, and she’ll be pushing 90, but ANYWAY, enough chirpy guesswork with the lyrics, because MUSIC, which is lovely with her vocals, all charming and melancholic and emotional and shivery and feelsy.
Tom: Top quality music reviewing just there.
Tim: Oh, thank you very much.
Tom: There’s a well-produced and deep instrumental behind those vocals, though: it’s not quite Coldplay, but it’s not doing badly if that’s what it’s aspiring towards.
Tim: Although, weird thing and speaking of her vocals: I was listening to my Best of 2011 playlist earlier and there are parts of this that I want to suddenly flow into Playmate to Jesus; finally, in other 2011/Finnish lyrics news, this here from Jenni Vartiainen is still a triumph, so why not check that out?