Tim: I didn’t realise until I looked it up just now, but the song title translates to “Skinny Dipping”, which suddenly brings a whole lot more sense to the performance.
Tim: That’s the performance from the final, there, which differs from the first heat and from Andra Chansen in that here they pull their trousers off as well as their tops, getting even more in the mood.
Tom: My assessment of them as Swedish Jedward holds true.
Tim: Another thing non-Swedes might not get: the first line of the chorus talks about getting your kit off in Sergels torg, a location that’s basically Stockholm’s version of Trafalgar Square. So now we know what sort of song it is, we’re in a better place to judge it.
And you know what? Despite their decidedly off point vocals, it’s a pretty good song, as we’d expect from the writers: one of them had a hand in Undo and another brought us Guld och Gröna Skogar, so we shouldn’t really be going wrong.
Tom: Yep, you’re right. But this got zero points from the juries. It shouldn’t be going wrong…
Tim: …and yet, it is. The problem, of course, is that it’s being sung by two guys who, while admittedly being very good looking and energetic, manage to hit approximately a quarter of all the notes.
Tom: Which is such a shame! I looked up the studio version of this and — when they’re not doing the vocals live — it’s actually a really good track, in the same way that Jedward’s “Waterline”, with its similar staging, was a really good track. If they could sing, this would have been among my favourites.
Tim: We’ve pretty much got a song that only one act could pull off, and yet they can’t sing particularly well. You’re right – Jedward all over again. Oh, well, into the dustbin of musical history you go.