Tim: Rounding off our top three 2016 Eurovision tracks, this comes from Lithuania and sits nicely amongst a female power ballad and a schlager prince as an excellent example of decent, mainstream male fronted pop.
Tim: For reasons that’ll become clear in due course, I’ve been listening to Let It Go a LOT lately —
Tom: I’m hoping you’re performing as Elsa in Disney on Ice, but I suspect that’s not why.
Tim: Correct. — and so I can’t help but clench my fists at those first few notes of each verse. On the other hand, everything else about it is so good that I can’t help but forgive that. It’s Donny’s second trip to Eurovision, following his mid-table placement in 2012 with Love is Blind, and if Europeans have any sense at all this’ll do a whole lot better than that.
Tom: Ah, but do they? Or will they see it as being a bit too retro, a bit too slow in the verses, not quite enough to make it? It’s good, but those verses are…
Tim: Starting out mild and calm, then descending swiftly into hefty amount of dance beats in the chorus and never really letting go. Let’s be honest: if this was an X Factor winner’s single, it’d be straight to number one – as it is, being an eastern European entry for Eurovision it’ll probably sink internationally without a trace.
Tom: I said that about Ben Haenow’s debut single. And then.
Tim: Hmm. Still, let’s give it its two months of glory, shall we?