Tim: Back to the good stuff, and let’s have this from Lena – in case you need an intro, she’s Swedish, has been going over thirty years, representing Sweden at Eurovision 12 years ago, and this here, translating as Shed No Tears, is her second release from album number 13.
Tim: Starts big, stays big, and indeed basically just is big.
Tom: Timpani hits! There are timpani hits in there, I think, or something very close to them. Not something you hear in pop music since… well, since Aqua, perhaps?
Tim: Quite possibly. It’s not a modern sound by any standards, but it’s picking up plenty of plays on Sweden’s equivalent of Radio 2 so the target market clearly like it, and I do too.
Tom: I know I’ve heard something very similar to the first line of that chorus before in a few places, but I don’t give a damn. It’s a really good first line.
Tim: Not a huge amount more to say about it, really – it’s a good track, more or less exactly as we’d really expect from anybody still going strong for as long as she has. Great to know she’s still got it, and here’s to albums 14, 15, and all the rest.