Tim: Second single from Swedish Victor, and before you push play, I’ll ask you not to be immediately put off by the lyrics in the first verse.
Tom: Those are bloody awful lyrics.
Tim: Indeed: let’s face it, the issues are myriad. ‘Shades of grey are more than fifty’ makes it already outdated, the restricted zone metaphor doesn’t make much sense, and I’m fairly sure ‘You’re not answering your phone, right outside and I can hear you’ would be grounds for a restraining order. Add that to the inevitably irritating ukulele twanging, and you’re almost certain to end up with a song I’ll hate.
Tom: “Your life is a restricted zone.” I’d say that’s a translation issue, but I can’t even work out what that might have been translated from.
Tim: Yeah – it’s really quite bizarre. After all that, though, and just as I’m preparing to throw my iPad across the room, that chorus comes along.
Tom: And it could be so trite! The lyrics are sophomoric, the melody is predictable (and has something of the Bublé about it) but somehow the sheer major-key enthusiasm of it saves it.
Tim: It really does just sound so good. Nowhere near good enough to make up for those lyrics, verse instrumentation, the missing space in the title and entire lack of effort from the middle eight onwards, but that it still a chorus that brings along, yup, a ‘feelgood’ day. Nice lyric video as well, so, hmm, 27%.