Tim: Remember Nicoline?
Tom: No!
Tim: Sounds about right. She’s the one who competed to enter Eurovision for Norway with a performance that I refused to classify as a Reject. Here’s her follow up.
Tim: And that further justifies what I said back then: proper pop star, making properly good pop songs, but sadly right now getting nowhere near the recognition that she deserves. That could change, of course – happened for Zara Larsson, though I’ve no idea where she’s got to recently – and I really hope it does. Damn, this really could be a proper ‘sound of the summer’ track.
Tom: I was going to be all cynical about this, but then the chorus kicked in. I disagree that it’s a ‘sound of the summer’ contender — the lyrics are stuck on about one note in every line, and I’m not sure those high-pitched vocal samples in the background work as well as the producer thinks they do. That said: brilliant chorus, great production, there’s definitely something good here.
Tim: It’s a great track. Brilliant. SO COME ON PEOPLE LET’S MAKE IT HAPPEN.