Tim: There’s a (slight) chance the first line or two of the chorus may remind you of something; it did me and I felt a great sense of satisfaction when I worked out what it was.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLtNGmCe8QY
Tom: Bloody hell, I’ve never heard audience clapping die out that anticlimactically before. “Clap! Clap! Clap! Clap!… oh, wait, it’s a slow song. Never mind.”
Tim: It is a bit odd, isn’t it? Musically, though, it’s great (aside from the occasional duff note in the performance).
Tom: He does appBZZZ to be sZZZng a bit close to tZZZ micrZZZZZT at times, doesn’t he?
Tim: Brilliant tune – like, really brilliant, I think – and it’s definitely one of my favourites from the night. Denmark didn’t agree, unfortunately, and it didn’t make it through to the semi-final stage*.
Tom: And I don’t agree either: it’s constantly threatening to burst out, but it never quite does – even when they’re actually pumping their fists in the air and jumping around the stage, it dies back down again. It’s a bit Gollum and Smeagol, really; it’s like someone keeps crossfading between two different but similar-sounding songs.
Tim: You think? I reckon it’s fantastic. Past the music, though, as a love song it’s slightly odd, consisting as it does of a guy and a girl singing to each other about how the relationship is bad for them; if you both feel that way, just break up.
Tom: Or at least take the microphone away from your mouth.