Tag: Panetoz

Panetoz – Om

Tim: Let’s get the week off to a good start, shall we? Nice upbeat party track for you from Panetoz, with a title translating to If.

Tim: Each chorus line is basically “If [example of shit happening happens], we’ll have each other,” which I suppose is nice as long as you’re not the husband and wife in The Purge, but that might be too obscure a reference to stick with so I’ll move on.

Tom: Far too obscure for me. But at least, as the old saying goes, they got straight to the chorus.

Tim: Basically, for anyone not interested in violent and somewhat disturbing sociologically experimental films, it’s a let’s have fun track. So much fun, in fact, that to be honest I can’t imagine where the lyrics came from – it’s one of the biggest disjoints between music and lyrical mood I’ve heard in a while. UPBEAT PARTY SHOUT YEAH so let’s imagine the world ending PARTY WOOOH!!!

Tom: And it is a pretty good party track, isn’t it? Sure, it’s lightweight, but it gets the job done. Horn section in the background, clapping and cheering samples, boxes ticked.

Tim: Ah, well – fortunately for me I don’t know anywhere near enough Swedish to let that distract me, so I’m just going to feel happy.

Saturday Flashback: Panetoz – Dansa Pausa

Tim: This here, a track I was going to write about when it got released two and a half years back but which got buried in a background tab until it was way too late, and eventually found its way into my Future Flashbacks pile. Let’s have it now, because it’s really quite fun.

Tim: Panetoz are a five-piece band from Sweden, originating variously from Gambia, Ethiopia, Angola, Congo and Finland, so that’s fun, isn’t it?

Tom: Mm. It’s certainly trying to be fun, but it seems a bit more like the kind of enforced ‘fun’ that follows after a teacher tries to start a singalong on a school coach trip.

Tim: This track, a very enjoyable party number, got to number one in Sweden, deservedly so – it’s almost what you’d get if Pitbull actually made listenable music, and almost makes me resent him even more, for not doing so.

Tom: Whoa, whoa, really? Pitbull makes extremely listenable music, if you just remove Pitbull. And I’m astonished this made it to number 1 – it just doesn’t seem, well, good enough.

Tim: I said this topped the charts in Sweden – elsewhere in the world, an English version entitled (perhaps unsurprisingly) Dance Pause got to number 53 when it was released in Belgium; I don’t really know what the thinking there might have been, but there you go.

This isn’t, incidentally, the only time they almost appeared here – they got to the final of this year’s Melodifestivalen with Efter Solsken, which almost made the cut as a Saturday Reject. But then it didn’t. Oh well.