Tag: Ulrika

Ulrika – Love Goes

“I think it could do with not-boring-us-getting-to-the-chorus a bit more.”

Tim: I pressed play, thought “hmm, this is okay, I’ll keep going”, switched over to Twitter. Then the chorus happened.

Tim: You see? While the song’s certainly not bad up until that point, it does slip into “decent but unremarkable ballad” territory.

Tom: And it stays there for a while, too: there is a lot of build-up to each of the choruses, and I think it could do with not-boring-us-getting-to-the-chorus a bit more.

Tim: You’re not wrong there – the chorus brings the song a whole new, and arguably quite needed, lease of life, turning it into one I properly want to click along to and get excited about.

Tom: Mm. Not quite that effect on me, despite a certain air of familiarity. What worked earlier this week just doesn’t here, for me.

Tim: And yes, I’m aware it sounds quite similar to some other track, but I don’t want to spend time worrying about what song it is – I just want to spend time listening to this, as it’s great.

Ulrika – Oh Sally

“What the bloody hell is that?”

Tim: A track here from a US-based Swede, taking its cues from modern guitar dance stuff and, it seems, Cascada.

Tom: What the bloody hell is that?

Tim: That, my friend, is a very, very odd track, stylistically if nothing else, because it doesn’t really fit, well, anywhere.

Tom: There’s some complicated polyrhythm stuff going on it there, I think? The vocals and percussion both seem to be marching to their own drum, but it all comes together in the end.

Tim: It’s—WAIT, I’ve realised where it would fit perfectly. This probably won’t be seen as a compliment, and perhaps it isn’t, but this strikes me as being just right for a Dance Dance Revolution machine. The beats are all there, so’s a load of excitement, and the styling is entirely atemporal so it can run for a decade without seeming out of place.

Tom: As someone who’s played a lot of DDR in his life, I’d quibble with that — the rhythm isn’t necessarily suitable for that. But I’ll grant you, with the odd style, and what seem to be chiptune samples in there, the style’s right.

Tim: Like I said, I’m not sure it’s a compliment, and it’s almost certainly not what she was aiming for, but it certainly makes it good to dance to.