Tom: Our regular reader Roger writes: “I have not followed Swedish Idol 2011 closely… if I had I would have sent you this almost a week ago.”
You’ll probably spend the first verse thinking ‘I hope this kicks in a bit more’…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHocCTns8YU
Tom: …and then it does.
So her name is Moa. This is a song she wrote herself. It appears to kick most of this year’s British X Factor contestants into a cocked hat.
Tim: Yes. Although she does appear to be wearing the same trousers as kicked-off-in-sex-and-drug-fuelled-disgrace twat Frankie Cocozza, but I think that says more about him than her.
Tom: It must be quite a feeling, that – writing your own song with just a guitar, and then getting proper producers to add all the instrumentation and professionalism that makes it sound like a pop song. It’s not bouncy, it’s not dancey, but it is really rather tuneful.
Tim: Yeah, it’s nice – gentle sort of stuff, sung and played well enough to safely get you through to next week. Some of the judges scare me, though, but that’s hardly her fault.