Tim: There is a CONTROVERSY surrounding this: it was due to be an entry in this year’s Dansk Melodi Grand Prix (yes, it’s tat time of year again)
Tom: Deliberate typo joke, or Freudian slip? You decide.
Tim: Huh. Hmm. Anyway, it had been pushed out on Facebook page briefly last summer, the Eurovision organisers got wind of it and said that broke rules, the Danish guys grudgingly accepted that and now there’ll only be nine songs for them to choose from.
Tom: That is technically a violation: they have to be all-new songs. Harsh, but it’s following the rules.
Tim: But does that matter? Would it have stood a chance of winning? LET’S FIND OUT!*
Tom: My instincts: “middle of the leaderboard”.
Tim: Perhaps. It’s a sort of Kelly Clarkson or Pink type of pop, really, and I like that.
Tom: I do too, but it doesn’t quite seem to reach that – but I can’t put my finger on why. It’s got all the component pieces, but somehow doesn’t quite fit together for me.
Tim: It’s a bit depressing if you listen to the lyrics, but that wouldn’t really have mattered because nobody ever pays attention to the words the first time they hear a track, although the ‘you’re going nowhere’ lyric does stand out a bit, I must concede.
On the other hand, the music’s a good fit for that, and if we’re honest the people of Europe in general do have quite a bit to be a somewhat down about right now*, so maybe it would have worked. OH WELL I GUESS WE’LL NEVER KNOW.