Tom: Our regular reader, Roger, writes in with this contender to represent Finland at Eurovision, which last Thursday got sent straight through to their final. “I actually was in Finland when they aired their first preshow,” he says. “This made me lift may head and smile… you can see the same reaction from the jury”.
Now, maybe it’s just my crippling fear of commitment rearing its head, but my general reaction to this track was NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE.
Tom: The track’s not bad, I guess, but oh my word, the lyrics. I can’t even write about them without my sentences ending with something like BACK UP BACK UP BACK UP GET OUT GET OUT.
Tim: In the chorus…what’s she singing in that repeating bit? The line after it is clearly “I’d do it for you”, but it really really sounds like something else.
Tom: I don’t know, because I’m too terrified by “If you run away, I’m going to find you anywhere.” EJECT EJECT EJECT.
Tim: That’s your main beef? Not “ah oh, ah oh uh ding dong”?
Tom: That doesn’t have terrifying, wedding-dress-wearing stalking overtones.
Tim: Fair point, and now you mention that line, the suggestion of doubt that it implies doesn’t quite match with proposing to her boyfriend whilst wearing her wedding dress. WHO DOES THAT?
Tom: I KNOW.