Tim: Danish, for “Friends Forever”. That’s nice, innit?
Tom: Ah! That’s a coincidence. Our Brazilian reader, CB, sent this in yesterday. I’m guessing it’s not a cover?
Tim: Believe it or not, no.
Tim: Yes, as it happens, it is nice, both with the music and because it really is just about friendship. It’s refreshing to have a track that acknowledges that not all two-person relationships are romantic, and as the (entirely predictable and unemotional) video shows, this is exactly what this is.
Tom: Agreed. It’s still rare, even now, to find a smash-hit pop song that isn’t about love somehow. Wake Me Up’s the first one that comes to mind.
Tim: A celebration of two people who’ve just been BFFs throughout their life. I thought it came across a bit aggressive for a pleasant sentiment like that, to start with, but then I checked the lyrics and it turns out the chorus is about the relationship standing strong through all sorts of challenges (“they do what they want, we’re like water over a fire”) so it actually works very well – appropriate aggression with a whole amount of enthusiastic and celebratory energy.
Tom: And musically, it stands up too.
Tim: It does indeed. Lovely stuff.