Emmelie de Forest – Drunk Tonight

“A smooth transition from Rainmaker and its ilk”

Tim: As I remember, Tom, you’re not such a fan of Emmelie’s style.

Tom: True, although Rainmaker grew on me a lot after hearing it at Eurovision.

Tim: Oh, good. Well give this a go as well, the first from her new album, as I think you might be pleasantly surprised.

Tim: So, she’s ditched a lot of what made Emmelie Emmelie, and is now here with big beat ballads. A shame? Possibly, because there aren’t a lot of people doing what she was, and there are quite a lot of people doing this.

Tom: True, although this seems more like a smooth transition from Rainmaker and its ilk rather than a big change in direction.

Tim: On the other hand, there aren’t many people doing this as well as Emmelie seemingly does it, so if this sort of calibre song is going to keep coming forth I’ve not got much in the way of complaints. The instrumentation is powerful, and the vocals match that very well, still as strong as ever. The one moan I do have is the ending – I want it to blow out on high like yesterday’s track, not just drop off out of nowhere.

Tom: At least repeat-until-fade is a thing of the past now. Expect a resurgence around 2020.

Tim: Hmm. I fear that may be wishful thinking, but regardless: ending aside, love this.