Tim: Back to Denmark now, and the song that came a close second (first with the viewers), and has since convincingly won the YouTube views race. A gentle number for you, with pleasantly literal staging.
Tom: Brave choice with the extreme close-up there, but it paid off.
Tim: It’s staging like this (the suitcase, not the close-up, that is), and Belarus’s in 2010, that make me think of the missed opportunities that were had by Greece in 2013 when they could have lobbed bottles of Ouzo into the audience, or Latvia last year when they could have baked an actual cake on stage (though given the time available, probably just stuck some Mr Kipling pies in a microwave). But I digress. This song.
Tom: It’s good. Very good. Maybe too many repeats of ‘sui-ui-ui-ui-uitcase’, but I can’t complain about that. It’s rare that even the verse in a song is good enough that I stop writing and listen to it properly. All of this song is good: it’s not just about the hook.
Tim: Peaceful, calming and inoffensive, and I suppose kind of fitting for the “follow your dreams and stop arsing about at home” theme, though it wouldn’t hurt to give it a bit more oomph to hammer that in. Happy lyrics, happy music, cheerful all round. Nice work.
God, I love that Belarus moment.