Tim: New track off her who we first met last November, which happens to be the official song of Malmö Pride 2015. TUNE, therefore.
Tom: I’ll be very surprised if it isn’t.
Tim: Weird thing: despite being a completely original song, it sounds exactly like it could be a Cascada cover version of some older track, especially in the chorus.
Tom: Blimey, you’re right, but “Surrender” isn’t exactly the easiest song title to search for. I kept getting French songs.
Tim: It may just be the vocal stylings, but I think it’s some slight disjoint between the vocal line and the backing track you might get – as good as Truly Madly Deeply was, it’s blindingly obvious it wasn’t originally written that way. Is that the case here? I don’t want it to be, because its a good dance track and I don’t want to lay into it unfairly when it could just be me hearing it.
Tom: It’s good, although like other Cascada songs, it’s perhaps a bit… generic. There’s nothing here to set it apart: the melody is good but unremarkable, the vocals are competent, and the production is okay. The middle eight at least breaks it up.
Tim: It does, yes, and like I say, it’s a decent enough dance track – well, I’d put it as getting to Andra Chansen at Melodifestivalen decent, at least – and it’ll do as a celebratory song, but dammit I just can’t shake the feeling– WAIT HANG ON so it turns out it is a cover. More later.
Tom: Did you just do a cliffhanger ending to a blog post?
Tim: I KNOW RIGHT!!?!?!!?
Tom: Bloody hell.