Molly Sandén – Like No One’s Watching

Tom: Our reader, Roger, sends this one in. “Molly sung this tonight,” he says, “it is quite good. I think you might like it.” And he’s BLOODY RIGHT.

Tim: Well, certainly wouldn’t be the first time.

Tom: That’s the first time in many, many songs that a long build has paid off so well. What an amazing chorus.

Tim: That really, really is – haven’t heard anything like it in a while.

Tom: Yes, the verse sounds a little bit like Lene Marlin’s Sitting Down Here, but that’s probably coincidence, and everything else makes up for it.

Tim: RUNNING OUT OF MUSIC, Tom.

Tom: You know what really got me? The second line of the chorus: not the “dance like no-one’s watching”: that’s fun, but ultimately it’s been heard a thousand times before. The second line, though: “make love like no-one’s judging”. That’s a really good bit of lyric-writing: take an old expression, turn it into something new and wonderful. Yes. That.

Tim: Cannot disagree with you at all, there, though to be honest it took me a couple of watches to get round to hearing the lyrics.

Tom: The hidden-camera shtick’s in the video’s a bit creepy, though. I’m sure it’s meant as “playful prank by boyfriend”, but man, is that ever horrible if you read it the wrong way.

Tim: Hmm, maybe. I do like the rest of it, though – not sure if my favourite reaction is the royal guard just checking his watch or the girl playing on her phone entirely not noticing her.