Tim: Rbecka is new from Sweden; her actual name is Rebecka, so I can only assume she dropped the e to be more distinctive. Or possibly just to be annoying for anybody with some form of auto-correct switched on. Anyway, here’s her debut, with quite the chorus.
Tom: As some who does motion graphics for part of my job, that lyric video is… frustrating.
Tim: It is, isn’t it?
Tom: I don’t know why they’ve done it in such a nauseating, early-90s-CGI-camera-moves way, but I wish they hadn’t. Anyway. The music.
Tim: And no matter what she thinks, I’m very glad she didn’t surrender a long time ago, because presumably if she did we wouldn’t have this song to listen to and that would be a massive shame. The verses on their own are decent enough, but that chorus is just fantastic and wonderful and all sorts of other positive adjectives.
Tom: I don’t quite hear it in such a positive light myself: it’s good, yes, but it fails both my tests of being a Really Good Pop Song: do I immediately want to hit replay? And can I remember any part of it after one listen? Sadly… neither of those works for me.
Tim: Oh. See, I’m saying yes to both of those. It is a bit weird the way we have an extra verse coming out of middle eight, as it slightly cuts down on the momentum of the song, but I don’t really mind that; also in the “odd but I’m not too bothered” is the pronunciation of “whisper” in the chorus. Those niggles aside, though, I can’t get enough of this song. MORE PLEASE.