Tim: Destan, a French boyband comprising Dean, Killian and Quentin, who’ve been around since last summer, and who presumably hoped Eurovision would be a platform for international success; that’s not to be, unfortunately, but they had a good go with this.
Tom: Ooh, check out the Big Piano Intro.
Tim: Big indeed. This was, clearly, written to be an international song – not only with some of the lyrics in English (switching mid-sentence at one point), but right through to filming the video in London —
Tom: I’ve been in that beigel shop.
Tim: — and a chorus that’s three quarters identical to the Canadian I Believe; I’m willing to stay away from yelling deliberate rip-off, though, as that’s a great feel-good build line that’d be hard for a songwriter to let go of however it occurred to them.
Tom: Aye, and it’s not bad as a Typical Boyband Ballad. I don’t think it’ll be leaping up the charts over here, though.
Tim: Probably not, no. We don’t like the French, after all. As for the band themselves, well, they’re Dean, Killian and Quentin who met in a recording studio and got put together by a producer who saw their potential. They’ve got one previously release, Vole, and, naturally with the instruments, they don’t like being called a boyband, seeing themselves closer to The Calling and, erm, The Script. Good luck with that, then.
Tom: They’ll have one of them fronting The Voice of France in no time.
Tim: Oh, see now I just want to listen to Malena Ernman. Let’s all listen to Malena Ernman.