Laura Voutilainen – Mä En Kestä

“It’s all a bit of a mash of genres, isn’t it?”

Tim: Remember Stereo Love?

Tom: As ever, no.

Tim: Yes, you do. No-one can ever truly forget Stereo Love.

Tom: [listens] I remember one very specific part of Stereo Love.

Tim: Good, because so does Laura, and she wants to bring it back.

Tom: Oh, hey, it’s an accordion sample! That’s not at all tired by now.

Tim: Cynicism aside, though, I actually really like this. Yes, there’s the style rip-off (though after eight years I suppose we could be getting into homage territory), but there’s also that chorus, which really took me by surprise when it first came along, sounding like it does as though it’s been shipped in from another genre.

Tom: For just a bit of it, yes: and I’d like to say a few words in favour of that pre-chorus, too, which almost makes up for the exhausted-sounding middle eight. It’s all a bit of a mash of genres, isn’t it?

Tim: It is, and I just wasn’t expecting it – as I saw it, we’d have the accordion providing the whole chorus, and so to hear that wonderfully schlageresque sound come in was an utter delight, and brought a massive smile to my face. I’m not sure it entirely works – like I said, it’s from a completely different genre – but I’ll take it while it’s there.