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Rebecka Karlsson – Surrender

“It sounds exactly like it could be a Cascada cover version”

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.

Rebecka Karlsson – We Got The Night

“Kind of like an ‘I Love It’ with a whole lot of added melody”

Tim: We started the week off with a strong dance pop track; let’s continue it with an even stronger one, shall we? This one, to be precise, the sophomore single from Rebecka Karlsson, formerly of this year’s Sweden’s Got Talent (well, Talang Sverige). Press play below; you’ll thank yourself almost immediately.

Tom: Crikey, you’re right: that’s a bit good.

Tim: Indeed. It’s a funny thing, that hard to write slow-down noise they’ve put in every now and again there, isn’t it? Not quite sure what purpose it serves, aside from being somewhat distracting when it happens.

Tom: I quite like the effect. And I’m fairly sure I’d write it as “bwooooorp”.

Tim: Yeah, sounds about right. And as for the rest of it? Wow. Written by two of Le Kid, so it was always going to work at least fairly well, and it’s kind of like an ‘I Love It’ with a whole lot of added melody, and with a not dissimilar message – let’s get out there and party, basically.

Tom: It is: I’m not really sure about those lyrics; they name-drop a load of older songs, and that just seems to stand out like a sore thumb. I can’t disagree with your assessment.

Tim: And what a great song to party out to – you can get excited to it, you can shout to it, you can jump to it, you can get off with a stranger to it, anything you want basically.

Tom: Well, that went to an unexpected place.

Tim: It is ENERGETIC, and PUMPING, and EVERY SYNONYM. It’s one that’s going straight on the party playlist, and I’m fairly sure it’ll be a long time before it comes off.