Alexander Rybak – Leave Me Alone

“I wanted to dance.”

Tom: Our reader Roger writes in with this, Eurovision winner Alexander Rybak’s new track. Roger writes: “I think this is (one of) his best after Fairytale. Really like those disharmonies.”

I was expecting to dislike this track, because I didn’t like Fairytale all that much. Instead, I wanted to dance, which is awkward because I was on a train when I wrote this.

Tim: That’s quite a different sound from what we all know. And not a bad one at all, actually.

Tom: I see what Roger means about the disharmonies – those odd fiddle-tweaks at the end of the instrumental parts. I think the song would be improved without them, but at the cost of being less memorable.

Tim: I don’t know, I’m with Roger and quite like them – they’re interesting, unusual and I think they work.

Tom: They act as an attention-grabber, and I can live with that when the thing they’re drawing attention to is this good.

Tim: They do, and it is this good.