Tim: It’s the closest Melodifestivalen got this year to a female power ballad, so (slightly) FIRE UP THE WIND MACHINE!
Tim: And what a lovely tune that is.
Tom: Got to be honest: I zoned out half way through that and got distracted.
Tim: Some (probably including me if I was in a different mood, and apparently including you) may say yawn yawn snoozefest, but by the end it’s built up into sometime you can actually get into.
Tom: I went back and listened again, starting half way through – and I still started to lose focus. Maybe it’s because it doesn’t seem to leave one octave during that chorus – maybe it’s just that, despite all the energy in that final chorus, it ain’t that good a melody.
Tim: It got knocked straight out of the second Melodifestivalen heat, which isn’t a big surprise – Eurovision and associated competitions are generally a place for fun and jollity, rather than a big soulful number like this – but it’s still a decent number and elsewhere could probably have done fairly well. Oh well, it didn’t. Never mind.