Tim: Here’s a quick one for you from a Danish guy with an excellent stage name, and who is formerly of A Friend in London, with whom he represented Denmark at Eurovision in 2011. They split six months ago, now he’s out with this song and a slightly less silly haircut.
Tom: I remember them! They had a good song, and he had a decent voice. And a silly haircut.
Tim: Well he does at least still have the decent voice.
Tom: “Burning like supernovas” isn’t really a good metaphor, first because it’s ‘supernovae’, and secondly because they burn bright and fast and then collapse into tiny, relatively cold balls of nothingness. Just saying. Anyway, the song.
Tim: Not a lot happens in it at all, really, but I think it works well to demonstrate a nice range and a decent vocal ability – there’s plenty of powerful notes in there, and a decent melody backing it up.
Tom: There is, but once you realise that the piano is mostly just hitting two notes back and forth like a six-year-old, it does start to get a bit grating.
Tim: Right, it’s about as basic a piano ballad as you can get without reverting to Mary Had A Little Lamb, but he’s worth keeping an eye on. Especially when he’s chosen that name to go by.