Tim: In case it’s left your mind in the five months since Melodifestivalen, HELLO HI! Here’s a third track from Molly, Polly, Holly (members have changed, names stay the same).
Tom: That’s an easy thing to make a joke about it, but, hell, there’s plenty of bands who’ve done that in the past, particularly in the weird Eurobeat-slash-J-pop twilight world they’re inhabiting.
Tim: Well, anyway, press play and enjoy the fact that they’ve calmed down a bit.
Tim: Haha, no of course they haven’t, so quite where that first verse came from I’ve no idea. I also have no idea where that banjo in the middle eight came from, but hey, now that Avicii’s stopped with that someone else might as well pick it up, right?
You know what? I don’t think this is a truly terrible song.
Tom: You’re right. Despite your joke earlier, this is actually a bit calmer: the instrumentation in that last chorus could come from a much more serious pop act, even if the vocals over it are ridiculous. (The “like, whatever” bit isn’t even ironically good.)
Tim: It’s certainly better than their sophomore track Cherry Gum, with the lyrics being a vast improving on the cherry popping nonsense, and laughable banjo (as in I actually did laugh when I heard it) aside, this is not an awful dance track. It’s very, very heavily towards the bubblegum end of the dance spectrum, but that doesn’t mean it’s bad.
Tom: Yep, I’ve happily listened to much worse. This could go on a playlist.
Tim: It knows what it wants to do, and it does it well – I can’t fault it that.