Måns Zelmerlöw – Should’ve Gone Home

“It’s not bad, but it’s not a Eurovision winner.”

Tim: It’s been around a couple of weeks, but here’s the video, in which Måns does a fairly decent job of singing parts of his song backwards.

Tom: Oh hey, it’s one of those Scandinavian lifts that has no inside door on it! I remember those from Helsinki. Sorry. Yes. He’s quite good as singing parts of it backwards, but he’s no Chris Martin.

Tim: You know, I’ve watched that video three times now, and I’m still trying to get the actual storyline figured out. Because he’s drinking his sorrows away etc., but I’d imagine this video (when played the right way round) would finish with him hooking up with whoever it is he shouldn’t been with, except he turns up at her place in his own car. Unless it starts out with him leaving who he’s hooked up with, in the middle of the evening, and he’s getting drunk before he does go home, though that’d be a bit weird.

Tom: You know that bit from Austin Powers 2 where he tries to work out the time travel and goes cross-eyed? That.

Tim: I don’t know – I even played it backwards to see what the woman was saying, but that was in Swedish so I’ve no idea.

Tom: That made me laugh a lot more than it probably should have. Well done there.

Tim: Oh, erm, thanks. RIGHT, music. First track from his next album, and hopefully an indication of what we can expect from that because it’s very good indeed. Strong chorus, slightly separated stylistically from the rest of the track in an excellent manner and…you know, much as I want to write about it I’m still thinking about that video.

Tom: Well, let me fit it in for you: it’s not bad, but it’s not a Eurovision winner. And why they’ve used what sounds like a cheap synthesiser to sample the last word of his chorus like it was a gimmick from the late 80s, I’ve no idea — it sounds so out of place. It’s not bad, but… well, it’s not quite the standard I’d hoped for.

Tim: Ah. Well, I’ve a slightly higher opinion, so I’ll close with: GOOD MUSIC, WELL DONE MÅNS.