Tim: “Five Steps From Right”, apparently, but after a while you won’t care what this Swedish girlband are singing about.
Tim: I mean BLIMEY. I entirely was not expecting that chorus. What a change of direction, and what a fabulous direction.
Tom: If you listen carefully, the build for that chorus starts a full four lines earlier, right at the start of the pre-chorus. Well done.
Tim: They’ve gone full on Swedish House Mafia style with their dance bits, and as in almost all places it just works very very well – the vocals fit very well so they don’t just sound like a featured layer on top of the dance backing.
Tom: Ooh, that’s where I’d disagree: I don’t think the mix is quite right. The vocals are, if anything, a bit too prominent, and not quite in the right style to fit that backing. Or, rather, they are for a few years ago, it’s just that if we had a full-on Modern Big Pop Producer here, there’d be a lot more time spent juggling all the frequencies and instrumentation so it works perfectly.
Tim: You could be right, but then it’s be more a dance track than a pop track, and I’m guessing that’s not where this is meant to be – particularly evident when the middle eight drops back to the level of the first verse. It’s a risky move as it is, and I’m not entirely sure it works completely, but then when the strings come along and the energy jumps back up, well, all is forgiven really.
Tom: I think that’s a problem that could be solved, again, with a slightly different producer: but as we both know, I’m a sucker for a string section, so I love that final part.
Tim: Indeed. A WONDERFUL track.