The Swedes Have it

Seriously, how come I always love Swedish pop? How do they get crack into their music?

My friend Dainon and I like to trade CD's and this track by Peter Bjorn and John featuring totally intoxicating vocals by Victoria Bergsman is so far the standout of his latest round. The first time through I thought, "well this is a fun!", the second time I thought, "oh, well it's really sexy too", then the lyrics started to seep into my brain and now I pretty much love it. First of all, I'm a total sucker for boy/girl dialogue in a song. And this one starts with a worry anyone with a little relationship baggage can understand

if i told you things i did before
told you how i used to be
would you go along with someone like me
if you knew my story word for word
had all of my history
would you go along with someone like me

and then she responds

i did before and had my share
it didn't lead nowhere
i would go along with someone like you
it doesn't matter what you did
who you were hanging with
we could stick around and see this night through

alright, so they are kinda diggin' each other then which is cool. So you know where this is going

and we don't care about the young folks
talkin' bout the young style
and we don't care about the old folks
talkin' 'bout the old style too
and we don't care about our own faults
talkin' 'bout our own style
all we care 'bout is talking
talking only me and you

she gets little nervous about how this might turn out

usually when things have gone this far
people tend to disappear
no one will surprise me unless you do

but she shouldn't be because he doesn't appear to be going anywhere

i can tell there's something goin' on
hours seems to disappear
everyone is leaving i'm still with you

all together now...

it doesn't matter what we do
where we are going to
we can stick around and see this night through

So besides lyrics that perfectly describe why there is nothing in the world that is as fun as a new relationship, there is also whistling! and fantastic drums! and it's discreetly sexy! I could not possibly have a bigger crush on anything than I do on this song right now.