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[cabaretlights.livejournal.com]

Chaos
Artist: Tove Styrke
Album: S/T
Year: 2010
♥: Okay ----- so after questioning the boundaries of music with breakcore, last post, I figured I would swing to the opposite end of the spectrum this week. So -- have some SWEDISH POP!

I think this album was posted on indie_exchange back when it wasn't a request community (oh, those were the days), and I followed my standard procedure for interesting-looking albums with whose artists I am not familiar: download, unzip two months later, skim through once, add the standout tracks to my "Listen to Me!" playlist, and forget about it. Except -- this song, I didn't forget about.

The..god I have no idea what instrument it is. The synth, I guess, that makes the "dah dah dah-nah-nah" sound at the beginning -- it's what got me hooked and made me actually stop and listen to the whole thing. That little loop sounds like something I've heard ad infinitum at Saph (I tend to...refer to Saph a lot when making these posts, huh? ONLY because it had a pretty heady role in shaping my music taste circa '08). Ultimately, it's standard slightly-electro--pop -- but there is something in it (mainly the lyrics, coupled with the very pop-esque hook -- but then again, I love poppy hooks, so) that lends it something more than that.

Chaos, you've been my friend for quite awhile..
I can't escape from it
Love, babe, it eats me up alive.
My heart is evicted, [just a note, here: I've always heard it as "infected"; I don't know which I prefer.]
I gotta protect it,
Don't you dare try to break it.
WE CAN'T ESCAPE FROM IT,
WE HAVE TO FIGHT FOR IT.

Not much else to say: I love this song because it is just a Good Fun Song, BUT!
Even in pop songs, I love that idea of having to fight -- especially through (or for, depending!) the chaos. Life is a battle, always; that's not always (never?) a bad thing. I would hate to have an easy, standard life; songs like this somehow remind me of why.

Comments

[amethysting.livejournal.com]

1) YES, YES, that boop, boop, boop at the beginning and then the drum machine and then that sound...almost like some kind of horn that is made out of plastic or something...I LOVE IT. It sucked me in right away.

2) I hear infected too, well, the first time she says it. When she gets to the chorus again, I hear evicted. Um, wouldn't it be awesome if the first time she says infected and the second time she says evicted? We can pretend.

3) I love me that personification. Chaos and Anger as these maybe- not-always-so-welcome-friends.

4) I like how the song gets lighter and kind of dreamy when she sings the chorus, but what she is saying is quite strong. I love, "Don't you dare try to stop me/I'm gone."

5) Man, the Swedes know how to do pop. THEY JUST DO.

6) I like the way "fragile" sounds when she sings it.

7) Again, another example of how a song sounds really complex and intense and a thousand times lovelier with the headphones.

8) Related to the headphone comment: those wahahahahahs at the end...j'aime ca beaucoup.

[amethysting.livejournal.com]

Lists just work for these comments.

Or are we addicted to lists?

Haha.

[cabaretlights.livejournal.com]

bahahaha, I think probably BOTH...

Swedes really CAN do pop, oh my god! I'm still not sick of this song and I've been into it since November, and, well, Robyn...I think I found some Swedish pop on my downloading spree *cough* earlier today, so maybe that will find its way here!

ALSO, THE HEADPHONES, I KNOW RIGHT. Tomorrow's song is another stellar headphone one.

[amethysting.livejournal.com]

Man this song still totally kills me! Every time it comes on I'm like insta-happy.