Timo Räisänen - About You Now

We live in a world where the words ‘geek’ and ‘chic’ put together have come to represent an acceptable fashion statement. It’s all big glasses, ironic t-shirts and kitsch these days and it seems like the coolest thing you can possibly strive to be is to be completely uncool. But while the dossers who litter our streets are merely doing it as a result of hive mind mentality gone actually wrong, there are people that are genuine in their quest for uncoolness. One of them has a very difficult name to pronounce if you’re not scandinavian and can be seen in winged silhouette an inch or two above these words.

Timo’s take on Sugababes’ spectacularily uncool ‘About You Now’ does what most good cover versions do, which is keep the original’s main framework intact and add a sliver of new influence in order to make it sound fresh again. Thus the original’s infectious beat is still present but this time it’s garnished with more guitars and less pouting in godawful dresses. The result is a slice of easy-to-swallow guitar rock that will once again force a ludacrisly catchy chorus into your cerebral cortex until you’ve hummed it so much your lips have been filed down to bloody stumps. And that’s the sign of a bloody good pop song.

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