Emily: You know that song that goes “Love me love me,
say that you love me....fool me fool me, go on and fool me…la la la la la la la
la la…”? Even if I just sang the la-la part instead of actual words, if you
know any ‘90s music I’m sure you’d figure it out right away. But if I asked who
sang that song, I would be met with a long awkward pause followed by, perhaps,
“Spice Girls? S Club 7? Or was it B*Witched? No idea...but it’s so catchy!” It’s
actually by The Cardigans, a Swedish pop band, from their breakthrough album
First Band on the Moon, and the song is called Lovefool. You probably had no
idea about any of that, which is what’s happened to most one-hit wonders
throughout the decades. If you can’t stop happily humming Lovefool once you
hear it, though, I definitely encourage you to check out the whole album. It’s
filled with upbeat pop songs with a very mid-‘90s flair – even a pop-slow-jam
version of Black Sabbath’s Iron Man. And now I’m singing Lovefool again...those
Swedes sure know how to make some catchy music.
Favorite Tracks: Lovefool; Never Recover; Iron Man
Zack: Storytime: I was having a terrible day. When I
got home, I put this album on and it really took the edge off. I mean, it’s so
ridiculously infectious that you really can’t help bobbing your head back and
forth. The secret is that the songs are all designed behind the lollipop-sweet
vocals. Her voice is so sweet, I may have gotten a cavity. Terrible jokes
aside, it really is just that upbeat. All of that said, I’m still not
completely in love with this album. I’m in love with the lead singer, but the
album raised mixed emotions overall. This feeling is epitomized in their super
poppy rendition of Black Sabbath’s classic Iron Man. That really is a song
meant to be kind of dark and brooding. But there they go, poppifying the hell
out of it. They just really missed the spirit of the song overall, but it still
sounded very catchy. I couldn’t say that I disliked it, but it just felt kind
of unnatural. A lot of times, the Cardigans nail the right balance of sweet
indie pop and sincerity (Lovefool, Been It), but there are still those one or
two instances where it just doesn’t really feel right that prevent this album
from being the sort of classic, montage-ready albums that it should be destined
to be.
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