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Carlsberg don’t make Eurovision follow up albums…

…but if they did, it would probably sound a bit like Fairytales by Alexander Rybak.

Over on Boom Bang a Blog, my irregular look at the music and discography of previous Eurovision entrants continues. This week I’m listening to the winner of last year’s contest, Alexander Rybak, and his debut album Fairytales.

The album has a certain streak of innocence running through it, and ‘Funny Little World’ showcases that. The second single from the album has plinky guitars and wouldn’t sound out of place in a TV commercial for a certain supermarket and Jamie Oliver on his scooter with a beautiful girl waving to him from a thatched cottage in the countryside.

And then comes side two.

If this had been 1980, Fairytales would have been the sort of album you find in a dusty record shop, and after the first run of naïve numbers on side one, you’d flip the record over (kids, look it up on Wikipedia) and after listening to the back four, start wondering about what happened to Rybak in the writing process.

My money is that after doing the happy half, someone introduced him to the entire works of Morrisey.

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The full album review can be found at Boom Bang a Blog.

February 9, 2010; Eurovision, Links to my Articles;

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