The setting is VERY eighties with a Tron-esque grid of colour. the guitarist, Laurits, is already on stage on his plinth while Jesper strides on confidently during the intro, Laurits is blond and wears a silver jacket and blue satin trousers, Jesper has a violet jacket, white vest and grey trousers. The backdrop changes throughout the song, going from a moving grid type affair to a strobing pulsating triangle. Jesper does a bit of dancing during the song, although nothing highly choreographed and during the last minute he comes off his podium and dances around the rest of the stage and singing to the camera.
The song begins with a strong eighties guitar/synth intro and feels genuinely retro rather than a modern take on the genre. The first verse does not have a typical form or rhythm to it and you can find it hard to memories or have feelings towards. The pre-chorus however has a much more memorable sound but comes and goes too quickly. The chorus is a little underwhelming and doesn't seem to more the song onto a different plane from where it has already gone - in fact the short instrumental after the chorus has more character than the chorus itself. After a shortened second verse, we go into another pre-chorus/chorus combination. After this the song seems to loosen up a little more into a bridge and final chorus. The song then ends with a final burst of instrumental.
The duo of Jesper and Laurits has been together for around 4 years although it looks like they have only been releasing music in the past 2 years. Laurits has some solo music available on spotify and is also the lead singer of another Danish band called The Grenadines. Jesper is best known in Denmark as an actor, including a lot of comedy and satire roles. The band seem to take themselves seriously as a band who make 80s style music, although many have wondered if this is some kind of 'act' or 'joke' because of Jesper's background.
One of the things that is slightly tricky about this liver national final performance is that they used a live band during the show, something that won't be used during Eurovision itself. Having listened to the studio version, the backing track is a more coherent and bring through that 80s feel. The big problem is that this song goes nowhere. even of it was in English the tune is not particularly memorable and the song as a whole is really nothing special. The national final performance with the podiums felt rather odd and at first I though it may have been a COVID intervention until Jespers danced behind him on his! The outfits are absolutely terrible and the whole stage could do with filling up with other instrumentalists or dancers. I don't see this troubling the scoreboard.
SONG - Øve os på hinanden" (Practice on each other)
WRITING CREDITS - Laurits Emanuel
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