Or (11): The drama.the catchiness.and the refreshing message behind the song too! I adore the “am I a bad boy maybe, am I a sad boy let’s see” section.I imagine this would explode in a gay bar (11): This might be the song that solidified me as an Alcazar fan. What a song, (9.5): Cannot fault this too much, lovely all the way Ace (7.2): ‘Tragedy’ (10): That is such an Ace of Base chorus. It’s just not memorable or dramatic enough for me, so it falls flat and I would have voted for ‘15 Minuter’ (10): “Don’t need no babysitter / No, I am not that bitter” is such a great line. The intro is seriously (10): The key changes, the drama, the banjo!!! Truly pop Shoebox (5): Oh look it’s my least favourite of their Melodifestivalen entries. Doesn’t quite fit with the rest of the album, but still (10): I prefer Sarah Dawn Finer’s version if I’m being completely honest, but this is still nothing less than a 10. “Not A Sinner Nor A Saint” later became the group’s first ever #1 single in (10): My favourite of their Eurovision attempts. Ha!Suffer.gifĪftonbladet called Magnus and Andreas “Sweden’s answer to Siegfried and Roy”! Fortunately nobody was mauled by a tiger. On the other hand, Alcazar received 62 points from the jury and earned 110 points in the televote, leading them to the bronze medal. However, in the final itself, Barbados only received 7 points from the jury and no televote points, ending in 10th out of 10th place. Alcazar had to advance to the final via the Viewers’ Choice round, whereas Barbados qualified directly.
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& Devotion-sampling "Crying at the Discoteque," and the cheeky "Sexual Guarantee." But the focus will undoubtedly and deservedly be on the new material, which apart from some occasional generic filler, is pure bubblegum pop at its best.For those of you keeping track of Swedish band-hopping, Barbados also appeared in Melodifestivalen 2003 for the first time since Magnus left to join Alcazar. The bonus Now and Then disc is essentially just their previous greatest-hits disc Dancefloor Deluxe, (only "Here I Am" is omitted), with 13 tracks cherrypicked from their first two studio albums, Casino and Alcazarized, the highlights of which are the Genesis/ Diana Ross mash-up "The World We Live In," the Sheila B. "Funkytown" is a pointless retread of the 1980 Lipps, Inc disco classic, while their tribute to ABBA, "Thank You," is far too schmaltzy, even by their ridiculously high threshold. "Harlem Nights" is a toe-tapping stab at 1930s swing whose jazz handclaps, cheeky brass riffs, and singalong chorus would fit comfortably in the Chicago musical From Brazil with Love is a kitschy bossa nova pastiche which sounds like an alternative theme to 1980s The Love Boat, while "Put the Top Down," the only track to slow down the tempo considerably, is a summery, acoustic, midtempo lament to a carefree holiday which echoes the happy-go-lucky pop of Ace of Base. However, there are occasions when they veer outside their comfort zone. But the album's highlight comes courtesy of the Pet Shop Boys-penned "Baby," a glorious slice of understated and melancholic dance-pop similar to "The Loving Kind" they wrote for Girls Aloud, which reveals Alcazar's previously hidden sensitive side.
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"We Keep on Rockin'" is an uplifting blend of Chic-style strings and pulsating disco beats which could have been a dancefloor staple at Studio 54, "Burning" is a more contemporary club anthem which recalls the filtered house of fellow countrymen Star Pilots, while their relentlessly energetic Melodifestivalen entry, "Stay the Night," deserved to grace the Eurovision stage more than the operatic Malena Ernman number it lost out to. Despite its colourful '80s hip-hop cover art, Disco Defenders - a double album with the second disc separately titled Now and Then - shows that although the lineup may have changed, their trademark sound certainly hasn't.
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Four years after announcing a hiatus, they return with a new vocalist in tow, Lina Hedlund, for their first album since the departure of founding members Annika Kjaergaard and Magnus Carlsson.
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Uber-camp trio Alcazar are one of the few schlager acts to have any impact outside of their native Sweden, having scored a series of European hits in the early noughties with their infectious brand of flamboyant pop.