This song by Swedish songstress, Vendela, is relatively ancient by music blog standards (the video appeared online sometime last year), but ever since I randomly stumbled upon it by searching for something else on Popjustice a couple of weeks ago, I've been listening to it so much that I just had to write something about it. Plus, it's never been an official single so I feel like enough people probably haven't heard it that it warrants mentioning again.
One of my favorite things about "Punk Rock Song" is that it's not a punk song. It's not even a pop punk song. It's not just dropping names and putting up a front pretending it's something it's not. This is a proper pop song through and through, and it knows that. It's not even really about punk rock. It's about love like most amazing songs are. It's about a sweet, gorgeous girl who is feeling something primal for her love interest. This lucky individual has got her so worked up that she feels her own voice isn't even adequate to express what she is feeling. She wants to growl, she wants to shout. But when she sings this song, all that comes out is this brilliant, infectious, bursting-with-joy pop song. The song's lyrics are ingenious, but that wouldn't mean anything without the exuberant production and Vendela's unique, bubbly voice (You can hear the smile in every word). She is quite literally incredible.
To sum it all up, this song is absolutely amazing. I love it so much that I would actually like to sing like Patti Smith for everyone involved in the making of this song (Tony Nilsson and Sharon Vaughn wrote it; not sure who produced it). I really hope that it is re-released as a proper single at some point this year. With a new video and some good promotion behind it, it could be huge. Or at least if this world decides to make any sense at all. And if the other songs on Vendela's debut album are anywhere near as great as this one, it will be a stone cold pop CLASSIC.
Here is the video of this bonafide pop supernova.
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