Sky Ferreira or Inna: Which ‘One’ is ‘Amazing’?

In music, sadness and dancing seem to go together like peanut butter and marmalade: a combination which shouldn’t really work, but serves to do nothing but bring out the best in both elements.

Electropop has always known this, which is why so many of its best songs are also the most heartbreaking. And yer silly holiday dance pop has the sadness running through it like the lettering in a stick of rock. Inna and Sky Ferreira know it too, AND their two songs also compliment each other rather nicely.

So it is for THIS REASON ALONE – and not because there seem to be too many noteworthy songs around at the moment – that we shall examine their respective worthinesses together. OK? NOT because of space.

Inna’s song sounds like a hit because it already is a hit. Over on mainland Europe they can’t get enough of her holiday dance pop, in much the same way that some people can’t get enough of Basshunter. Over here, we’re probably a little more likely to spot the flaws in her language than collapse in a frothing heap at her feet. But that’s the British for you.

You don’t even have to go on holiday to feel it, either. One swish of those baked hissy synths, a strum of that guitar, and you can smell the sun cream and chlorine. And it is always nice when yer happy sunshiney dance music remembers that its job is bring the melancholy. Even when singing a song about how astonishing someone looks, Inna makes it sound like she’s turning it all on herself, as if their good looks are the only light she can see by, and without them, the entire world is all solid darkness.

Which might not seem like an obviously holiday-friendly thought, until you’re waiting at the airport to come home and you realise you’re going to have to sleep on a metal bench because your flight is delayed. It’ll make perfect sense then.

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