We awoke this morning to find that Swedish television viewers last night had been getting very excited and very vocal about a new song by a new singer.
The girl to your right is Moa Lignell, and she’s been taking part in the latest series of Swedish Idol. In last night’s show, she performed her own composition ‘When I Held Ya’, and that’s what’s been getting everyone so worked up.
Why?…
Well because it’s really quite amazing! Lyrically and melodically, it’s a beautiful song. And its simplicity gives it an extra added layer of beauty on top of that. The melody of the chorus is delightfully infectious. It’s not difficult to see why viewers have fallen in love with it.
What is more difficult to work out though, is what’s best for Moa in the competition. If she goes and wins it, she’ll be obliged to release the standard winner’s single, and then will probably have to wait a little while to unleash ‘When I Held Ya’. So in actual fact, Moa herself, and Universal Music, are probably hoping that she gets knocked out of the contest ASAP – thus enabling her to release this as a single while last night’s performance is still on everyone’s minds, AND go into the studio to record that massive selling hit album she’s gonna have regardless of whether she wins the show or leaves next week.
The fuss;
She’s going to have a hard time following this up. I hope she’s got more songs up her sleeve, if she does, I think she could be really successful and not just in Sweden.
”Tell me about when you wrote it!” “I was talking to mum a bit about songwriting and I thought damn, I wanna write a hit song.”
Just like that, at age 16! Believe me, she can do it again.
However, I doubt that she can match this performance in the competition, even though she has done some nice covers too, like this one. http://www.tv4.se/idol/klipp?videoid=2074114&treeId=3020205
And luckily, she is a bit too low-key on stage to win the whole thing.
Proud to be from Sweden and a Moa faaan!