Tuesday, June 3, 2008

same same but different

it started with the ark.

their singer wrote this song, charmed the pants of half of sweden, and got to represent us in the eurovision song contest two thousand and seven. i heart ola salo.



then, a year later, maia hirasawa did this:



you choose.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

so there i was, trying to write a comment, keeping in line with my perfectionist way of doing things, and failing miserably. but i'll post anyway, and what i was trying to say was that when i saw the live performance she gave a few hours before she did the one you've posted, i kinda sorta fell in love with the song. so i bought it, and now it resides firmly on my iphone.

so... yeah. i'll go with the second one.

mushi said...

i had a feeling you would choose maia over ola. the question is though, would her version be as good if the first one didn't exist? i think the contrast has a value in itself here.