[Thor Joachim Haga]

I’ve tried to give that RAYE song a couple of chances, but I simply can’t get into it. The cinematic end is pretty okay, but the rest leaves me cold. There’s no melody, it just stays in the same mid range throughout, and whimsically all over the place. But it was cute when Zimmer appeared on-stage to surprise her in one of her recent gigs. There are videos of this online.

That Udo Lindenberg thing, I was not aware of. That didn’t light me on fire either, sorry to say. Some nice string backdrop, but again the song is in that modern pop vein that doesn’t go anywhere. And each phrase ending on that annoying half note. I’m sure Lindenberg had more interesting stuff in the past.