billie the vision and the dancers - queen of the dancefloor

i heard this one first through national radio station p3 a few months ago and i took a liking to it from the first listen but it sort of left my conciousness. until two week ago when i heard it again and my heart leapt with joy again over this song.

i had no idea who this band was until they showed up in 2010 at national radio event "musikhjälpen", which is the equivalence of the dutch show "serious request". i found out later that they'd been a successful indie (in the truest meaning of the word) band and they'd been a fixture of the swedish indiepop scene since '04. they also found big success in spain after spanish brewery estrella damm used of their earliest songs "summercat" in one of their adverts.

i had heard of their songs since i've listened to p3 a long time and i know of "i miss you" but i didn't catch on to it. i just thought that was a nice song but it was one of many good songs in rotation at the time. anyhow, back to this song and the way the thing that grabbed my attention on the first listen was of course the intro.

it's this picked guitar and a lovely violin that then kicks right along into a nice jangly rhythm. which is quite catchy and describes the need to dance out in a club or bar and feeling like queen of the dancefloor. on an instinct i would say that it's a dance song for the indie floors but it might as well be any room as it can easily transcend that.

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the interesting part is that when i first "queen of the dancefloor" another song came in my mind because it was also a swedish pop song about dancing without a typical four on the floor drum machine beat. it was released a few months earler and it probably had to do with the song being on rotation on p3 as well, but it was the comeback single of the band bob hund.

their song is called "harduingetmankandansatill?" and apart a vague link of having dancing as topic and also including a violin, they are quite different. but they are both great songs and i love them both in their own way. the charm of "harduingetmankandansatill?" (translation: "do you have anything one can dance to?") is that it describes the notion of dancing in a much more primal way.

also since it somewhat pokes fun at the infamous dj request "hey dj, do you have me/anyone can actually dance to".

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