september - we can do it

first time i heard about swedish dance project september was when i saw the video on swedish music channel ztv and they played "la la la (never give it up)". it was pushed as a potential hit song by the staff and it was a nice song that i eventually bought the single for it. i eventually found out that project was in this state was jonas van der burg on production and petra marklund singing.

while it was a good song and i still like it, i found the next single to be better. like the first song i saw the video for "we can do it" on ztv but unlike that it wasn't as good. even though the video for "la la la" was just marklund walking around a sunny stockholm morning with a microphone connected to a speaker with a really long wire.

never mind that since i'm focusing on the music and this song had a better hook and was musically more appealing. when i first heard the s.o.s. band's 1980 hit "take your time (do it right)", after hearing "we can do it", it was an oh snap moment.  the funny part is that i knew that the chorus is actually a lift since it's listed in the credits on the single.

when i say that it's musically more appealing, i may be talking out of my arse since both singles are cousins aurally even though they are different else wise. the sound is this dancepop thing where it's clean cut house with the all focus is up top since the rhythm section tend to be standard.

the difference between the former single and this one was that "la la la" was driven by this strumming guitar and a string section. "we can do it" kept the guitar to a more nile rodgers sort of thing but not really and the song was musically more keyboard driven and the bassline wasn't just this one note offbeat thing.

i also bought the three following september singles and have always been quite into the project. i thought it was well earned when marklund gained fame in the uk & the us with the breakout single "looking for love". her international fame came after she changed recordlabels and unlike stockholm records, catchy tunes decided to try to go outside of sweden with success. later on she also became a household name here in sweden after she appeared on "så mycket bättre, the swedish version of dutch tv-show "the netherland best singers".

all of love to petra marklund and all love for this song.

buy here (itunes)

note: i'm not sure if the original version is available outside of swedish territories since on 7digital and uk itunes you can only find the re-recorded version which i don't think is as good.