Linda Bengtzing - Ingenting Att Förlora (CD)

All Music Guide

Linda Bengtzing's debut album comes over a year since the release of Alla Flickor, the irresistible pop hit which unexpectedly took her into the finals of the Swedish Melodifestivalen. She finished last, but the single was a huge hit anyway. Unfortunately the followup single Diamanter failed to make the same impression, and it took another stab at Melodifestivalen to grant the 32year old singer an album release. It was worth the wait, Jag Ljuger Så Bra was another huge hit, at Melodifestivalen and on the charts. One of the most intelligent, infectious pop hits of 2006, Jag Ljuger Så Bra finds Bengtzing listing all the reasons why she is so much happier without a recently departed boyfriend, before ending each chorus with a knockout refrain which translates roughly as "I'm a really good liar". The Swedes have always been masters of lyrical melancholia married to catchy melodies, think The Cardigans deceptively lightweight Lovefool and ABBA's The Winner Takes It All, and Bengtzing's hit ...is a classic example of this technique. If Swedish language music was accepted outside the Nordic countries, there is no reason to doubt Bengtzing could have had a massive worldwide hit on her hands. Read more Less