Swedish (born in Uruguay to Uruguayan parents, though) singer Andrés Esteche, a Fame Factory graduate, may be best known for his two Melodifestivalen entries (and maybe the song "Bad Temptation"...he apparently also had another single in 2006, "Ängel," which was in Swedish and peaked at #7). By far the better of the two was "Just Like A Boomerang," but it took fifth in its semifinal in 2003 and therefore failed to make it to the final. One year later, the not-as-good "Olé Olé" would take him to the finals and ninth place (incidentally, I like his version of "Tango Tango" more than Petra Nielsen's, which took fourth). Pandora was in newspapers just recently for her accusations of plagiarism directed at Scooch's "Flying The Flag," but let's try to forget that, as she's made some great pop--especially of the dance-pop sort--over the years. The following song finds them teaming up for something not quite from either of their respective genres, or at least the genres they're associated with.Summer Rain--this track is the exact opposite of what I would expect a collaboration between these two artists to be like--I know Pandora from her dance tracks and Andrés from his upbeat Latin-influenced (just in case titles like "Olé Olé" hadn't given that away) entries. "Summer Rain" though, is a smooth, relatively simple mid-tempo, maybe down-tempo song; if I had to sum it up in one word, it would definitely be "chilled." Perfectly so. Even without the title, it's definitely a spring or summer song, too, although you could probably use some Hilary Duff "Come Clean"-esque imagery, where it's not winter but sort of feels like it, or maybe feels like winter is melting away, if you wanted to.
I don't actually know anywhere that is selling Andrés Esteche's debut album, Just Like A Boomerang, which has "Summer Rain," but I do know you can get it on the compilation album Fame Factory Summertour 2003, which you can buy here (physical).
Next up: Swedish singer Sonja Alden's album came out this week, so probably something from that--that was almost today's post, but I didn't want to rush writing about it. As of now, though, I wouldn't say everyone should run out and buy the whole thing.
