| The Festival Princess If DumDum Boys are the Festival Kings this summer, Marit Larsen most definitely is the Princess. � Elvira Nikolaisen, we�re sorry. There�s something about the sparkling, real heartfelt joy that emerges from this small, young, but still mature girl from L�renskog on stage this summer. Her music is also mature, but still as light, happy and easy to love as a summer breeze in your face. The solo debut �Under the surface� has frequented the VG-charts a lot this year, and the songs work surprisingly well in a live format too. The songs demand the attention of the listeners, and ideally they could have been more focused about what happened on stage. Still, Marit Larsen manages to keep the mouths of the most ready-to-party Oslo-hipsters shut in the middle of the vorspiel hour on a Saturday at six in the afternoon.��� The credit for this is mostly her own, but the band - including Thom Hell, who is becoming increasingly attached to Marit, is rock solid after a summer full of gigs. Luckily, self confidence is not lacking, and right before the last song �Don�t save me� she gives us her most personal country-version of the M2M Billboard hit �Don�t say you love me�. And, to hit the last nail in the M2M-coffin once and for all: Right now, Marion Raven may pose naked with Meat Loaf as much as she likes, because we�ve got Marit Larsen right here the way we want her � as this festival summers number one supplier of feelgood-pop.������ � Marit is given a five out of six possible. |
| Article thanks to Halvard and www.vg.no |