Olly Alexander draws influence from the best of British pop past and present for his UK Eurovision Song Contest entry, Dizzy. The track sees him team-up with contemporary hitmaker Danny L Harle for a synth-soaked pop delight that Olly is set to take to the stage in Malmo.
Olly shares: “I wrote the song last summer with Danny L Harle, we started off with the word ‘Dizzy’ because it just popped into my head and I liked it. I was thinking about fun things that could make you dizzy and I remember saying “dizzy from your kisses” so we built the song around that. Danny and I believe music should transport you somewhere magical and we wanted to describe this magical place in the song; a place of beautiful gardens, eternal flowers and time turning endlessly in an ecstatic loop.”
On the construction of the track, Olly notes: “We took the feeling of Dizziness and put that into the production, so there’s a lot of undulating arpeggios, lilting harmonies, and counter rhythms in the backing vocals.” The songwriter adds that the song drew influence from many UK pop greats: “The song is about feeling such an intense swell of emotion for someone they totally turn your world upside down and inside out, we were inspired by a lot of music we love from the 80’s like Stock Aitken and Waterman, Erasure, Adamski and of course Pet Shop Boys.”
Dizzy has certainly not disappointed and as a UK based site, we feel mighty proud that Olly will be flying the flag for us in Sweden in May.