Marcel Winatschek

Louder Than It Has Any Right to Be

Lenka is what you’d get if Kate Nash and Lily Allen had a baby together, raised her in Australia, had her host a Saturday morning children’s TV show called Cheez TV, and then let her loose in Los Angeles with a recording budget. She was born in 1978, she has colorful nails, and she makes the kind of loud, sweet, unapologetic pop that you’ll dismiss before it’s finished and be humming all afternoon.

The song is called The Show, and it’s exactly what it sounds like—three minutes of relentless good cheer, a melody that refuses to leave, the kind of thing that plays at the end of a movie when everyone has learned their lesson. Whether that’s a compliment depends entirely on your current mood and blood sugar level.