Run Run

It’s hot in Berlin right now—the kind of heat where everyone gets stupid and talks about nothing but the weather. Fruit flies. Headaches. Sweat through your clothes. I’m at breakfast convinced that sangria is the solution. It won’t be.

Since nobody’s managing anything beyond weather talk, I’m dropping this instead: Those Dancing Days, five Swedish women with a song called Run Run from last year. It does what a summer track is supposed to do—nothing difficult, just something that plays while you’re trying not to think about the sun.

Linnea Jonsson is the singer. There’s something about her in the video that makes me want to run my fingers through her hair, and I’m admitting that plainly because I’ve never said that about a musician before. Crude, true, and that’s the moment.

The song itself is good. Simple and it works, which right now is all you need. The kind of thing that almost justifies drinking sangria at breakfast. Almost.