Karen Marie Ørsted and the Melody That Won’t Leave

MØ—Karen Marie Ørsted, full name on the passport—makes music with this particular quality where it seems simple right up until you realize you’ve replayed it four times without deciding to. The Danish singer has been tearing through clubs and venues for a couple of years now, and Walk This Way is the track that finally made the whole thing click for me. The song hooks you in about eight seconds and then just stays there, lodged somewhere behind the ear.

The video is mostly MØ dancing, which turns out to be an entirely sufficient premise. There’s this chaotic, barely-contained energy to how she moves—simultaneously rehearsed and teetering on the edge of falling apart—and it’s exactly the right register for a song like this. Denmark keeps producing pop artists who feel like they exist slightly outside the usual machinery, and she fits that pattern: immediate enough to grab you on the first pass, strange enough around the edges to make you want to stay. I’ve had this on repeat for three days and I’m not even slightly annoyed about it.