The official promotion video for Lene and Alexander With's joint single, "Worth It", is just around the corner. The video was recorded on December 12 - 13, and while we are waiting we should in a timely manner be reminded that not everyone likes the song, just as this review by Dagbladet is an example of.

Pleasant until the effaceable

(Published by Dagbladet, October 21, 2009)

Idol-winner back from the ruthless oblivion with aid from Lene Marlin.

SONG: Kurt Nilsen and Venke Knutson once did a nice, tidy, tweely coziness-and-hugz version of Ryan Adams' "When The Stars Go Blue", which was health-threatingly anaemic and intolerable unimaginative. And therefore something of a low point when it comes to synergy- and career planning within the Norwegian pop duet special field.

This is a fine measure for the strategic manoeuvre we are faced with here, which is about lifting a forgotten Idol-winner back from the ruthless oblivion with the aid from the once enigmatic Lene Marlin.

Unlike Nilsen/Knutson, who made a beautiful song become somnolent, "Worth It" is somnolent pop craftmanship in itself, a sort of swelling, sob-repressed, ballad thing with one of the more pale refrains the listeners of commercial Norwegian radio will be exposed to in the coming weeks.

In many ways a classic radio ballad, chemically purified of hair, nobs and other signs of life, and as such pleasant listening until the effaceable.