One of the strangest developments of Boston dance party The Pill’s later years came each Friday night when I drunkenly spun Alina Devecerski’s “Flytta På Dej.” Across a crowded dance floor where no one spoke Swedish, the title lyric and rallying point of “Du måste flytta på dig” was interpreted as “You musta flick da pony.” People even made little flicking gestures with their fingers, though no one ever brought a pony to Great Scott.
Between that track and Devecerski’s debut single “Jag Svär,” we figured fame was right around the corner, following other acts from Sweden like Icona Pop and Kate Boy. It oddly never arrived, and Devecerski remained something of a hometown figure. Perhaps it was the singing in Swedish, perhaps it was a sound that was a bit harder than her pop-leaning contemporaries.
Either way, we have no idea why she isn’t a huge mega-star, and now the 31-year-old singer is back with a new anthem, ‘Armé,’ and it’s another aggressive electro banger that sends your fist into the air.
The track is available on the Swedish iTunes page, and you can listen to it via a new lyric video that dropped yesterday. The visuals kinda remind us of KMFDM’s “A Drug Against War.”
Keep flicking that pony, yo.
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