"Silly Really" is a pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 song by Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 singer and composer Per Gessle

Per Gessle

Per Håkan Gessle is a Swedish pop singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonicist. He is the lead singer of the Swedish pop group Gyllene Tider and formed Roxette with Marie Fredriksson...

 from his album Party Crasher

Party Crasher

Party Crasher is the third English solo album by Swedish pop-rock singer and composer Per Gessle. This is his second worldwide-released English solo album under his own name after The World According to Gessle in 1997. Originally scheduled for December 3 in Sweden, but it was released on November...

. It was released as the lead single from the album on October 29, 2008. The song premiered at the Swedish radio-show MorronZoo, in the morning of October 24.

The new remix of "Silly Really" will be released on January 19 or 26. It's also supposed to be available in "all digital stores". The song is remixed by Dick Mixon.

Critical reception

Expressen

Expressen

Expressen is one of two nationwide evening tabloid newspapers in Sweden, the other being Aftonbladet. Expressen was founded in 1944; its symbol is a wasp and slogans "it stings" or "Expressen to your rescue", always on the reader's side....

's Andreas Nunstedt called Per Gessle "a pop genius" and described the song as a "happy love story where disco meets synthpop". Håkan Steen from Aftonbladet

Aftonbladet

Aftonbladet is a Swedish tabloid founded by Lars Johan Hierta in 1830 during the modernization of Sweden. It is one of the larger daily newspapers in the Nordic countries. Aftonbladet is owned by the Swedish Trade Union Confederation and Norwegian media group Schibsted, and its editorial page...

 describes "Silly Really" in a similar way ("a beat that feels like Blondie in a disco mood"). Even if "the single may not sound that modern", he said the song is a sure hit for the Swedish radio.

Music video

Video produced by STARK Film & Event

Director: Mikael Wikström

Producer: Björn Fävremark

Photo & cut: Torbjörn Martin

Torbjörn Martin

Torbjörn Martin is a Swedish film and music video director. His main work revolves around commercials and music videos. He has directed a feature-length documentary about Swedish rock band Mando Diao as well as a the dramatic short film No Come Down that premiered at Gothenburg...

Track listing

Swedish CD single

(50999 265629 2 6; October 29, 2008)

1. "Silly Really" – 3:40
2. "I Didn't Mean To Turn You On" – 3:35

Europe digital remix

(January 2009)

1. "Silly Really" (Right Into Your Bed Remix) (Remixed by Dick Mixon) – 6:31

Credits

• Vocals by Per Gessle & Helena Josefsson
  Helena Josefsson
  Helena Marianne Josefsson is a Swedish singer and songwriter. She is the lead singer in the band Sandy Mouche and has been singing in Per Gessle's projects since 2003. In February 2007 she released her first solo album, Dynamo.-Biography:...
  
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• Played and produced by Clarence Öfwerman, Christoffer Lundquist & Per Gessle.
• Recorded at Aerosol Grey Machine, Vallarum, between jan. & sept. 2008.
• Engineer: Christoffer Lundquist.
• Mixed by Ronny Lahti.
• Words & music by Per Gessle.
• Published by Jimmy Fun Music.
• Design by Pär Wickholm.
• Photo by Åsa Nordin-Gessle (credited as "Woody").

Charts

Chart (2008)	Peak position SWE Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association ....
"Silly Really"	1
"I Didn't Mean To Turn You On"	47