Ditka — NE BODI KOT DRUGI

The Slovenian singer-songwriter known as Ditka is broadly charting today across 119 country and platform charts with this title track from her 2013 album — a record built around an unusual premise. Per her official site, the album pairs five settings of poems by Slovenian poets — Feri Lainšček, Tone and Marko Pavček — with five original songs in English. Ne bodi kot drugi belongs to the literary half: its opening verse requests wildflowers, a mountain of gnomes, a star bearing the singer's name, and a song with a bizarre refrain — which is, in itself, the song delivering exactly that. Musically it sits in the space between Slovenian folk melody and spare pop arrangement, the kind of track that travels through playlists without announcing itself.