LYKKE LI

Can you remember the setting and the situation when you wrote „I Follow Rivers“?

Yes, that song was one of the first when I started on my second album it was one of the first songs that I was jammin‘ on. I just bought an Auto-Harp that I was travelling with. So I started doing the chords and I felt like this could be something and I felt the melodies and the music and then it took me a really long time to finish the lyrics cause I did not really know what I was gonna say or what I even felt. So, I guess I started in Stockholm and then I got to Los Angeles and I found those…I mean I felt like it should be about water and obsession and how love can be kind of fatal. then I worked on that for a while and then I finished it in New York.

Quelle / Foto: Warner Music / Josh Olins
Quelle / Foto: Warner Music / Josh Olins

Liebe und Bosheit, Verführung und Verrat, Zuckerbrot und Peitsche – mit anderen Worten: LYKKE LI! Schwedens sympathisch-verrückte Indie-Pop-Amazone ist längst zurück.

„Die Musik ist mein Raum, in dem ich alles ausdrücken kann, was ich will. Ich setze die Grenzen, ich mache die Regeln.“, sagt Lykke. Und wir gehorchen gerne und lauschen andächtig.