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Welcome!- Thank you so much!
Darin, you have released new music and you could say that's why you're here.- Exactly!
This time it's in Swedish.- Yes, exactly!
Why?- It wasn't obvious, for me to write in Swedish. I have never written in Swedish before. So I tested the most. After I had been in the "Så mycket bättre" I was eager to sing in Swedish. But I write songs myself, so I wanted to write the lyrics myself. But it took two years, until I did something about it. So I tested and it flowed pretty well. But I didn't know if it was good or not. I needed it to play it for friends, and people I work with. To get a confirmation if it was good enough. I was curious "what do you think", "how is this"? So I got very good response and then I went on and it felt very natural.
What it difficult to think in a different way when it comes for examples, the text/ music etc.?- That part wasn't the hard part. The hard part was that it became so different when you wrote in Swedish. Because it felt so extradited somehow. It's also easy (compared to English) that it gets a little cheesy (if you don't write in the right way). Because it gets extradited somehow and for me it becomes personal when I write. So it was a "fine line", not to make it too much but still it should be personal without it becoming too much somehow.
Besides the language, how different is this album (being released this fall) from your previous albums that you've done?- Besides the language, it's a very different style than what I've done before.
In which way?- Musically! The entire genre feels more organic and it's because lately I have been listened a lot to 60-70's music. So I wanted to do something like that, but modern. And still keep my pop melodies but make it more organic. We recorded "Ta mig tillbaka" and the other songs completely, live - with musicians, at the Atlantis studio. We were there for two weeks, and we played with real instruments (with live musicians). So it was a cool thing, in a completely different way.
Autobiographical lyrics (Ta mig tillbaka), why?- It's a "singer-songwriter" kind of a song and usually those songs it's about the 60-70's - what you listened on, at that time. I sat and listened to Bruce Springsteen ... I want to do that thing, but tell you about my childhood and my time. I grew up in the 90's, late 80-90's. So I wanted to refer to that such of stuff. So I got "cycled around and hummed on Billie Jean", played 8-bit Super Mario, The Water Festival ... that kind of stuff.
How did you choose what you would have in the song?- We sat down and just brainstorm. I wrote together with Ollie Olson and David Zacharias. One sat with the guitar, the other with the piano and I sat with the computer and wrote the lyrics. So we just sat down and brainstorm, "what did you in the 90s?" Then it was those stuff, I listened to my first album. "Who?" Whitney, Michael. "What did I do?" I played a lot of tv-games. You were playing in the woods with your friends, you knocked on the door ... and today it's more Skype, iPhones etc.
Darin, you have released new music and you could say that's why you're here.- Exactly!
This time it's in Swedish.- Yes, exactly!
Why?- It wasn't obvious, for me to write in Swedish. I have never written in Swedish before. So I tested the most. After I had been in the "Så mycket bättre" I was eager to sing in Swedish. But I write songs myself, so I wanted to write the lyrics myself. But it took two years, until I did something about it. So I tested and it flowed pretty well. But I didn't know if it was good or not. I needed it to play it for friends, and people I work with. To get a confirmation if it was good enough. I was curious "what do you think", "how is this"? So I got very good response and then I went on and it felt very natural.
What it difficult to think in a different way when it comes for examples, the text/ music etc.?- That part wasn't the hard part. The hard part was that it became so different when you wrote in Swedish. Because it felt so extradited somehow. It's also easy (compared to English) that it gets a little cheesy (if you don't write in the right way). Because it gets extradited somehow and for me it becomes personal when I write. So it was a "fine line", not to make it too much but still it should be personal without it becoming too much somehow.
Besides the language, how different is this album (being released this fall) from your previous albums that you've done?- Besides the language, it's a very different style than what I've done before.
In which way?- Musically! The entire genre feels more organic and it's because lately I have been listened a lot to 60-70's music. So I wanted to do something like that, but modern. And still keep my pop melodies but make it more organic. We recorded "Ta mig tillbaka" and the other songs completely, live - with musicians, at the Atlantis studio. We were there for two weeks, and we played with real instruments (with live musicians). So it was a cool thing, in a completely different way.
Autobiographical lyrics (Ta mig tillbaka), why?- It's a "singer-songwriter" kind of a song and usually those songs it's about the 60-70's - what you listened on, at that time. I sat and listened to Bruce Springsteen ... I want to do that thing, but tell you about my childhood and my time. I grew up in the 90's, late 80-90's. So I wanted to refer to that such of stuff. So I got "cycled around and hummed on Billie Jean", played 8-bit Super Mario, The Water Festival ... that kind of stuff.
How did you choose what you would have in the song?- We sat down and just brainstorm. I wrote together with Ollie Olson and David Zacharias. One sat with the guitar, the other with the piano and I sat with the computer and wrote the lyrics. So we just sat down and brainstorm, "what did you in the 90s?" Then it was those stuff, I listened to my first album. "Who?" Whitney, Michael. "What did I do?" I played a lot of tv-games. You were playing in the woods with your friends, you knocked on the door ... and today it's more Skype, iPhones etc.
