Monday, May 2, 2011

New music: Lykke Li ? Sadness Is A Blessing

Simmering tension, vodka, a starring role for Stellan Skarsg�rd ? it's another deeply brooding affair

Having relentlessly toured her critically acclaimed debut album, Youth Novels, Lykke Li fled her native Sweden and moved to LA where she trained to be an actor. It's a penchant for inhabiting other characters that's most obvious in the video for the second single from her follow-up album, Wounded Rhymes. Co-starring Stellan Skarsg�rd (whose career encompasses roles in Good Will Hunting and Breaking The Wave as well as Mamma Mia!), it's a brooding affair, all simmering tension, vodka shots and improvised dance moves. There's a palpable sense of foreboding that permeates the near seven-minute-long video, a state that perfectly suits a song saturated in misery. "Sadness is a blessing, sadness is a curse, sadness is my boyfriend, oh sadness I'm your girl" runs the chorus as Phil Spector-style drums bang and crash in the background, Li's sometimes stilted vocals drenched in emotion. Like all the best videos, the audience are plonked into the narrative mid-storyline, with no clue who has done what, what's been said and why on earth everyone's staring at the couple in the first place.


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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/apr/29/new-music-lykke-li-sadness

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