{"id":445295,"date":"2026-01-29T14:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/445295\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:14:10","slug":"post-your-questions-for-the-cardigans-nina-persson-pop-and-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/445295\/","title":{"rendered":"Post your questions for the Cardigans\u2019 Nina Persson | Pop and rock"},"content":{"rendered":"

After more than 30 years of melodious guitar pop, the Cardigans are returning to the stage \u2013 and their frontwoman Nina Persson will be joining us to answer your questions.<\/p>\n

The Swedish band instantly marked themselves out from the rest of both pop and alternative music when they broke through in 1995 with their album Life: sophisticated lounge-pop informed by bossa nova and disco (including sprightly Black Sabbath cover versions) was the very opposite of boorish Britpop or rave culture, and Persson\u2019s vocals \u2013 girlish yet faintly careworn \u2013 carried so much drama within them.<\/p>\n

Third album First Band on the Moon contained their first true hit, Lovefool<\/a>, which reached No 2 in the UK after framing Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes\u2019 romance as Romeo and Juliet in Baz Luhrmann\u2019s 1996 film adaptation \u2013 and has endured, now closing in on its billionth play on Spotify.<\/p>\n

Their next album, 1998\u2019s Gran Turismo, was just as sophisticated but switched into a darker-hued digital palette, as on singles My Favourite Game and Erase\/Rewind. Shortly after, Persson duetted with Tom Jones on a cover of Talking Heads\u2019 Burning Down the House, which was included on his mega-selling Reload album. Then there was another tonal switch, to lamplit folk-rock and brawny Americana on 2003\u2019s Long Gone Before Daylight; and another on 2005\u2019s Super Extra Gravity, full of bright pop-rock.<\/p>\n

There hasn\u2019t been another Cardigans album since, and Persson has ruled out the possibility after the departure of guitarist Peter Svensson, but the band reformed for live shows in 2012 and have sporadically toured since. Around the band, Persson has been an engaging vocal foil for Manic Street Preachers \u2013 their song Your Love Alone I s Not Enough reached No 2 in the UK singles chart \u2013 and Scottish folk singer James Yorkston, and as well as a 2014 solo album, she released two albums under the name A Camp, featuring various collaborators including her husband, film composer Nathan Larson.<\/p>\n

The Cardigans\u2019 next UK gig is on 27 June at London\u2019s Eventim Apollo, and ahead of it Persson will answer your questions about her life and work \u2013 post them in the comments below before noon on Monday 2 February, and we will publish her answers in the 6 February edition of the Film & Music section, as well as online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After more than 30 years of melodious guitar pop, the Cardigans are returning to the stage \u2013 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-445295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}