{"id":536238,"date":"2026-03-14T16:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T16:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/536238\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T16:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T16:36:16","slug":"lykke-li-shares-knife-in-the-heart-her-brutalist-nursery-rhyme-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/536238\/","title":{"rendered":"Lykke Li Shares \u201cKnife in the Heart,\u201d Her \u201cBrutalist Nursery Rhyme Anthem\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/5734-lykke-li\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lykke Li<\/a> has shared the latest single from <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/lykke-li-details-final-album-the-afterparty-shares-new-song\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Afterparty<\/a>. Listen to \u201cKnife in the Heart\u201d below. The song, she says in a press release, is \u201cmy brutalist nursery rhyme anthem\u2014the emo girl in me, fully unleashed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Li goes on to say, \u201cI had my son and his friend sing the choruses because the juxtaposition of their voices against the EBow just created such a powerful sonic landscape, somewhere I\u2019ve never really been before. A world totally collapsing in front of us and all we really have left is our humanity. My dream is to hear a whole football stadium chanting: \u2018This Life This Life is a Knife in the Heart.\u2019 To me, a pretty accurate description of what it feels like to be alive right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish artist has billed The Afterparty as her final album, according to her representatives. It is also her first in four years, following <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/lykke-li-eyeye\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EYEYE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lykke Li has shared the latest single from The Afterparty. Listen to \u201cKnife in the Heart\u201d below. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[328,49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-536238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-audio","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}