{"id":555390,"date":"2026-07-18T02:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/555390\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T02:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:39:13","slug":"sigrid-on-her-love-of-pop-and-rock-ive-been-somewhere-in-between","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/555390\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigrid on her love of pop and rock: “I’ve been somewhere in between”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sigrid<\/a> has spoken to NME about leaning into her love of rock, as well as sharing her favourite new albums. Check out the full video interview above.<\/p>\n

The Norwegian pop phenomenon was speaking to NME backstage ahead of her performance at Mad Cool 2026<\/a>, where she\u2019d been partying for much of the week with her sister who lives nearby in Madrid.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw Zara Larsson<\/a> yesterday \u2013 epic!\u201d she told of her time at the Madrid bash\u2019s 10th anniversary. \u201cIt was the best show I\u2019ve seen in a long, long time. She was so, so talented. Her whole production was great. We saw Lorde<\/a>, she was sick, really, really good<\/a>. That\u2019s all we had time for, then I\u2019m gonna see my family.\u201d<\/p>\n

As well as Sigrid\u2019s Spanish language skills, conversation then turned to the Norway vs England World Cup knock-out match, and her pride in her country and team, before we explored what it\u2019s been like to bring her 2025 album \u2018There\u2019s Always More That I Could Say<\/a>\u2018 to life on stage every night as she continues to blow up on festival stages.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really good to be back with new music and we\u2019re bringing so much energy. We took the album to Japan, Korea, China, we\u2019ve been on a Europe tour of Germany, the Netherlands, France, the UK, it was such a fun round,\u201d she told us of her summer.<\/p>\n

\"SigridSigrid live at Mad Cool 2026. Credit: Javier Bragado<\/p>\n

She also shared that she\u2019d been listening a lot lately to Turnstile<\/a>\u2018s \u2018Never Enough<\/a>\u2018, and the \u201camazing songwriting and production\u201d of Olivia Rodrigo<\/a>\u2018s \u2018You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love<\/a>\u2018, as well as having Holly Humberstone\u2019s \u2018Cruel World<\/a>\u2018 \u201con repeat\u201d alongside TOMORA\u2019s \u2018Come Closer<\/a>\u2018.<\/p>\n

Her choices speak to her vocal love of rock, having been open about her admiration of bands like Muse<\/a> and even recording a collab with Bring Me The Horizon<\/a>. As a result, Sigrid said she found it \u201can honour\u201d to be playing at Mad Cool on the same day as the likes of Halsey, Pixies, Interpol, Cliffords, Kings Of Leon and Twenty One Pilots<\/a>, and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere I\u2019ve found myself sonically for the last 10 years, I\u2019ve been somewhere in between,\u201d she said of her sound between rock and left-of-centre pop. \u201cI make pop songs, I\u2019m so proud to be calling myself an artist that makes a lot of pop music, but I\u2019ve always been influenced by so many different genres and I try to cram in as many different inspirations in the studio as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued: \u201cOn this last record, we drew a lot of inspirations from Scandi indie pop, French music\u2026 It is pop music, but with way more guitars than I\u2019ve used before. It can a song, it can be a snare drum that I heard in a song once, but the point is that it is an honour to play on the rock day and feel like I can have a foot in different camps per se.\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve definitely seen people moshing to \u2018Don\u2019t Kill My Vibe\u2019\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cIt happens! I\u2019ve seen people mosh pit to \u2018Dynamite\u2019, my ballad!\u201d Sigrid replied. \u201cThat was at student festival in Norway so they were mosh pitting to literally any song. It was the best crowd in the world, probably. That was pretty epic. I\u2019ve seen metal people tearing up at ballads!\u201d<\/p>\n

Sigrid\u2019s festival tour continues through North America before appearances at Sziget in Budapest and Portsmouth\u2019s Victorious Festival next month ahead of two shows in her native Norway to cap off the run. Visit here<\/a> for tickets and more information.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You can revisit all of NME\u2019s coverage from Mad Cool 2026 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NME is the official media partner of Mad Cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sigrid has spoken to NME about leaning into her love of rock, as well as sharing her favourite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278,641,640],"class_list":["post-555390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-pop","tag-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}