told<\/a> PinkPantheress in Interview magazine that you\u2019ve been practicing your Grammy speech since you were 8.
Maybe not practicing but definitely fantasizing: \u201cWow, I can\u2019t believe it!\u201d Me and the mirror growing up were like [crosses fingers]. When I think back on it, the mirror was like the ultimate manifestation tool. That\u2019s what I was doing my whole childhood \u2014 picturing myself onstage in front of people, entertaining them but also entertaining myself.<\/p>\nWhat did the people in your life make of that disposition?
I mean, it was always embarrassing doing that performance in the mirror, then looking back and seeing my sister looking into the room with her friends: \u201cWhat is she doing?\u201d<\/p>\n
You\u2019re playing Jingle Ball tonight. Would you say you were aiming \u201cMidnight Sun\u201d at U.S. Top 40 radio?
With love and respect for iHeart, I really did not give a f\u2014 about radio. Wanting to do something for other people \u2014 Will the radio play this? Will other people think this is a hit? \u2014 I don\u2019t think that\u2019s ever gonna truly benefit you. I understand why people do it. But it\u2019s not very inspiring. And weirdly enough, when I stopped doing that, that\u2019s when they were like, \u201cDo you want to come and perform?\u201d<\/p>\n
Was success in America always important to you?
Yes. That\u2019s why I never wanted to sing in Swedish. Back home, all our popular artists sing in Swedish.<\/p>\n
Writing lyrics in Swedish \u2014
[Cringes]<\/p>\n
It wouldn\u2019t be good?
Maybe. I haven\u2019t really tried. As a language, it\u2019s very melodic. And what\u2019s interesting is I love to write in Swedish \u2014 I used to have this blog that I wrote in Swedish.<\/p>\n
Do any Swedish people resent you for not singing in Swedish?
No, because we\u2019ve had so many amazing artists who sing in English: Roxette, Ace of Base, a lot of huge DJs. Everybody knows that Sweden has a huge export of music \u2014 that\u2019s probably what made me feel like I can do this because all these other people have done it: Robyn, Lykke Li, Max Martin, obviously.<\/p>\n
Is Max Martin regarded in Sweden as a national hero?
He\u2019s so low-key. If anybody with semi-long hair came up and said, \u201cI\u2019m Max Martin,\u201d people would be like, \u201cYeah.\u201d I don\u2019t think he\u2019s a recognizable person in people\u2019s minds because he\u2019s not on TV. We don\u2019t have a celebrity culture.<\/p>\n
In pop music, most of the big performers are women and most of the big producers are men. Yet I was struck by the fact that Addison Rae made her album in Sweden with two women: Elvira Anderfj\u00e4rd and Luka Kloser.
I f\u2014 love them. Elvira is one of my favorite producers. I knew a few years back that I never want to be in the studio with only men. I\u2019ve done that so many times, and they were always very nice. But I never felt truly seen and heard in those rooms. This time basically no straight men made the record, and it was wonderful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A chauffeured black SUV pulls up to the curb outside Destroyer in Culver City and out jumps Zara…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[57279,15384,1576,57277,2303,48,52,51,47,50,49,57278,57276,57274,592,8257,4201,12785,57275,49616,57273],"class_list":{"0":"post-106105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-back-home","9":"tag-elvira-anderfjard","10":"tag-friend","11":"tag-good-album","12":"tag-l-a","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-la-headlines","15":"tag-la-news","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","18":"tag-los-angeles-news","19":"tag-lush-life","20":"tag-max-martin","21":"tag-midnight-sun","22":"tag-people","23":"tag-pop-music","24":"tag-radio","25":"tag-sweden","26":"tag-swedish","27":"tag-title-track","28":"tag-zara-larsson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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