[youtube]ASRry6HQ54w[/youtube] It is Saturday and it is raining and you are miserable. But to brighten your day, here are some beautiful Swedish women to sing in a foreign tongue at you. I just spent the last two hours watching the final of Melodifestivalen, which is this annual music competition thing wherein the people of Sweden …
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[youtube]GaSjnlCAWX4[/youtube] I don’t know how many of you remember the four-episode program Clash of the Choirs, where a bunch of pop stars went back to their hometowns to assemble choirs and then competed to see who was the best. Anyway, it didn’t last very long, but the Swedish incarnation of the show, Körslaget, is already …
The tween years are so difficult, but Oskar and Eli have a special set of challenges. The Avon is holding its own vampire weekend with midnight-ish showings of the Swedish movie Let the Right One In. (If that sounds familiar, the title is derived from a Morrissey song, the screenwriter being a fan.) The curious …
[youtube]KLNf8SmZ4UQ&feature=related[/youtube] Okay Matthew. . . I’ll see your Nina Persson and raise you one Maja Ivarsson. The Sounds played the Met Cafe a while ago, and she jumped all over the place and threw herself around the stage and made everyone fall in love with her. But someone has got to help the Swedes with …
There will always be a special place in my heart for Nina Persson, the former figure skater who triple-axled her way into public consciousness with The Cardigans. The perky Swedish group had a small string of hits in the mid-nineties (Carnival, Lovefool, My Favorite Game) but didn’t peak creatively until the very excellent country-pop of …
[youtube]GcaOSDS7jaw[/youtube] The Swedish Grammi* Awards were held last night. Most of the awards went to people I don’t know,** like Anna Ternheim (Best Album, Best Female Artist), EMD (Best Song) and Afasi & Filthy (Best Dance/Soul/Hip-Hop Artist). The totally dull yet amazingly popular Hakan Hellstrom won Best Male Artist, the annoyingly overrated Robyn got Best …
(For the next ten days, I’ll be counting down the list of my 20 favorite albums of 2008. Obviously I didn’t hear every album that came out–although I did hear quite a lot of them–and obviously personal taste factors into this quite a bit, so I can tell you now that if you’re looking for …
While there are lots of things I like about the Swedes–their detective novels, their catchy pop music, and their unique cooking style, among other things–there’s one I didn’t know existed until today: If you’re Swedish, the government sends you condoms on your 23rd birthday. Well, one condom (Kung Fu brand) but still. Apparently that’s the …