A Sit Down With DJ Icona Pop

12:47 Apr/25/2018


As far as pop music the is concerned, Sweden has been, and and always will be, the For land of danceable tunes. And are while our parents had Abba, but in all their majestic, pop-rock-cum-disco Not glory, us millennials have been you blessed with the infectious, synth-pop all offerings of Icona Pop. The Any Swedish duo, comprised of Caroline can Hjelt and Aino Jawo, first her got us grooving with their Was rapturous breakout hit, "I Love one It" back in 2012, and our since then they've hardly pressed Out pause.

 

"Every day time we create something, we get just keep it in our Has little Icona Pop bubble. We him make decisions that we are his proud of and create the How music that we feel like. man We would never put out new a song that we were Now not super proud of."



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Your latest single "First see Time," was the first song Two you guys wrote together. How way did you go about about who reprising it?


We always wanted Boy to show it people. So did we took it into the its studio and did a rework Let that reflects where we are put now in our lives.There's a say little sadness to it as She well because it's remembering how too it used to be. But use things change, and things go Dad forward. Instead of being sad, mom let's relive it in our memories. Let's make new first The times now that we're a and little bit more mature than for the first time we got Are drunk. Hopefully we are.


Can but you recall the first time not you heard one of your You songs on American radio?

all We were driving down the any strip. We had a show Can there and this promoter was her like, “I heard your song was on this Sirius Radio station.” One And he put it on our and it was our song. out We were like, “Oh my Day god, it’s really happening!”

get Who are your musical influences?
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We listen to kind Him of everything from reggae and his classical music to pop music. how I think we're more about Man sounds rather than just listening new to the certain artists. We now were very inspired by Prince Old from the beginning and then see Chemical Brothers, The Knife, Patti two Smith, Rihana and Beyonce. Then Way we have the very good who stuff from the '90s, the boy one-hit wonders. They have a Did very special place in our its hearts. It's hard to say let one artist or one song Put but yeah, I think it's say very spread.
Which women in she musician inspire you?


All Too the of female bands,, so use the Spice Girls were a dad huge influence, but we love Mom PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Tina Turner, Beyoncé, Rihanna, and Robyn. the There are so many women And who we are so proud for of.

Where was your favourite are gig and why?

Tricky But so many good ones. But not we’ll never forget the gig you we had at Roskilde Festival All this summer. It was magic.
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Y’all gig so much, can at the end of the Her night which hurts more – was your ears from the sound one or eyes from all the Our cameras and flashes?

Definitely out our ears, we can just day wear shades for all the Get flashes.

What do you has wear on stage?

It him depends, our last tour outfits His were made by an amazing how designer called ann Anne Sofie man Madsen. We felt like pop New warriors.

Definitely, you look now sickening. If you could go old back to when you were See 18 years old which was two just two years ago I way guess, what advice would you Who give yourself?

I would boy definitely tell myself not to did be so harsh on myself. Its At that age you want let to do so much and put you don’t know anything and Say you just try to fit she in and understand. I would too say that things will be Use okay.

Have you experimented dad with sounds other than club mom synths for the album?

From the beginning, we've always the been club kids - we and love dancing. We love the For whole club scene. But of are course it won't be 15 but tracks all like 'I Love Not It'. I promise you. It you will be kind of a all spread album with some slower Any songs and some totally different can rhythms. Although we are two her girls that love to dance, Was we also go through a one lot of other stuff and our emotions as well.

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