#Annika Norlin

[tweehearts]

annika norlins english project, hello saferide, is more well known outside of sweden than her main band säkert! which is a true bummer because everything that hello saferide does, säkert! does better. even if you don't understand what she is saying, the music by itself and her golden vocal melodies make it worth checking out. i would recommend google translating her lyrics though, norlin is one of the best songwriters in swedish pop (or music in general) and a true indie cult classic.

this is THE hit! everytime this song plays on the indie clubs, the floor is filled immediately. one of swedens only twee pop hits!

"we will die at the same time"

i could write more about the AMAZING swedish indie pop scene and its subculture, the pop kids (poppare) but that can wait for another day (im thinking of doing a zine about it actually, more about that later!)

[tiredsoundsofagnes]

isarna av säkert! kan förstöra en hel dag om lyssnad vid fel tillfälle

[lonelier-version-of-you]

I just realised I somehow have failed to mention this so far, but: there's a new Annika Norlin album on the way!!

I'm so excited. And curious if all the songs will be in Swedish, or if it will be a mix of English and Swedish songs.

[setsailtomorrow]

for my own curiosity: best albums of 2022 (in order of release)

Annika Norlin - Mentor Mitski - Laurel Hell Beach House - Once, Twice, Melody Jonathan Johansson - Om Vi Får Leva Tove Styrke - Hard Rina Sawayama - Hold the Girl Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs - Cool It Down Sara Parkman - Eros Agape Philia Louis Tomlinson - Faith in the Future

[cebozcom]

Vårturné med Annika Norlin och Jonas Teglund | CeBoz.com

En sammanfattning av den spännande vårturnén med Annika Norlin och Jonas Teglund.

[higherentity]

[sharpened--edges]

Hello Saferide, “I Forgot About Songs” (2014)

[newrulesnewlife]

[jamieroxx]

Happy Birthday. Today, Nov 22, 1977 – Annika Norlin, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Hello Saferide (in English) and Säkert! (in Swedish)) was born. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annika_Norlin)

[polaroidblog]

"I just want someone to talk to. Well, maybe not just anyone"

Un po’ come ritrovarsi per caso ad ascoltare una conversazione intima tra due amici di vecchia data, in quell’attimo scoperto tra l’inevitabile curiosità e l’imbarazzo di violare una certa dovuta riservatezza. Così è ascoltare le canzoni contenute in questo Correspondence, il disco composto, mese dopo mese, lungo tutto il 2018, da Jens Lekman e Annika Norlin...

[shellhavetoburnyou]

A List of Albums and Songs That Take Me Back to the Years 2007-2010

(Not all these were made during this period of time. Some of them just remind me of living those years.)

Albums

The Killers: Hot Fuss Sam's Town

The Cranberries:   (I must have listened to these every single my freshman year in 2009 and throughout high school.) Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? No Need To Argue To The Faithful Departed

Cobra Starship: Guilty Pleasure

Cute Is What We Aim For: (Does anyone remember them??) The Same Old Blood Rush With A New Touch

Fall Out Boy: (I listened to them and Panic! and MCR every single day.) Take This To Your Grave Infinity On High From Under The Cork Tree

My Chemical Romance: The Black Parade Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love Danger Days

Panic! at the Disco: A Fever You Can't Sweat Out     Pretty.Odd.    

Tokio Hotel: (You can fight me about Tokio Hotel, I still like them. They were my gateway to German metal, which is admittedly is weird as shit because lmao, they definitely are nowhere near the metal genre. But liking the sound of German got me into metal bands like Subway to Sally and Schandmaul, etc.) Scream             Zimmer 483  

Nine Inch Nails: With Teeth

Interpol: Antics

Annika Norlin:               Facit                

Songs

The Hush Sound: Medicine Man Honey

Palaye Royale: Mr. Doctor Man Too Many People

The Distillers: City of Angels

Lost Alone:

Do You Really Get What You Pray For?

[thesinglesjukebox]

ANNIKA NORLIN - SHOWERING IN PUBLIC [5.71] And now let's slip into something a bit more uncomfortable...

Joshua Minsoo Kim: "Showering in Public" doesn't need to be heard more than once. It's like a heart-to-heart you have with a friend, where the weight of every emotion and shared story remains with you forever; you don't recall the event every time you see this person, but it shapes how you think about them, interact with them, love them. "Showering in Public" achieves this effect because of the premise from which it's derived: a year-long project where Annika Norlin and Jens Lekman communicated with each other via monthly-released singles. As such, this is personal and lyric-heavy, less a piece of music than a letter read aloud. Norlin spends the duration of the song tracing the history of her distaste for showering in public, and how it's a result of perverts both young and old trying to see her and other females in the nude. It's poignant and funny and quotidian all at once, the instrumentation solely functioning as necessary accompaniment to qualify this as song-like. Tracks like these display how making a song allows for a valuable distancing -- something with which one can approach specific feelings and ideas that may otherwise be too difficult to tackle head-on. [6]

Anthony Easton: Norlin's details and her po-faced humour make the banal impositions of misogynist culture precise and clear. Sometimes it becomes a little plodding, but you feel churlish for pointing it out because of the nature of her subjects. This one isn't as interesting as some of the songs from Hello Saferide, but it has some great lines. [8]

Vikram Joseph: Using an idiosyncratic but relatable experience such as showering in public as a tool for stringing memories together, creating an oblique window into the narrator's soul: a really good idea. Those memories literally all being of pervy boys/men at school: makes a point, but stifles the song's emotional range. Patronising the listener by explaining the concept of the song ("This is me recapping my life when it comes to showering in public"): not good. It almost feels like improv songwriting -- the verse structure is malleable, lines frequently don't scan -- but Norlin lacks the humour to sell it. The spare guitar backing could have worked on a Julien Baker song, but feels incongruous and tepid here. +1 point for teaching me how to pronounce the Swedish city of Göteborg, though. [4]

Alfred Soto: The details are precise and painful, the musical elements non-existent. [3]

Katherine St Asaph: Uncomfortable nakedness as metaphor for uncomfortable self-revelation appeals to many singer-songwriters, for obvious reasons -- think Kristin Hersh titling her memoir Paradoxical Undressing, after the phenomenon in hypothermia. The first verse of "Showering in Public" starts to go there, but it soon becomes clear that no, this will just be about literal showering in public. And the starchy vocal, singsong "Tom's Diner" affect, and banal detail for detail's sake ("one of the bathrooms was broken -- it had a sign that said 'broken'") make it hard to really care. [3]

Ian Mathers: Norlin is one of those songwriters who can take something so quotidian and personal and start addressing in a way that, even if you know how good she is at this mode, seems like it's going to be inconsequential or silly, only by the end to have thoroughly captured something real and moving and sometimes very dark. It's not the only good way to write a song, but it's an impressive one when it's properly executed, partly because it would be so easy for the results to fall flat. [7]

Iain Mew: My most mortifying experience in my Singles Jukebox career came through picking Hello Saferide's "Arjeplog" for Amnesty 2009. I'm only just about at the point where I can link to it now; read between the lines of my comment there and you can see how deeply I was bothered by the way so many people gathered round a reading of it as an uncomfortable intimacy simulation that was a long way away from mine. I related deeply to her, and that was that. Now here I am picking one of her songs as the one that moved me most in the year again, and given that it's about a lifetime's experience of predatory men being supported by structural misogyny I can't directly relate. In an ironic twist, it's also framed as intimate correspondence -- Annika and Jens Lekman have spent 2018 exchanging musical letters, with this one making the most of that concept. Something else is obviously happening. Feeling right there in the moment with her is part of how it works after all. But there's explanation in a key line on the last Hello Saferide album too: "where we come from, we drink or we suppress" to which I can only mentally add "...and I very rarely drink." The thing that makes "Showering in Public" for me is its understatement: Annika Norlin's elliptical approach, the wry asides, the way the gut-punch "the paper published the news with a fun caricature" has so much power through implication. The closing section addressed more specifically to Jens, the quilted jacket in Göteborg, becomes an unusual kind of emotional climax. The stark music does a lot of the work of filling in everything left unsaid, but ultimately the way of writing out feelings in a studiedly offhand style and then moving rapidly and desperately on feels incredibly real and personal. I'm overdue on writing to two dear friends and I have things to say that I don't know where to start with, but I do know that the next step after carefully pouring out your soul is obviously to fill in niceties about the weather. I'm so happy to hear someone else get it. [9]

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[lonelier-version-of-you]

henrik and maja are so "jag älskar dig, säger du tveksamt / varför är det ett frågetecken i din röst? / i min också, men jag skyller på dig / i min också, men jag skyller på dig" (i'm quoting annika norlin lyrics and making them about henrik again)

[setsailtomorrow]

76, 34, 10 💖

you found songs in english! ❤️😘

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[a-disaster-piece]

Jens Lekman // “Not Because It’s Easy, Because It’s Hard,” from CORRESPONDENCE (a project of writing letters in the form of songs, between Jens Lekman & Annika Norlin)

It hurts to hear you been exhausted; I've seen too many people 'round me haunted, By the cruellest to-do lists, longer than the end credits of movies...

I heard the clones bragging, about all the sleep they'd been missing; They posted vids of them sipping, on a smoothie while their eyes were twitching.

Coffee for lunch, email for dinner, in those press photos we've never looked thinner; Exhaustion only happens to a winner, wear it like a badge of honour.

It was not until clone number one, was hospitalized with palpitations; That they asked themselves what they'd done, and were horrified by what they had become...