{"id":565,"date":"2010-03-22T23:52:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T23:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=565"},"modified":"2010-03-22T23:52:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T23:52:23","slug":"the-evolution-of-swedish-pop-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/the-evolution-of-swedish-pop-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of Swedish pop part II."},"content":{"rendered":"

We finished last time<\/a> around the middle of the 1990s and with The Cardigans a band from J\u00f6nk\u00f6ping the capital city of the so called Swedish Bible Belt Area (Bibelb\u00e4ltet<\/strong>). There is hardly anything religious\u00a0about them.\u00a0They made a major breakthrough in 1996 with Lovefool<\/a> with a song that annoys me so much nowadays whenever I hear it on the radio. The song was on the official soundtrack of the film\u00a0Rome0 and Juliet. Well, that soundtrack was really good as I can remember. Even the fascinating Stina Nordenstam had a\u00a0great song on the album called Little Star<\/a>.\u00a0However Erase and Rewind<\/a> or My favourite game<\/a> were much better songs of The Cardigans.\u00a0 The beats in my My favourite game\u00a0still makes me want to\u00a0rock at the office. The front singer Nina Persson lives in Bronx but she has also\u00a0a residence in Malm\u00f6. Besides The Cardigans she has another formation called A Camp. Talking about Bible belt check these out: Stronger than Jesus<\/a>, I can buy you<\/a>. I wonder what kind of bible they read in J\u00f6nk\u00f6ping that makes\u00a0Nina so creative?!\u00a0 Another internationally known artist was Meja at that time with\u00a0hits like\u00a0It\u00b4s all about the money<\/a> and Private emotion<\/a> (that was a duet with Ricky Martin) Un, dos tres no…actually only dos because I don\u00b4t remember more tracks from her. Although I have heard that she was very popular in Asia and maybe still is.\u00a0But the message of It\u00b4s all about the money has never been clearer. So, I would like to dedicate this song to everyone from The Lehman Brothers to Spyker (the company that bought SAAB). We hope the best. Ah, and congrats for the\u00a0US for the new health care reform. Huge! It was about time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Indie was one of the upcoming genres in Sweden in the end of the 1990s and it shortly became one of the most significant directions in the first decade after the millennium. Blondes have done it before, but never really with a rock-punk influence that sold well internationally. I am talking about The Sounds.\u00a0I was very impressed when I saw them last summer at Pitk\u00e4 Kuuma Kes\u00e4 festival in Helsinki (Helsingfors<\/strong>). What a great performance and\u00a0beautiful legs Maja Ivarsson! In 2002 they came out with their first single Hit me<\/a> the track was one of a controversial series of\u00a0lyrics. I really don\u00b4t know the inspiration behind it some Swedish urban legends tell that it was inspired by Britney\u00b4s Hit me baby one more time. That song is rather controversial for my taste. The Sounds released a series of hit singles later on such as Song with a mission<\/a>, Painted by numbers<\/a> etc. Maybe the Swedish Tax Office (Skatteverket<\/strong>) should use this song as an\u00a0anthem whenever giving away a new personal number. It would be much more fun to get into touch with them.\u00a0But back to music. Another genre that was back in the beginning of the millennium was disco. There weren\u2019t any discos in Europe that wouldn\u00b4t play Alcazar. Alcazar has made several covers like\u00a0This is the world we living in<\/a>, Crying at the discoteque<\/a>\u00a0and even some own tracks as well\u00a0that topped the disco charts. They are still a\u00a0well-selling Swedish pop export.\u00a0Two of the band members left Alcazar in 2007\u00a0so the others\u00a0decided to go on as a\u00a0trio. Well, I shouldn\u00b4t leave out the band that has played concerts together with The Rolling Stones. Yes! I am talking about Howling Pelle The Hives (I just want to mention that “The somethings” is quite a popular name of choice for many Swedish bands….no idea why). Anyhow, this band plays a lot live (which is in my opinion a plus) and sold its music for many videogame projects and films. They are basically everywhere. You remember these tracks?: Walk idiot walk<\/a>. Two timing touch and broken bones<\/a>\u00a0and more recently: Tick Tick Boom <\/a>and a\u00a0duet with Cindy Lauper<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For the third part of this trilogy I am planning only a list of artists. There I am going to stick to tracks\u00a0from all kind of\u00a0genres between\u00a02000-2010.\u00a0Soon there is coming a new grammar post as well (but we are working on something bigger for you. It\u00b4s called the WODT in Swedish…you\u00b4ll see!)\u00a0so please make suggestions on\u00a0grammar\/language topics again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We finished last time around the middle of the 1990s and with The Cardigans a band from J\u00f6nk\u00f6ping the capital city of the so called Swedish Bible Belt Area (Bibelb\u00e4ltet). There is hardly anything religious\u00a0about them.\u00a0They made a major breakthrough in 1996 with Lovefool with a song that annoys me so much nowadays whenever I…<\/p>\n

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