{"id":9393,"date":"2021-09-03T01:29:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T01:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=9393"},"modified":"2021-09-03T01:29:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T01:29:08","slug":"melancholy-via-melissa-horn-on-the-musikblogg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/melancholy-via-melissa-horn-on-the-musikblogg\/","title":{"rendered":"Melancholy via Melissa Horn on the Musikblogg"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The cool breeze from Lake Superior tells me that autumn isn\u2019t far away. After a stressful week, these chilly evenings just make me want to be <\/span>mysig (cozy)<\/span><\/i><\/a>. And if you know me, music is central to my type of <\/span>mys<\/span><\/i>. Melissa Horn is a Swedish artist I play when I want to slow down my tempo. Captivating poetry, chock-full of melancholy meets romance, Melissa\u2019s singer-songwriter vibe is the perfect match for some late-summer listening.<\/span><\/p>\n

Vem \u00e4r Melissa Horn? \/ Who is Melissa Horn?<\/span><\/h2>\n

A life-long <\/span>stockholmare<\/span><\/i> (Stockholmer), <\/span>Astrid Melissa Edwarda Horn Weitzberg<\/span> grew up near <\/span>S\u00f6dermalm<\/span><\/i>. Melissa <\/span>var f\u00f6dd i <\/span><\/i>(was born in) 1987 to professor Eddie Weitzberg and mother Maritza Horn, an award-winning jazz and pop vocalist. Her parents gifted Melissa her first guitar at age 16 and the strumming and singing ensued! Her debut album <\/span>L\u00e5nga n\u00e4tter<\/span><\/i> (Long Nights) was released in 2008 and reached 7th on the Swedish charts.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Melissa Horn\u2019s raw and emotional songwriting has earned her critical acclaim with Swedish Grammis nominations and the <\/span>Evert Taube-pris<\/span><\/a> in 2020. Her lyrics aren\u2019t the kind of terrible melancholy that makes you want to turn and run in the other direction. Rather, she\u2019s able to address intense feelings of love and loss with a grace and beauty that pulls you in and invites you to sit down, enjoy a cup of tea, and relate to her.<\/span><\/p>\n

En introduktion till Melissa Horn \/ An Intro to Melissa Horn<\/span><\/h2>\n

My Swedish-Finn friend Ida introduced me to Melissa Horn back in college. We worked together as tutors for the Scandinavian Studies department and you can imagine I picked her brain all the time. I asked her for some good Swedish singer-songwriter suggestions and she said, \u201cHave you heard of Melissa Horn?! \u2018<\/span>Hur ska det g\u00e5<\/span><\/i>?\u2019 has been my theme song for my year in the U.S.!\u201d<\/span>
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\n<\/span>\u201cHur ska det g\u00e5? (How\u2019s it going to go?)\u201d is about the uncertainty of what\u2019s going to happen between a couple. There\u2019s also a phrase about going across the ocean and back again,<\/span> \u201c<\/span><\/i>Jag har tagit b\u00e5ten \u00f6ver havet hit igen.\u201d<\/span><\/i> Both great connections to Ida\u2019s year studying in Minnesota. The opening verse is as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

Din sol har landat i mitt kn\u00e4 och g\u00e5tt s\u00f6nder
\n<\/span><\/i>Och v\u00e5ra rader trillar ur och ligger kvar
\n<\/span><\/i>Jag tror vi lj\u00f6g fast vi sa att det var sant
\n<\/span><\/i>Vi var aldrig k\u00e4ra i varann, det bara k\u00e4ndes likadant<\/span><\/i>
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\n<\/span>Your sun has landed in my lap and it shattered<\/span>
\n<\/span>And our words spill out and lie there still<\/span>
\n<\/span>I think we lied but we said that it was true<\/span>
\n<\/span>We were never in love, but the feeling was mutual
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Listen to the song below! Pay <\/span>attention to the way the -r on <\/span>hur<\/span><\/i> and the -s on <\/span>ska<\/span><\/i> combine to make a sh-sound. The same as the Swedish <\/span>vars\u00e5god<\/span><\/i> is pronounced \u201cvarsh-oh-goud.\u201d
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