Thyrén, known from Noice, says that the song that forms the basis for "My sins are my saviors" was born in the mid-80s when Thyrén worked with Alexander Bard, who then went by the artist name Barbie.
I had an idea that we should make a song called
, about the Barbie character traveling around a lot of different world capitals. So Alexander and I started working on it, says Peo Thyrén.
New text and title
Co-producers and songwriters Anders Hansson and Tim Norell replaced all the chords and added a small melody loop. The song was then presented with new lyrics and the title
for the group Army of Lovers, which Bard then had with Jean Pierre Barda and Camilla Henemark.For Madonna's album, the song was refined by an Anglo-American team with Madonna and producer Stuart Price, while Stromae contributed French lyrics. But the sound from "My Army of Lovers" is still clearly audible on "My Sins Are My Saviors".
Some parts of the lyrics are also included. It sounds like you can hear Camilla Henemark's voice in the recording where she says "around the world". These are lyrics that are left over from this very first Barbie version of the song, says Peo Thyrén.
Like with "Hung up"
Madonna clearly has a fondness for Swedish music. Swedish songwriters Wilhelm Börjesson and Oskar Rindborg also appear on the album, on the song "Bizarre".
But Peo Thyrén is still surprised that Madonna and her team found the old Army of Lovers song and developed it.
It's about the same type of collaboration they had with Björn and Benny on "Hung up", which was first "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" except that it was a worldwide hit even before it was picked up, while ours was a fairly obscure song, says Thyrén, who wasn't sure the song would be included on the album before it was released on July 3.
Are you celebrating in any way?
Yes, there might be a glass of champagne tonight.
