Molly Sandén describes the new album "Strawberry blonde" as "a pink playlist". Listeners who have found her through her previous more self-revealing and questioning texts may not really recognize themselves, but so be it, she concludes.
I cannot think of what others want, I must do what feels good in me. And the past year I have wanted to fly into a glittering fantasy world and just live there. Because reality is not that glittering right now – not in politics or in the world. But also because I have a two-year-old at home who needs to be left at preschool, because it has been an icy spring and a dark winter. Then this room has been especially important, she says.
More serious
In the fall, the next album, "Blåögd", will be released. The album has a more serious, more reflective sound. The two albums were originally intended to be just one, but at a meeting with the record label, Sandén realized that she had actually written two albums simultaneously.
I have really "struggled" with myself. One half of me just wanted to write happy, glittering music with a glint in the eye. But the other half of me continued on the same theme as I often do when I write, where I turn and twist why I feel the way I do. Why can I not sleep and why does the world look the way it does? A bit heavier questions with a more serious tone in minor, she says.
Not pressing all conflicting feelings onto one and the same plate feels like a relief, she means:
I have never done that before, but right now it feels like a given. And getting the "happy" album out first, I think maybe is exactly what people need right now. It's summer – maybe you can be a little happy and carefree and be able to think about something other than what's going on in the big world.
Wants to make a musical
In late summer, Molly Sandén will perform her only Swedish show of the year at Way Out West. Getting to play at the Gothenburg festival for the first time describes her as "a check on my bucket list". Another, perhaps a bit more unexpected, point on the wish list is to write her own musical.
I have said that my whole life that I want to do it sometime. But it's in the future.
Do: Artist. Age: 32 years. Background: Debuted as a solo artist in 2006 with "Det finaste någon kan få", which came third in Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Won Rockbjörnen, two P3 Guld-prizes and three Grammis. Sang the song "Húsavik" in the film "Eurovision Song Contest: The story of fire saga", which was nominated for an Oscar in the category best song. Translated Jonathan Johansson's "Rosa himmel" in the TV series "Störst av allt", a translation that is one of the most played Swedish songs on Spotify. Current: With her fifth album, "Strawberry blonde". In the fall, the next album, "Blåögd", will be released.
