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Because I'm a glutton for punishment, I used google assistant's interpreter mode to listen to the entire DR.DK podcast about MØ (thanks to @moupd for the heads up). Most of the time it did a truly terrible job—just complete nonsense. But sometimes it worked just well enough to piece things together. There was a lot of fluff, and a lot of stuff the fans have heard many times at this point. But I jotted some things down when something caught my attention I hadn't heard before...pretty much in chronological order. As for MØ's history, it doesn't get any more recent than her time in MOR, and even then, not much past probably age 20: Karen remembers seeing the white spice girls cd on the shelf before she owned it as a child, she was afraid of the dark. woke her parents, but then heard springsteen's hungy heart coming from their room. an early memory of understanding there was something in her that needed to be expressed, but she didn't understand how yet. get on school bus as a goth and get weird looks. wanted to switch schools to the city where there were others like her. something about getting a call from a friend asking her to join a band, The Edmunds (so she would've been about 17 or 18 years old, it seems) Parents went out (on vacation to Cyprus) but 14 year old??* Karen was allowed to stay back so she threw a big party (100 people?), inviting lots of punk counterculture kids. She still didn't feel completely accepted and wanted to impress the cool ones. Police and ambulance came because there was a fight in the front yard and someone got glass in their eye. Neighbor complained. But it was some sort of victory for Karen socially. Moved in with teen punk friend Josephine to be her roommate in Odense. they would write lyric ideas down on their common kitchen table (EDIT: on a notepad or something, not the actual table) whenever something popped into their heads. Their first concert as a duo was actually a memorial concert for one of their group of girlfriends that died in a car accident. This tragedy influenced her songwriting. We do not live forever, so let's be here now. *Sounds awfully young to be throwing a house party like the kind she's describing, but the voiceover definitely says 14 years old.

Good question about Lean On. Probably it's the same, but someone else might know for sure. The way I read Sitar's comment, Sitar's expectation was that "Maiden (unmastered)" would be the more raw version that lacks things like final EQ and compression, as anyone would expect if it was labeled "unmastered", but Sitar decided after listening to it that it was just a version with bad EQ, e.g., duller sounding. That would make sense because, often, the mastering process makes the track "sparkle" a bit more and sound louder at the same volume, so someone else could have mistakenly labeled it as unmastered when really it just had the high frequencies cut out. Just my speculation.

I know there are likely many demo versions of Lean On because they created it so iteratively over many months. But those are on someone's hard drive somewhere, not released. I'm only aware of the demo version that's officially released on "Give Me Future". You can buy it on amazon (or stream it on various sites) right now. If anyone knows differently, feel free to correct me. Also, after googling "Maiden (original mix)", which I'd never heard of specifically, the one site that I found with it (Beatport) was just a clarification that it's the album version rather than one of the later remix versions. A snippet of the After Coachella demo is on soundcloud but besides that I don't know about that one.

No idea, but thanks for posting. I feel like I came across this a couple of years ago but hadn't seen it again since I became a much bigger fan. "The Rarities" has a broken link, though, and I want "Ride the Night Girl" by The IMAGO with MØ on vocals. It's streamable on Soundcloud/YouTube, but it seems you can't buy or download it anywhere because the band is defunct. Actually, I could only find about four of their songs on official stores. Does anyone have this or know where it can be purchased/downloaded? EDIT: Okay, I'm good.

Also interesting to note is that drummer Rasmus' brother Jakob co-wrote and did miscellaneous production on Kindness. I've seen no specific mention of it, but Rasmus has a brother named Jakob who performed with him on schoolofx (along with another brother, Simon), and Jakob Littauer is listed in the production notes in this YouTube video of Kindness as well as on discogs.com. The Kindness audio vid link I posted above brings up something that confuses me. It has 70k views and lists 'production notes'. But the same video (of Kindness audio) available on the official momomoyouth channel has 135k views and lists lyrics instead. Both list momomoyouth as the owner, but only the 135k version can be found on the official channel. It's as if the 70k version is hidden on the momomoyouth channel. And you can't get to it by doing a YouTube search for "MØ Kindness", either. Only searching for "Jakob Littauer", without including MØ in the search, will do it. weird

I was watching MØ's IKEA Festival performance from earlier this week and noticed usual guitarist Mikkel wasn't with them. His Instagram says he's releasing his own new music soon. What do we know about this? As recently as July he was still participating live at the Gæsten show, but by mid-August, a woman was playing guitar.

Anyone ever notice the lyrics booklet that comes with Forever Neverland has some basic spelling mistakes? Such as "Dance on every table until their (sic) mad at me" and "Heaven know's (sic) it's gonna fade"? Also, getting picky, "I'll be blinded for a life time (sic)." That may be the first time in my lifetime I've seen that word split in two rather than compounded. Also, I know the official Red Wine lyrics say she's singing "All the girls/guys around the world are sayin", alternating the gender every other time, and that's what makes sense in context. But I sure don't hear the "r" in "girls", so it sounds like "guys" every time to me. I guess it could just be her accent.

PurpleLTSR is awesome from start to finish, but that outro really gets me. To my ears, it sounds like the outro maybe started out a little longer but got trimmed, because the part right after she makes the animal shriek comes in abruptly. I wish it was longer. Anyway, the production on that song is something special. You've been a fan a long time to only now be joining the "community". Did you get involved through other sites or social media?

Several weeks ago, I was listening to MØ and I had to laugh at myself. Like a Pavlov's dog response, I found myself getting goosebumps just from the beginning fade-in of Beautiful Wreck. There's technically nothing special about the intro, but my subconscious mind knew what would follow it.

On a side note, among the small handful of musical acts I ended up looking into (besides MØ), the other one that really stood out was Grouplove, who I'd casually been paying attention to for years, actually. After recently curating my own playlist of Grouplove songs, I've been super happy getting into all their great music too. The thing is, when you look into the Sony/RCA/Chess Club A&R guy who got MØ signed, Will Street, you'll notice the biggest artists he's discovered are (from what I can tell) Mumford & Sons, MØ, ...and Grouplove. Now that's a fun coincidence! so he gets a well-deserved from me. And the Marcus Mumford/Major Lazer song MØ co-wrote has been in somewhat heavy radio rotation around here as recently as a month or two ago. Just heard it on my car radio earlier today, actually.

Hey everybody, I've only recently gotten into MØ. In absense of much else going on right now, I'll share my own limited story of MØ fandom. Because my tastes tend to run more towards alternative rock (one of Karen's many disparate influences), I'd never even heard of her until about last summer or fall when she started getting radio airplay for Blur on the local alt-pop station. Basically, I'd been leaving terrestrial radio playing in the background at my place, and was looking out for new artists to get into. Blur was in moderate rotation back then (maybe once or twice a day) and I eventually youtubed it one weekend. I remember thinking to myself it might be the best pop song I'd heard all year...after listening to it at least a half-dozen times in one day For whatever reason, I procrastinated, waiting until the early COVID period to actually look into the rest of her music, but within a month I was completely hooked. Mildly obsessed, really, listening to everything I could find...live performances, interviews, etc. and slowly making my way through every post in this thread. The brilliant Forever Neverland is what really got me. I know a lot of old-school fans wanted more old-school MØ for her second album, which is understandable, but anyone overlooking FN because it wasn't more of NMTF is seriously missing out! FWIW, and keeping in mind that I experienced her whole catalog pretty much all at once, I ended up making my Forever Neverland playlist include Kamikaze, Nights With You, and Final Song—like the extended Janapese release, basically.