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yes I did.
 
A song from 2017 leaked. Tinashes demo of this called Weekday leaked a few years ago. 
 
 https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/402862907400126475/978687657997631549/01_Party_On_A_Weekday_ST_2017.mp3

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.

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.

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.

cant believe I listened to one song from this album 5 years ago and NEVER noticed the lean on demo in there lol. I’m having an experience right now and wow I really wish they have kept some verses from the demo chorus on the final version. Its sooo good

01. Kindness - Ariel Rechtshaid, Jakob Littauer & Jam City
02. Live to Survive - Caroline Ailin, Sylvester Willy Sivertsen & Samuel George Lewis
03. Wheelspin - Ronni Vindahl & Jakob Littauer
04. Cool to Cry - Ariel Rechtshaid, Caroline Ailin, Sylvester Willy Sivertsen, Noonie Bao & Linus Wiklund
05. Youth is Lost - Jakob Littauer
06. New Moon - Caroline Ailin, Sylvester Willy Sivertsen, Noonie Bao & Linus Wiklund
07. Brad Pitt - Ronni Vindahl - Ajay Bhattacharyya - Jakob Littauer - Michael Pollack - Mads Damsgaard - Daniel Schnair
08. Goosebumps - KJakob Littauer
09. Hip Bones - Ronni Vindahl & Jakob Littauer
10. Punches - Ronni Vindahl, Jakob Littauer, Mads Damsgaard & Søren Breum Skovsted
 
4 songs with ronni, 2 songs ariel... saur excited

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.

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. 

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. 

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.