Re: Winning grammies conspiracy theories 101Wow, I feel like a music journalist now! :D
I just wish I knew what people you were talking about, so that I didn't have to feel so stupid.
Ah, I always feel stupid -keep namedropping! ;)
Yes, most of Sweden do know them. A girl in my class wore a smk t-shirt just a few days ago. It was green, looked good on her. But more importantly I don't think she would search the web or go to a nice, small, stinking club to experience new music ever, so she's a real good measurement of their status amongst the swedish youth. I will spread the Häxor och porr-word to her. :)
I really liked dramabananen, in fact I think I liked it the most out of all your songs. Not bad to strike a home run on the first
hit!
Don't think you will win a grammy?
Go to www.kent.nu click on "texter" and "awards" and learn from the master; Jocke Berg.
He has once said that he doesn't think his texts are that deep that everyone else seems to think. He just writes lyrics and then people interpretate them deeper than they are.
With that knowledge songs like Blåjeans (bluejeans, haha that's like most unecassary thing to translate ever!) aren't that genius anymore.
The thing is that swedish is a language with very few words, which means we use most of them in our daily conversations. So to make them seem poetic, or to even find an unusual word to emphasize something is really hard (hence why most swedish musicians take the easy way out and write music in english). But if you manage to, perhaps by using "new" rhymes (frondör, språkrör lol) you will be highly respected and without a doubt awarded.
Here's how you will win it:
Swedish [stockholmish] music journalists are suckers for anything that will make them seem more intellectual, so when they sit on a couch in Sodra Bar discussing Matisses dark period and hear a clever lyric sung in swedish they will without a doubt "pallra sina cheap monday-reducerade arslen" home to Södermalm and write about it on their MACs.
When they've written about it P3 Svea will be next on the uptake ("new, hip, swedish-sung electronica?!") and as we all know government financed radio is just the way to get to the youngsters. If not, internet is a good forum for spreading music, and you seem to be working that quite fine. Well, anyways (sorry, got a little sidetracked there) after the P3-kids (who also will spread the songs amongst them) and musicmag-cred the awards and sales are next.
The tricky part is that you need the sales if you want a grammy (they're just a reflection of the charts), but as long as you've been played frequently on P3 there's always P3 Guld. After P3 Guld everything previously mentioned will come again in a whole other density.
However we've just gotten a new goverment and I don't think they will finance culture at all like it's been before. That's one of the reasons why we're all greeving.
-in the american-medicine-commercial-fine-print-voice-
I may have understated the effort everything above takes. I will not be sued for lost incomes due to following your dreams.
-end of How to make some swedish doe before the depression starts pt. 1-
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