When the Swedish Grammy awards for the third year of the Year sustainable artist becomes the Annika Norlin, who may receive the prize. In particular, it is last year’s EP ”Arctic ocean”, released under the artist name, for Sure!!!, that is the basis for the award:
”On her latest album, she did a musical interpretation of their feelings about the threat to the climate, and her strong commitment to sustainability is evident both on and off the stage. Through constant conscious choice in areas like food and travel and through participation in the initiative that puts the future of the planet in focus is the one that is for Sure!!!: This year’s scholarship recipient is Annika Norlin is an important voice to listen to,” writes the jury in the prize announcement.
is about a couple who builds an ark, taking with him the animals and travelling north, towards the fresh air and lush land. ”This will not be played on your radio or on your dance floor”, sings Annika Norlin.
” Well, it has probably been played a little grand in all cases, but probably less than if it had been about something else. When you are on stage you notice clearly what songs people feel something. If it is about love, people feel so much faster and clearer, and all think it is better, ” says Annika Norlin on the phone from his hometown of Umeå.
” Yes, it was extremely difficult to write ”Arctic ocean”, and took a terribly long time. I wrote probably 200 texts before I found ones that felt right. It is difficult to write about the environment in a way that doesn’t feel good. I also like to write from an I-perspective, and it’s so hard with something that has not yet happened, ” says Annika Norlin, and asks to get put down the phone a moment when it is heard screaming in the background.
for climate change was sparked by an experience two years ago on a frozen lake outside of Arvidsjaur – in the song mirrored by the few lines when she is drinking tea in the sun on a frozen ice and think: ”If this is not available so I don’t know what I’m doing”
” I’ve never really been interested in nature, but now when I realize that all of this can be taken away from me, I begin to also think that nature is amazing. The panic I began to feel was no slow process, but came across me on a few different occasions when I was out in nature. Now I can’t sleep if I don’t try to do anything.
living where klimatpaniken is pressed away in the vardagsbruset, while the self vanmäktigt ”goes around and pours the water glass when everything is already burning”.
” For me, it was probably had to be quiet for a moment, that I would get a hold on the emotions. When you walk around and get a lot of impressions all the time, for example, in the middle of town or when I am working, it is so much more that are clamoring for attention. Then, it is more about putting out fires in their everyday life. I think you need to take the time to have the energy to get into the issue of climate change.
” For me it has been the most about to write. But you also need to think about my mode of transport. I realized when I did a klimatkoll that I could not even remember how many flights I made in the last quarter. It has been bred a dangerous pattern in the music industry where you can fly to California in three days to write a song and then lay out the journey in social media… It becomes a dubbeldålig effect.
– The song I wrote in the heat of the moment when the united states withdrew from the paris agreement. Before this, you had the feeling that there is an overall spirit that we tackle climate change as a united world. But then it was something that died.
” I have a strategy that I should act more. Write more fun stuff and do more fun things. I also got the hope of the gigs I did in the summer, when it felt like people cared. After this warm skräcksommaren it feels like it is about to happen anything. And if one is an old feminist like me and have seen how so much has happened in feminism in the last ten years, then you have also got evidence that things can change.
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