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INTERVIEW. Håkan Hellström He has long been concerned about what his critics say about him, despite being almost without competition the most prominent artist of Swedish pop for several decades. Rows like “Håkan, you were better before”, “Everyone wants to see you fall now, Håkan Hellström” is complemented by the new album “Rampljus vol. 1” with “Håkan you would have been cruel if you had made a plate and then you would have died at 27 ”
Easily offended? Maybe.
On the last track on the album, “Please don’t turn off the lights,” he goes one step further. The allusion is obvious in my ears. In a 2013 chronicle he wrote Jens Liljestrand, Deputy Head of Culture at Expressen:
Come on, Håkan. It’s over for us. You were the singer who broke up with the ironic generation, who would always be so honest. So tell the truth now. Give me a single chorus on what it’s like to buy a four-bedroom apartment and a summer place, what it’s like to stand there and restock your father’s mix and be a middle-aged family provider. It would be infinitely more interesting.
And now, seven years and many songs later, Håkan responds. He doesn’t sing, but it makes his voice sound a little louder and he talks about the music: “Couldn’t you write a song about something real? Paying bills … refunds … refueling the car … taking mortgages … instead? ”
I call and upset Jens Liljestrand on parental leave (he’s sitting in the car) to ask if he sees this as an answer to his old call. And how it feels.
– The song contains that particular detail about refueling the car. As a literary scientist, I must admit, yes, that is a reference to my chronicle in Expressen. And in that case it is festive and honorable.
Has he really carried that with him for so long?
– I do not know Håkan Hellström, but what I experience when I listen to his music is that he has no difficulty carrying things with him. It is a fantastic work of art that is mainly about licking or even scratching old wounds. And maybe this story has become a wound? But of course you can only speculate.
I understand that registration is very much about getting older, which is getting older on stage and in the spotlight. Is it important for us to hear Håkan grow old?
– It depends on which perspective we want to see it. If we want to consider him an artist like everyone else, the answer is no. You see him as an artist, as a mother Evert Taubewhat I do, however, is important. Taube developed all the time, it is what makes an art deep and refined. He not only supervised Frithiof Andersson’s sailor. The sadness of the old Rönnerdahl is necessary so that we can see the depth of Taube’s art. Maybe we can say something similar about “Spotlight vol. 1”.
Victor Malm is a critic and editor at the Expressen cultural site.
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