Yes, more than I thought it would. It was nice to reminisce when we were writing the sleeve notes about when and where we recorded the songs. We fought it because every time the record company suggested it, we were ready to make an original album.
I sing and dance and wiggle my legs on stage. I go back fairly regularly so I never get a chance to miss it. They have herring in New York. Now I sometimes dream I could start over again and become a doctor. My parents-in-law and my mother work in hospitals and I respect people who work in that environment very much. It was one impression of the band,one of many aspects. We were bummed as hell that it was so popular at the time.
Yes, we refused to play it for a long time. We had a band member drown. The circumstances surrounding his death were very strange. When you are 18 to 25, fine, you can spend all your time with your band, as that's all you have. But when you get older, you want to spend time with the people who matter. I was very fucked-up throughout the entire recording [of Gran Turismo].
I remember finding a dead bat in the woods near the studio one day. I took it back, nailed it to the wall, and sang every word to the bat, and to nobody else. The human urge to rape, conquer and pillage has always fascinated me, and lyrically it makes for some terrific metaphors that can work in all sorts of ways, both personal and political.
I was called ridiculous things, like the Ice Queen. And if I smoked a cigarette or wore leather pants, the media went wild. It was crazy, stupid. Suddenly I represented this group that, creatively, I had little to do with. I never felt as if I deserved the fame - which was probably very Swedish of me. People were saying I was hot-looking, cute, but I never was. I never had groupies, unlike the rest of the band. Men were scared to approach me, which bummed me out because I would have loved some more, you know When I finally did bag myself a boyfriend, it was pretty much a catastrophe.
He was with me only because I was famous, but he was terribly jealous of me, and always insecure. We lasted a year somehow; a horrible time. I was successful, making a lot of money, and I enjoyed none of it.
View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. Even the band's origins showed that their later appearance was quite misleading; two heavy metal fanatics formed the group in October in Jonkoping, Sweden.
Guitarist Peter Svensson met bassist Magnus Sveningsson in a hardcore group, though he had previously trained in music theory and jazz arranging. The two later grew tired of metal and decided to form a pop band with vocalist Nina Persson -- an art-school friend who had never sung professionally -- plus keyboard player Lars-Olof Johansson and drummer Bengt Lagerberg. All five Cardigans moved into a small apartment in and began recording a demo tape that entered the hands of producer Tore Johansson later that year.
Signed to the dance-oriented Stockholm label, the Cardigans released Emmerdale in May The Cardigans spent the last half of touring Europe and recording their second album.
A satirical response to their moody debut, Life showed the band at their most upbeat, including an angelic picture of Persson in an ice-skating outfit for the cover. Released in March -- with several re-recordings of songs from Emmerdale -- the album eventually sold one and a half million copies worldwide and became especially popular in Japan, where it achieved platinum status.
A deal with Minty Fresh gave the Cardigans an American release of Life in spring , and the group played eight sold-out shows in the U. The American major labels began to notice the attention, and Mercury signed them soon after.
First Band on the Moon , released in September , de-emphasized the pure pop in favor of abstract arrangements and some rather violent themes. Nevertheless, the infectious single "Lovefool" became a radio hit by early , and First Band on the Moon eventually reached gold status in America, as well as platinum certification in Japan just three weeks after its release.
Gran Turismo followed in , though it lacked an obvious hit and led to a long hiatus for the band.
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