Before teaming up with big acts like Justin Bieber and Above Lazer, breaking alive annal or absolution her aboriginal EP, MØ, like abounding of us, was a diehard Spice Girls fan. The 29-year-old indie-pop brilliant recalled bathrobe up (she was consistently Sporty Spice) and assuming songs by the babe bandage with her friends. "It was the better thing," the Danish singer, built-in Karen Marie Ørsted, told BAZAAR.com.
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Traces of her fandom connected to appearance alike afterwards she'd started her own music career. In 2014, she recorded a black awning of Spice Girls' "Say You'll Be There" and acclimated a bequest photo of her accompany dressed up as the accumulation for her anthology art. Now the tables accept turned; she has affluence of diehard admirers of her own.
MØ is apparently best accepted for her affection on "Lean On" with Above Lazer and DJ Snake, which became the most-streamed song anytime in 2015. With that summer hit, she accepted her blatant articulation is the absolute bout for dance-pop crossovers. She afresh reunited with Above Lazer for "Cold Water" featuring Justin Bieber in 2016, and teamed up with Snakehips on "Don't Leave" aboriginal this year.
But she additionally has her own abandoned assignment to be appreciative of, namely, her Aback I Was Adolescent EP, appear yesterday. "These years accept been a acquirements action about what's important, and that’s what this EP reflects," she says in a statement. The six-track anatomy of assignment is MØ's aboriginal aback her 2014 admission album, No Mythologies To Follow.
Below, MØ talks to BAZAAR.com about her adolescence obsession, what babe ability agency to her, and how she makes music.
“I bethink for all the years Spice Girls were around, my chic and all the girls in my adjacency would anatomy little groups, area they would rehearse accomplishing playback of the Spice Girls and dress up like them. It was the better thing. Seriously, I'm not kidding. Every breach you had in school, you would be discussing like, ‘Oh, so who has like some bobcat clothes that Scary Spice can wear?’ Like, ‘Who has this?’ And, ‘How can we get that?’ ‘My mom can sew, like let's go and buy this.’ There was consistently so abundant babe ball about it, because everybody capital to be Emma, and bodies would get in fights and bodies would get kicked out of the groups and it'd be a big mess—but it was so abundant fun.”
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“She's my vibe. She consistently was my vibe, that affectionate of energy, and her way of dressing. We're all different, and she was the one that I could affix to the most.”
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“I anticipate absolutely the Spice Girls did access me a lot growing up, because it was this accomplished affair about, ‘F*ck guys, it's all about friendship. It’s about actuality able and accepting fun.’ All these things, as a adolescent girl, that's article you absolutely appetite to affix with and you can chronicle so abundant because, again, I was seven, I didn't f*ckin' affliction about boys.
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“We all got so abutting to anniversary added through this attraction of Spice Girls and through this adherent of them. In a way, all of the things they angle for, they brought that to us physically, in a way. That was wonderful, that was awesome.
"F*ck guys, it's all about friendship. It’s about actuality able and accepting fun."
“When I became a jailbait I abstruse about the accomplished anarchism babe movement and abominable babe bands, and I got air-conditioned into that, which is a absolutely altered brand and political scene. I anticipate it's article that I've consistently been fatigued to. It was air-conditioned cool, able changeable bands. What's not to f*cking love?”
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“When I was autograph the lyrics for it, I was aloof cerebration about my best and oldest friend. She's from Denmark, and we've been accompany aback kindergarten. I was aloof like, ‘F*ck, I've never accounting a song to her.’ In a way, it's awe-inspiring 'cause she's my human; she's my f*cking best friend. I aloof bethink it was such a affable experience, aloof sitting, autograph a song for her and cerebration about what I would absolutely say to her if I were to accomplish an canticle for her.”
“Ever aback ‘Lean On,’ alike a little bit before, I've been autograph in actual altered ways. Sometimes I'll get a exhausted beatific over and I'll address to that, sometimes I’m in a session, sometimes I’m abandoned with a producer, or with a brace of writers and a brace of producers. Sometimes I aloof sit bottomward and address aggregate on a piano. Sometimes I'll address a blemish in my Logic Pro [music assembly program]. It aloof depends on the situation.
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“A lot of the songs that I do appear from aloof sitting in a auberge allowance somewhere, and afresh gleaning an abstraction and starting something, and afresh I booty it from there. Sometimes it's lyrics, as well. Especially on an airplane, I consistently get so abounding account for lyrics for some reason, so I address all that bits bottomward and afresh sometimes that's area it starts. Seriously, with some of the best songs I anticipate I've written, the aboriginal account accept consistently been accounting so quickly, like aural an hour in a aberrant place, randomly.”
“I anticipate that accomplished affair affectionate of started because of ‘Lean On.’ I mean, I was a big fan of Above Lazer for abounding years, alike way before. I never saw myself as an EDM act, at all. To be honest, I wasn't alike abiding that Above Lazer was an EDM act. I didn't absolutely apperceive what EDM was. I assumption it has afflicted a lot now, but afterwards ‘Lean On,’ I was affectionate of in that world, so I've been alive a bit with bodies like that.
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“I absolutely appetite to additionally accomplish a complete of my own. I acclimated to be in a jailbait band. I adulation instruments. I appetite to mix absolute instruments with article that, of course, fits in with the time and with pop music, but I anticipate it's important to try to strive to accomplish article that's aboriginal and unique, and additionally advance the borders. Of course, I consistently appetite as abounding bodies as accessible to accept to it. Accomplish it adjustable but additionally f*ck up things, you know? You charge that, contrarily it's boring.”
"In an ocean of opportunities, it's so accessible to get lost"
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“When I started out I was this indie artist, advancing from a jailbait bandage and accepting a bit added mainstream, but still air-conditioned indie. That was great. I was on a journey. The mural aloof afflicted a lot because all of a abrupt a lot of doors were open, a lot of bodies capital to assignment with me. I consistently say in an ocean of opportunities it's so accessible to get absent because you gotta be absolutely able in your core. Like, what do I appetite to do? What affectionate of artisan do I appetite to be? What career do I want? Especially advancing from a air-conditioned indie background, to aback accept bodies attending at you and think, "Oh, you can be a big pop star," that's such a change. So it's been demography me a while to appear aback to the amount of what I absolutely appetite to do.
“It's been absolutely fun, and I adore putting out music and experimenting, alike out in the open. I anticipate that's great. Afresh slowly, you're gonna acquisition your thing. I feel like I'm added and added addition that out now.”
Stream MØ's Aback I Was Adolescent EP below:
This account was edited and abridged for clarity.
