“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” -Antonio Gramsci

…and then, of course, there’s:

“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” –William Butler Yeats

I now want to share a music video that is better than most films I’ve seen, accompanied by a track that I have loved for a very long time. I do enjoy my musical Swedes. This tune by Fever Ray depicts so much painful, addictive, complicated love, while The Hives usually make me want to go out to destroy schoolyard swingsets and then be utterly inappropriate to some strange guy who’s merely standing at a bus stop (not like I’ve done that, of course). Sahara Hotnights, meanwhile, compelled me to stop everything I was doing several years ago and just learn how to play the drums once and for all. I guess ABBA (not linking to them) might be part of my musical-Swede enjoyment, because how could they not be?

Robyn is a supremely gifted artist, and Royksopp produce incredible tunes, so a collaboration between them would inevitably result in a song that yoinks tears from my eyes while I’m also imagining how I’d dance to it with my outdated moves. All of this combined with this glorious masterpiece of a video, which I would never have imagined to accompany the track, I’m basically soaking my pillow at night if I even stop to think about all of it.

And all of it’s going to get better; it has to.

Love

Nadya