“I write to get things out of my head,” she explains.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You’ve been teasing a sequel toLady Woodsince last year.
It’s very honest and personal to me.
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I feel like I’m turning over a new leaf with it.
[Producer] Ali Payami and I experiment a lot when we’re working together.
It became the sound that inspired the rest of the melodies for me.
It’s almost [worth] listening to backwards because of the order that things happened in my life.
“Pitch Black” is about this heartbreak that I went through, whichLady Woodis also about.
What’s it like, then, releasing a song like “9th of October” now?
That is about the final goodbye in a relationship being so heartbroken but trying to remember the good things.
It’s going to be hard to perform live.
But it also shows how, no matter what, your heart will always heal.
Which I’m very happy about!
This is not where I see us going!"
I write to get things out of my head.
What happens when you’re open is that other people open up too.
People are going to know all this stuff about me, but it’s never really bothered me.
Writing and recording and making the song is my process of working through [what I’m experiencing].
It becomes easier to share with people.
Yournew album coverseems like it’sthisclose to not being able to be shown on TV.
I’m just going to keep doing what I like.
And in Sweden, we don’t really censor that way.
When I didTRL, they were so excited they got to say “Disco Tits” on the air.
They said it a million times, they had so much fun with that.
They were like, “It’s great getting to push the envelope a little bit.”
It makes people question why we can’t saytits.
Why can’t we say that?
People get excited about not having to stay within the rules so much, and I enjoy that.
But they didn’t say anything about that.
It’s going to be…. how do I describe it without revealing too much?
It’s going to be my visual aesthetic but with a different agenda.
What inspired the format change?
You worked with him on “Fairy Dust” and “Fire Fade.”
Is he still your creative director?Not now that was the final thing we did together.
We were like, “This is our last journey!”
We’ve been working so much, it’s just time to split ways work-wise at least.
We’re still really good friends.
And it was such a great idea and a fun, weird shoot.
For something you paid for yourself, it looks expensive.Itwasexpensive!
When are you all going to do a song together?
Wouldn’t that Swedish government pay for that?
I’m very proud of my girls.
I’m going to bring it up in every interview until it happens.Well, there is a remix plan.
There will be a version of “Bitches” that you will enjoy.
