And sometimes that’s subconscious, sometimes not, says Oslo-based singer Anna of the North: “I must’ve heard all their songs a million times, so it’s impossible for me not to be inspired by them. “I think a lot of Scandipop writing techniques originate from picking apart Abba songs,” says Dagny. Such is their vast legacy, the group has continued to inform the structure and style of Scandi pop music ever since. Songs that are written by Swedish songwriters and producers are considered Swedish in origin, and the report found that they are mostly played (27 per cent) in North America, suggesting that the pop charts are firmly in their glacial grip. Fast forward to 2021 and a recent report by Export Music Sweden found that Sweden especially is now the second-highest exporter of music in the world, after the US and ahead of the UK. A year later, the high priestess of them all, Robyn, returned to claim her throne with her first album in almost a decade, Honey.Īnd that’s not counting the vast number of pop architects behind the scenes, in the studio.
Cast your mind back to the heady days of 2017 and you couldn’t move for new Scandipop stars jostling for space: Sweden’s Zara Larsson and Tove Lo, Norway’s Sigrid, Denmark’s MØ among them. There’s Abba, of course, but in recent years, the march on world domination has intensified. Every now and again, Scandipop has super-troopered its way into the global pop charts and stolen hearts with its sublime catchiness.
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