They expect from me what I expect from them. I’m just a normal person from Norway who writes music. She laughs, shakes it off and returns: "My fans see me as an angel, but I’m not an angel. I love the way that they give me a lot of love – more than I usually get. "I wouldn’t be here without them, and I need them as much as they think they need me. "It’s amazing that I have fans, I love them all," she beams with a wide-eyed smile. Look at the front rows of an Aurora gig or scroll through some Youtube comments and you'll find nothing but love and hopeless devotion. So much so that the fanatical drive and dedication of her following has earned them the official name of 'Warriors and Weirdos'. The lofty ambitions of her aesthetic and the sonic realm she rules over have indeed had that very divisive reaction she was hoping for. I want people to be so passionate that they either love it or hate it, but when a grown man picks on a 19-year-old girl from Norway – that’s a bit funny!" You get a lot of good and bad feedback and bad feedback can be exciting, but it’s funny how people put things. "I don’t want to be effected or become cocky – is that a bad word? "I try not to pay attention to anything that people say," she shrugs. Even Alan McGee was less than pleased - telling us that while he was glad of Noel Gallagher's Christmas royalties, he found her rendition ultimately 'rubbish'. Fans took online to either fawn over her angelic take on it, or to spit acid at what she'd whitewashed over all the grit. Such exposure and taking on a track by a band with such a tribal following was only ever going to inspire some pretty extreme reactions. It put her on a much larger platform and provided her with a very enviable level of exposure for an artist who was about to release her debut album.
That's why she took up the challenge in the first place (“I didn’t even know what John Lewis was…for real," she admits."īut it turns out having the soundtrack to the John Lewis Christmas advert is in fact, a pretty big deal.
That same dreamlike sense of wonder and escapism is what elevated her cover of Oasis' 'Half The World Away', to make it so universal that it could go beyond any notion of a 'cynical festive ad campaign' to worm its way into the hearts of so many. It’s very important to embrace your inner quirkiness and he helped me to not be ashamed of anything." "David Bowie himself is just a hero, isn’t he?," she continues. Just don't allow her vision and eccentricities to paint her as a cartoon. You can tell by the wonder with which she views her surroundings and the situation that she's found herself in, this just-turned-20 Nordic phenomenon is quite simply sees everything as an adventure. This journey in sound and vision is far from contrived, however.
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