#jaqe

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(soundcloud is a bitch, or tumblr, one of them anyways)

Jaqe - En på Miljonen

Translated as: Jaqe - One in a Million

First date, holding hands, going home, Follow through, first kiss, next time i'll follow you Thought you were going to fall but instead I fell Thought I'd stopped falling but I drowned in your eyes(and all that) It was in the bar, don't know if you remember but I looked at you and said you’re eyes were something special I asked what it meant, you said you didn't know That was the last thing I said that night before you had to go Can't always get what you want But we could have it for a moment, we could've pretended a bit more I know we will never be, but if something's pretty you can hope that there will if you just pretend Surely? I'm so naive when it comes to relations So much emotions, hard to know what to think And I'm that type that falls for the wrong people But it could work baby, one in a million.

(Chorus) And I thought it should be we, flowers and bees But everything seems to hurt, just keeps spinning I love, and I know that you love, to do the opposite of what is expected

It's like watching the worlds most beautiful sunrise Feels like the horizon is only 500 meters away Trying to be poetic, and to give it some meaning But everything feels cliché, nothing lasts forever They say that time will heal you see, many fishes in the sea Nothing's that simple, Many’s fishing in the sea and somebody's going to catch you, tuck you in and take you away, Give you everything, marry you and never regret Shit.. this town feels too small, And now it feels even smaller when I know that you’re here Having troubles thinking straight, I was focused on the music I thought I heard your voice and I see you everywhere Yeah, why do we want what we can't have? And when you got it, it's something that you won’t choose Nothing happened but I wanted to believe it That it could actually work, like one in a million.

Katarsis (EP) AnnaMelina Released: May 24th, 2016 TrainRec AB / Universal Music Sverige AB Words:Peter Quincy Ng

Auto-tune, the ubiquitous pitch-bending vocoder that so famously appears in hip-hop and pop music has always been met with much criticism. Enter Sweden’s Anna Melina Åkerman Kvie, who takes back the notion that auto-tune is simply for “bad singing”. With her digitally-encoded heartbreak, appearing across the board on her latest EP “Katarsis”, AnnaMelina turns her pitch-bent vocals into a thing of beauty: brilliantly nuanced both in emotion and sound. Focusing on a beat-driven sound,  that’s subtly Scandinavian, Anna’s electronic elements never resort to excess, and her sound is for the textured self-reflection than that of the dance floor. Slow and spacious, her hip-hop-flavored production undulates under surging waves of bass and drum pads. Spilling out over a dreamy façade, AnnaMelina drops five songs of liquid cool på svenska, the last one which features a collaboration with Swedish rapper Jaqe. “RN” Notably Anna’s most aurally-arresting track, “RN” is a bumping piece where hook-heavy choruses and Åkerman’s vocoded sound take front stage. Using her repetition for emphasis, AnnaMelina’s driving drum snares steer through the puncturing keys and lurking bass as she sings in Swedish, "Det här betyder inget särskilt/ Du ljuger om att vara ärlig och om jag ska vara ärlig så är det slut, så är det / Du kan inte ta mig" (This means nothing in particular/ You lie about being honest and if I'll be honest, it's over, that's it. You cannot take me), again and again for emphasis. It’s a song that’s aptly-suited for the album’s title, struggling to break free from  both lies and the truth. Check out AnnaMelina’s live take of the track below:

“Snöflingor” A downtempo follow-up to AnnaMelina’s opener, “Snowflakes” moves along more gradually as her pitch-bent legato blurs the track into a dreamy daze. Following a surging, wave-like progression, the track contracts and expands; first to a decrescendo, then midway building-up with its synths to a snaring climax in a haze of vocal ethereality.

“Lila Himmel” Perhaps Åkerman Kvie’s most vocal performance on the record, “Purple Sky” is a cold and crisp track that showcases all of AnnaMelina has to offer. A wintery track with its piano keys crystallizing over the crumble of AnnaMelina’s emotion, the hip-hop flavored production is what makes AnnaMelina’s genre-hybridized sound so unique, from the drums to the vocal staccato of her rap-game drill. Check out AnnaMelina’s fluid delivery as she oozes over the scenic backdrops, which yes, do feature purple skies:

“Stormens Öga” It’s not a track which you would associate with a turbulent title like “The Eye of the Storm” its a track that instead oozes over an uneasy calm. It’s a retreating track, but one that glimmers with its frozen ambiance of its wintery chimes over the battered emotion of Åkerman.