LYKKE LI
INTERVIEW BY TARIK SALEH
PHOTOGRAPHY BY FRANK W OCKFENFELS 3
PRODUCED BY CASSIA HOFFMAN
STYLING BY LAWREN SAMPLE @ MARGARET MALDANADO
HAIR BY TONY CHAVEZ FOR LEONOR GREYL @ JED ROOT
MAKE-UP BY SARAI FISZEL FOR CHANEL @ JED ROOT
Studio: Smashbox Studios in West Hollywood, www.smashboxstudios.com
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These days, in the music biz, there’s a great measure for whether you’re what the kids are listening to. And that measure is Glee. Of course, Lykke Li’s 2011 single I Follow Rivers was belted out by Jenna Ushkowitz (Tina) on the second season of the Fox smash-hit, but that’s no real surprise. The Swedish performer has been heating up Europe since the release of her debut album Youth Novels in 2008 and her sophomore effort, Wounded Rhymes, is a Top 40 hit in the USA and Canada. She’s played at Coachella and Lollapalooza, acted her socks off in a music video with Stellan Skarsgård and even wrote a song for The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Lykke Li’s star is on the rise, and who better to check in with her on this incredible journey than someone who’s directed music videos for two of her hit singles (Sadness is a Blessing and I Follow Rivers) and considers her a good friend – man of many talents Tarik Saleh. He finds out what it’s like being Lykke Li and how she’s handling the life-changing effects of success. Oh yes, the kids are listening, and so is everyone else.
Tarik Saleh—Where do you live?
LYKKE LI—I live in a suitcase between Stockholm and wherever I have to perform.
TS—What do you eat for breakfast?
LL—If I’m at home I’ll have homemade granola with goji berries, maca powder, yogurt and when I’m away I always have coffee and tea and scrambled eggs.
TS—And what are you up to right now?
LL—I’m in Stockholm; I’ve been here for one and half days. I’m leaving tomorrow to go up north to play at a festival and then I’m going to New York to do a shoot. After that I’m going to play at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark and then I’m coming back to Stockholm, and then I’m finally going off for a small vacation with my loved ones to Portugal.
TS—How long are you going to be in New York?
LL—For about 24 hours.
TS—That’s insane.
LL—It’s intense. I’m trying to block it out because I’m too scared of what the result will be.
TS—What’s the difference between intense and insane?
LL—I think intense is just a lot, but you can handle it, but insane is when you’re doing something inhuman and you’re stepping over certain boundaries. Insane is probably the guy who first walked on the moon – nobody ever did it, but I think a few people have flown to New York back and forth to Europe in 24 hours before, so I think that’s probably just intense.
TS—Have you been insane before? Have you been in insane situations?
LL—I feel like I am almost every other day. I just got back from Glastonbury. That was insane, but I keep surviving all the time so I keep on pushing my boundaries. So many times I feel like I couldn’t possibly handle anymore and then I keep on doing it all over again. And it scares me a bit because I wonder if there’s some kind of pool inside of yourself, that runs dry, or can you just keep on going forever?
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