In an interview, the artist discusses evolution, experimenting with gender presentation, and a desire for play.
I don’t know. It would be lovely if it is, but I don’t know. In the past, a small right-wing party in Sweden took one of the Knife’s early songs and used it in some commercials, which was so weird because there was a lot of people complaining: “But, oh, don’t you know they’re communists?” I don’t know those things, but I hope people would see my music as a queer best friend.Your tour was filled with women and non-binary folks, and I know the last album had a lot of women collaborators on it.
It is a magical, amazing time when you are creating this world. It’s also horrible and devastating, and you want to delete everything.No. I still have only women and non-binary people in my live band. I guess it’s how it turned out this time. And I don’t know how all of my co-producers identify or I don’t know of their sexuality either. So that’s how it is.. Is that liberating?Yes, I think for this album I really have enjoyed doing the videos.
How much do you think about numbers? “How many people will watch this video?” “How many people are going to stream this album?” Is that a concern to you at all?No. I mean, it’s nice if people come to our shows because we’ve done so much work now. I hope we’re going to sell tickets for the shows. And of course, if that makes money, I can also continue working after this album to make a new one. But [those are] not things that you can take for granted.
By extension, if it doesn’t make money, will there not be a fourth Fever Ray album? Is that a possibility?No, I will probably just have to do it differently. I mean, the first Knife album we did in my basement, so I think we would make it work. But we would probably not be able to do those videos. They don’t make any money. It’s very, very expensive to do film.It’s refreshing to encounter someone who isn’t metrics-obsessed.
It’s interesting that for as varied as your career has been, a through line has been the pursuit of freedom. And, it would seem, the achievement of it.Yeah, I think I have understood that that is why I do this. It’s first just for myself to create a space where I can feel free. I’ve been working on this album for like three years and for the first two years, it was only me listening to everything. It is a magical, amazing time when you are creating this world.
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