Søren: I don’t know what I would have done if it wasn’t music. But we did it together and we stuck together and every time we made a decision which seemed crazy it felt good. In the beginning, when we were 4, I remember us sitting together making the large decisions and thinking ‘if I was to make this decision on my own it would really require balls’. We could have been a much cooler band (laughing). Søren: The sliding doors moments is every day really. At that time, it wasn’t as popular with DJ’s as it suddenly became but if it was maybe I could have been a DJ. I’m convinced it would have been something with music, but I don’t know what it would have been. Rene: I don’t know what I would have done. So, I probably would have been in the traveling business if the boys had not hold me tight to the group. Lene: I was just finishing guide school at Mallorca meanwhile we were in the studio with Aqua but I had already paid for this guide school, so I went there for 3 months and then I came home and got offered a really nice job. Have you ever had a sliding doors moment where if you had made a different choice, you would have not been in the band? What career path might you have chosen?
Your song Turn Back Time featured on the soundtrack for the film Sliding Doors. Søren: Yes, but the time is more, how do you say it, nice. Lene: Oh Søren but that is all of our songs (laughing) Søren: I also think you wouldn’t have written it just as sexual today. We ended up being a part of the period with Spicy Girls and a lot of others. It usually shifts every 7 or 10 years and when we came out, I believe it was a lucky time and that we hit spot on a period where people were hungry for happy and easy pop music after a lot of grunge. Lene: We also talked about how music follows the world economy. There is so much high-hat in 90’s productions. Søren: I believe it would have but it probably had to be produced in a different way. Was Barbie Girl right for the time or do you think if you first released the single in 2022 it would have had the same success? But pop is difficult and more complex to define in the same way you do with rock music for instance. Of course some people do it in England or other places as well but it’s a Nordic thing is what I’ve experienced. Søren: What characterizes Nordic or Scandinavian pop music is that we write happy lyrics on minor chorus.
It is so difficult to say but a lot of great pop music is written in Scandinavia, and it could have something to do with the darkness.
Lene: I think there’s something about the four seasons and the darkness we have in the winter in the Nordics. I can’t really pinpoint one thing, but I think it’s recognizable when songs have been written in the Nordics. But I believe it has something to do with songwriting.
Søren: I believe you can hear that our music is Scandinavian. Being from Denmark and Norway, how would you describe the Scandinavian sound, and do you feel as though you fit in with this? In the UK people will often reference a Manchester sound or a Glasgow sound etc. Lene: We have so many different types of fans. Rene: I don’t think there’s many people our age who are willing to stand in the front waiting for the concert for 6-7 hours before and there are still a lot of fans doing that – that is definitely the younger ones. We’ve just been to Canada where we played our own concert where it’s also very mixed which I think is surprising. Søren: There is always a difference in playing our own concerts and playing festivals. I remember the first time we performed again after a long break that I looked out in the audience to see if it was the old fans still standing there just some years older – and luckily, they’re still there but I must say, it is teenagers in the front of the shows now. Rene: We have gotten so many new young fans and it actually surprises me. Are your fans the same ones who bought your album 25 years ago or do you have a new audience now?
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