Disclaimer: The music I am about to put up here may not be very good, but I'm sharing these because they remind me of various portions of my trip to Scandinavia, and it's nice to keep the memories.
Alexander Rybak - Fairytale
Alexander Rybak from Oslo won the Eurovision 2009 with this folksy-pop song called Fairytale. Our prof showed us this video in class just before we left for the trip and it already left a bit of an impression on me. He's pretty huge in Scandinavia. I saw his posters everywhere in shopping malls and music stores...and heard the instantly recognisable Fairytale in many places. Personally, I prefer his other songs, like Kiss and Tell or Funny Little World.
Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
Ciccy and I got a big kick out of singing and gesturing this song during our ride on the Flam railway. I went a bit ballistic when I heard this song on the radio while grocery shopping in the supermarket at Geilo (Yay-low), and then again while buying non-fat yoghurt ice-cream at a 7-11 store in Bergen.
The Rasmus - In the Shadows
This song is on the list because of Rifai's amazing story about how his friend went to a Rasmus concert in KL. (The Rasmus is Finnish). She had front row tickets...one thing led to the next...and somehow she managed to hook up with the lead guitarist. 6 months later, his friend got married to the band member and had a baby. This ALL happens while she's still in uni...It IS possible to marry a rockstar. Haha.
Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl
This song is here because the American guy, who we bumped into at the Stockholm hostel AND the Helsinki hostel kept humming this song. 3 days after returning home, the song is STILL stuck in my head. (One thing I've learnt thru staying at the hostels is that you can ALWAYS recognise an American just by the sheer amount of noise he/she makes. Americans are loud and obnoxious.)
Random Country Music
They played some good ol' American country music at the ultra-hip and funk Beyond Retro at Stockholm's Södermalm district (one of my favourite places for this trip).
Village People - Y.M.C.A.
LFO - Summer Girls
Karaoke Hour at Tallink Silja's Club Bali. It was painful.
LFO - Summer Girls
This song came up on my playlist during one of the long bus rides (i think it was the 3 hour ride from Heddal Stave Church to the mountain cabin on Geilo. Christine went into a fit when she heard this.
Edit: I was just wiki-ing the band LFO and saw this...
On June 3, 2009, LFO posted a blog entitled "LFO IS BACK" on their official MySpace page which announced that they have reunited and are going on tour starting on July 9, 2009, with Rookie of the Year, Go Crash Audio, and Kiernan McMullan.[4] At the moment, they only have east-coast tour dates, but they are working on getting to the west-coast too. A new song was posted in a bulletin called Summer Of My Life.
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