Why is pop music so good so suddenly? Jens Lekman offers a musical explanation:
Some things you just go through. You don’t write about it, you don’t turn it into art because it can’t be turned into art. I didn’t write any songs [in 2008] because you can’t pour manure into an espresso machine and expect a cappucino to come out. When they announced the [election] results and the streets filled up with people celebrating I felt happy to be part of something bigger than myself. It was a feeling that lasted me until the very last days of December 2008 when I finally sat down in my old teenage room at my parents house and I wrote this song. Then the year ended.
