My Stockholm-born father blogged about this video recently and I was immediately captivated in all its prosodic glory (aka “Swedishness”). It’s a collaboration of a few mainstream Swedish musicians – none of whom, by the way, are actually living in the conditions portrayed in the video. But that doesn’t bother me – having wind beneath her wings didn’t mean Bette Midler could actually fly…

Anyway, love the engagement created strictly through the modulation and timbre of the language itself (at least for a non-Swedish speaker). Plus they made rap in Swedish sound good. Even my father was impressed they pulled that off.

(It’s about questioning the typical idea of what makes one’s life happy. Consider that a rough interpretation.)

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