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Intensity and violence is as much part of the Copenhagen import\u2019s musicality as is beauty. Don\u2019t let her pop sound fool you; punk rock has been part of M\u00d8\u2019s life since she was 14. In fact, the songstress cites Sonic Youth as the biggest creative influence in her life \u2013 lyrically and perhaps aesthetically.<\/p>\n
[blockquote author=MO]\u201cLive, you tell your stories face to face with your audience, you have to look them in the eyes and let go at the same time. It becomes intense and violent in a whole new way, which is the beauty of it.\u201d[\/blockquote]<\/p>\n
And perhaps it is these punk sensibilities that led to her name being frequently mentioned with the idea of rebellion against perfection and convention. \u201cI am very pleased to hear so!\u201d says M\u00d8 about her rebellious nature. She goes on to say, \u201cIt wasn\u2019t really planned, but I can see now that in my unconsciousness I\u2019ve been striving to fight perfection and our idea of perfection in this modern western crazy society. People get uptight and cursed with lifestyle diseases in their struggle to have everything. I think it\u2019s the little cracks that makes people beautiful and makes me fall for them \u2018cause it\u2019s the flaws which indicates that you\u2019re dealing with a human being.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her willingness to flaunt all her \u201cflaws\u201d to the world is exactly what has pushed M\u00d8 to the top. Even the production of her album remains true to her message. Recorded almost entirely in her bedroom, No Mythologies to Follow<\/i> is a testament to embracing the raw and genuine side of our natures. \u201cI love to record vocals on my own, in an environment where I can just let go, be myself, and dive into the vibe of the song and the feelings or thoughts lying behind the lyrics,\u201d says the artist about her rejection of a traditional studio sound. Striving to be authentic in a world that reveres facades is exactly what M\u00d8 fans seem to relate to when they shout along to her unfiltered lyrics. If you get the chance to see M\u00d8 perform live, you will understand exactly what makes her and her music so infectious. Onstage, she dances with a unique brand of reckless abandon while her vocals soar and lilt and tear through the crowd. There\u2019s no choreography, no attempt to be perfect. M\u00d8 is simply being herself, and the audience adores that. In fact, when she jumps into the crowd, she is carried on and on by a thousand hands. Her limbs flailing, braided ponytail coming undone.<\/p>\n
And in that extraordinary and candid moment, M\u00d8 inspires us all to find the beauty in being perfectly imperfect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[small_title title=”GIRL WITH A REBEL AGENDA”] Danish singer\/songwriter M\u00d8 (n\u00e9e Karen Marie \u00d8rsted) lives by the philosophy that perfection is overrated, and her album serves as the anthem for the disillusioned youth everywhere passionately fighting against the expected and mundane. M\u00d8\u2014Nordic for \u201cmaiden\u201d and inspired by a grandfather\u2019s artistic legacy (pronounced as the first part of \u201cmercy\u201d)\u2014intended her debut album […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49],"tags":[105],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-mo"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saoQFa-mo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}