Seven danish hits that deserved international succes before Lukas Graham

Who's Lukas Graham?

I hardly know to be honest

kliché - militskvinder

read this as "Sven Danish..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws1HYz7ojr0

Have there really been no international Danish hits?! What about that rap trio from a few years back?

There was Aqua

And Junior Senior

What about that rap trio from a few years back?

― Tuomas, 1. april 2016 18:00 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Outlandish?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0nFTdKlKLw

These guys were big in Japan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY6XX6ayofw

Alphabeat?

I sort of dig how Sweden had ABBA, Norway had A-ha and Denmark had Aqua. Four characters, starts with an A and ends with an A, that's the scandi-pop formula.

"Ambition" by Donkeyboy should totally be on that list.

*sorry, "Ambitions"

Except Donkeyboy are from Norway. Oops!

Aqua half-norwegian

Superstar is a classic and was a staple of my years as a deeply unpopular pop DJ. "Cause you move like you got some kind of choreographer" remains one of the most awkward lines committed to record though

the legendary Calabria/Destination Unknown was defo Danish, not sure if it's pop though

#28 on the US Billboard pop chart

anyway I voted for the NU song, for nostalgic reasons, but of course the real winner should be superstar

Safri Duo and Toy-Box were also Danish, hmmm

That NU album is a personal favourite. A couple of years later they'd have probably been a lot more successful.

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Lucas Graham nominated for Grammy record of the year, song of the year, and best pop duo/group performance for "7 Years" ...so schmaltzy

never forget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d1iXSCKu6Q

i think if you collected every trait i have disliked about everyone i have ever met and merged them into one person it would be Lukas Graham, fuck this guy

this is the worst music ever

from the worst country ever

Well this was a prescient thread revive

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lukas-grahams-singer-on-growing-up-in-denmarks-anarchist-utopia-20160527

hands up who thought christiania was a good idea

I went to christiania once. It cost like 200 dollars (10 jillion kroner) or something. As soon as I stepped inside I got a phone call that a family member had died.

Wait i am mixing it up with tivoli

Christiania is fucking weird though. Hippie murals and whimsical architecture but filled with skinhead drug dealers.

it's almost like

I can't stop hearing their fucking hit at university functions.

haha, it is the worst indeed, even worse than Sheeran, I think

trying to think of any good Danish music other than Mew is fiendishly hard

https://open.spotify.com/user/betamaxdk/playlist/7wFqd2VjQ1ngPV4K4fwuGP

you're welcome

Oh look, The Raveonettes! *side-eye*

I guess Frisk Frugt is decent

OK, I'm listening, and judging

haha, cool - let me know if you find something you like

Ugh, I had forgotten how much I hate Uden Forsvar.

dear god, danish hip-hop

didn't mind Trentemoller and there was something else that threatened to be ok but I've not loved anything yet

ok having subjected myself to over 2 hours of danish music i feel both qualified and justified in saying the following

there's a certain kind of thomas kinkade corniness to much of this stuff, like denmark is basically made of passive-aggressively sweet fairy-stories and supercilious feelgood swagger. and when it goes for something more kinetic it's even worse. you could call it 'sunglasses pop' - let alone dead-eyed, it's no-eyed

the song by superheroes is a case in point. both insipid and rapey. a sort of horrendous uncanny-valley facsimile of us/uk pop. the band saybia is another genuine horror show. why can't they at least sing in danish? when the mew song started the feeling of relief was extraordinary. music has broken out!

sorry for insulting your great nation but this really has been traumatic for me. like, i'm sure not *all* danish music is this bad, but it really does make me wonder. i've listened to every track here and it's just endless misery

take it away, lars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtvgfGcIDMI

Oh, the Superheroes song pretty much the only one I like :( Saybia is horrible.

Medina's been making great brooding pop for 10 years now. Kun For Mig was in my opinion the ultimate Scandinavian pop single of the late 00s. But everything she's done is highly listenable. Her danish language stuff in any case

Denmark did give us King Diamond/Merciful Fate.

haha, you're funny imago

I love all the songs on that list, and I don't really understand your take, but I appreciate the effort you put into this

I remember listening to some awful Danish prog band from the 70s, who were singing in Danish and being really annoyed that it sounded so much like English but with no English words.

Savage Rose totally rocks when Anabel is singing

Anisette, I mean

I remember talking to some guy who was like "I don't really listen to pop, but you can't deny that Lukas Graham has talent and international class". I really didn't know what to say.

Anyway i'm really out of the loop when it comes to danish music, but I think imago is spot on. I really only listen to danish music when I feel like listening to something in my own language.

When I moved to Denmark I made an effort to go through the top 25 Danish albums as per RYM. This was a quite satisfying experience, no doubt helped by the fact that about half of that list is King Diamond/MF and I also already knew Artillery and Saturnus very well, but a very pleasant discovery was at least that Mew (despite their stupid name and their supremely punchable look) is an absolutely awesome band esp on Frengers .

In a world of Chainsmokers, Drake, Imagine Dragons and Ed Sheeran it’s a tad unfair to hold Lukas Graham against the Danes in general.