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August 29, 2008

Lykke Li Visits Late Night

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Artist To Watch Lykke Li gave Americans the first opportunity to watch her on late night TV last night. The buzz Swede visited Studio 6A, where she performed icy dance pop tune "Breaking It Up" with an invisible choir. Looks like Lykke won over Conan with her megaphone and patented wacky moves. Of course you may have been otherwise engaged, so here's what you missed.

For your Labor Day BBQ playlist:
Lykke Li - "Little Bit" (MP3)
Lykke Li - "Little Bit" (Loving Hand Remix) (MP3)

Youth Novels recently got a stateside release on Atlantic, and Ms. Li will be taking it on tour this fall. Itinerary at LySpace.

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Her and Cat Power should have a dance off

Posted by: Anonymous at 08/29/08 5:01 PM | Reply
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OLD SCHOOL RULES

Posted by: Greg in reply to Anonymous's comment at 09/03/08 10:15 PM | Reply
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Fuck the megaphone! It was a nice gimmick when I saw her live a few weeks back but now it's just annoying!

Posted by: Sander at 08/29/08 5:47 PM | Reply
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grace6697

how is her name pronounced?

i want to be sure i'm saying it right when i'm telling people how meh she is.

Posted by: grace6697 profile link at 08/29/08 6:03 PM | Reply
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lickety split

Posted by: Anonymous at 08/29/08 6:35 PM | Reply
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If you want my body
and you think i'm sexy
come on sugar
let me know

Posted by: Anonymous at 08/29/08 6:50 PM | Reply
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Her name is pronounced "Rod Stewart"

Posted by: Anonymous at 08/29/08 6:52 PM | Reply
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Absolute fucking garbage. Learn how to sing on key bitch!

Posted by: Katy Perry at 08/29/08 8:07 PM | Reply
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I'm thinking it's Luke-AY Lee. At least that's what the drunk Swedish dude at the CC Club told me.

Posted by: Jodifer at 08/29/08 8:13 PM | Reply
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Lookee hea

Posted by: Anonymous at 08/29/08 8:48 PM | Reply
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I don't get the fascination with her. I suppose she's cute, but I don't think she can sing for shit and I'm not into her songs at all. Different strokes...

Posted by: Graytness at 08/30/08 12:34 AM | Reply
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I thought her name was pronounced "Luke-ee lee"...

Posted by: Art at 08/30/08 4:43 AM | Reply
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Is it just me or does she...
A) Suck
B) Look like a crazy old man in that screen grab

Posted by: Lucretius at 08/30/08 9:42 AM | Reply
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That's an unfortunate national TV debut!
– I've seen her twice live and she's put on extremely impressive performances... and sang on key. The megaphone doesn't help this song. It's odd that her two live recordings; this and the iTunes London Festival represent her so poorly.

To the naysayers she's worth a second shot. And Conan pronounced her name correctly – lik ee lee

Posted by: MF McNutt at 08/30/08 10:21 AM | Reply
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No sir, i don't Lykke

Posted by: Anonymous at 08/30/08 2:53 PM | Reply
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you have taken my penchant for puns to adorable heights.

Posted by: buns profile link in reply to Anonymous's comment at 08/31/08 7:32 PM | Reply
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I had already heard like one song of hers and I downloaded the mp3 in this post... she doesn't sound as bad as in the video!

Guess it's just another "studio artist"

Posted by: d33r profile link at 08/30/08 4:44 PM | Reply
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So I downloaded "I'm Good, I'm Gone", the original "Breaking it Up", "Dance Dance Dance", added to like 8 plays of "Little Bit", and I think it sounds fairly good and interesting to be pop.... definitely better than Robin!

She deserves another chance.

Does anyone else thinks her falsetto sounds like the chick from High Places?

Posted by: d33r profile link at 08/30/08 5:11 PM | Reply
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Her little dance at the beginning is adorable but her voice is dreadful.

Posted by: tia at 08/31/08 3:42 PM | Reply
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dancing calls to mind michael stipe from the losing my religion video

Posted by: erik at 08/31/08 11:33 PM | Reply
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Wow! (not the good wow)... sweden has officially run out of good music... to the outskirts they go, looking for young farm girls that went from galloping on pigs to singing in the studio... her new album should be called pig farms in sweden... lick that lickee!!

Posted by: louis at 09/01/08 5:08 PM | Reply
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The Y in 'Lykke' is a sound not found in the English language, I'm afraid, so please don't even try. 'Lykke' means, roughly speaking, 'happiness', and with the suffix '-lig' (pronounced, like 'Li', 'lee') you have the adjective 'happy'. Neither 'Lykke' nor 'Li' are names. So basically, her name is apun without the double entendre.

Posted by: Christopher at 09/01/08 7:02 PM | Reply
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i miss annie

Posted by: lucky luke at 09/02/08 6:05 AM | Reply
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You're right about the Swedish "y". It's not found in the English language, but it can be found simply by going halfway from "ooo" to "eee". Then apply you'r "yyy" where needed!

As for Lykke and Li, they are both real names.
There are 393 women called Lykke in Sweden, and 2017 with the first name Li.

Lykke and Li are both her real names.
So is Timotej ("Timothy grass"), by the way.
And with her father calling himself "ZilverZurf", I guess I could buy your theory about her name being a pun ...

Posted by: WildApache at 09/02/08 4:05 PM | Reply
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Brandon Mylenek, is that you?
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/local_idiot_to_post_comment_on

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