Photo shoot

We have been working since 9 this morning with Micke Eriksson in his studio in Stockholm. Right now we are having a Thai-food-break to get some energy, after many hours of shooting. The pictures are beautiful! We had a peep at them.
Yesterday we met with Marie, the stylist, and checked out her ideas about our clothes. She had made sketches from the requests and reference pictures we sent her a few weeks ago, and she had really done a great job. We are going to look fantastic in the Melody Grand Prix, if I may say.

Hair

Being 4 girls, much time tend go to things that doesn't have to do with our music. Such as make-up, clothes, and HAIR. We spent most of our Saturday at Larsson & Lange with Peter, our personal hairdresser. Coming up this week, you see, is a photo shoot for the single cover, and according to Peter our hair needed to be done! It's good that he works so fast. Today we are off to Stockholm to check out what clothes our stylist has brought out for us, and tomorrow... photo shoot.

Singing class

In our singing class last week, we learned a new, very efficient exercise. Monica calls it "the Italian", and it means you sing the song in at least 4 times the tempo. Sounds very fun, but it actually makes you more focused together. There is a chance this will be our new preparation method before gigs...

Song writing with Karl Gunér

Yesterday around noon Karl Gunér came down from Gothenburg to have a song writing session with us. After lunch at Di Penco we went to Malin's apartment and stayed there the whole rest of the day, trying to be productive. It took a while, and the inspiration seemed to be far away, but little by little a song started to emerge. We actually started with one chorus, but when we tried to write a verse for it, we noticed that the two parts didn't fit very well together. The verse though, felt more inspiring, so we stuck to it and made a new chorus instead. Sometimes you can't control your creativity and mood. We simply felt more like writing a cool, half-tempo song, than a soft ballad, this time.

Beauty weekend

This weekend we treated ourselves at our friend Susan's place "ABC hudvård" where we relaxed and hade our faces taken care of. It's so nice to be spoiled for two hours and just think about nothing. A pity you can't do it once a week, but there is always regular back massage and pedicure. (There is no use doing manicure when you are a musician. Play one gig and your nails are totally destroyed, so we stick to the other treatments.)

Mix Megapol

Today we went up early and paid a visit to the radio station Mix Megapol in Malmoe. By now we know Henrik, Patrick and Susanna quite well, and it's always a good laugh to be guests in their morning show.

Rehearsing

Yesterday we spent the whole day in Stockholm preparing for the Melodifestival, starting with the choreographer, Tine. We worked with our performance for an hour or so, and then we took a cab to Micke, the photographer and had a chat wit him. After that we went to Marie, the woman who will help us with our clothes. She measured us up and we had a good look in their huge wardrobe for inspiration.
The day ended with a nice dinner at an Italian restaurant we love. We are becoming regulars there, even though we live in Malmö.


Today rehearsals at Malins place.