Friday

We got the photos from the photo shoot, today. After many hours of discussing back and forth we could all agree on one picture. It is really difficult to find a picture where all four of us like ourselves, so out of hundreds of photos taken, there is often only a couple we can use. But those few are good!

We didn’t get much more done today. Played our Melodifestival song a couple of times, wrote on our Expressen blog, and called it a day.
This weekend we are of to different places. Lisa is going to Halmstad, Anna and Malin to Gothenburg, and Caisa is working on her new apartment. On Monday we are meeting up in Helsingborg to write some songs.

A new Calaisa member

Our rehearsals doesn't look like they used to before... In the middle of your solo you might discover that one of you shoes are about to disappear into the mouth of Malin's new friend, Vilja. She's the sweetest dog on earth despite a few half eaten gloves and wee on the floor, and it's a nice addition to our band. It’s a lot of work to have a dog, and it’s not always easy to find someone who can look after her while we are away on gigs and promotion and such. Lucky we have friends and family that can help.

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.)