Frida Hyvönen Kvinnor och Barn

Building a career on singing in English and then switching to your native tongue is way more trickier than you would think. Not all succeeds with this task. However, swedish singer-songwriter Frida Hyvönen is doing it. The first single from her upcoming album "Kvinnor och Barn" (Women and Children), entitled "Imponera På Mig" (Impress Me), is a testament of her skills as a songwriter and lyricist.

With the new record, Hyvönen takes another rather unexpected turn, as the single is clearly R&B-influenced with its rhythmical vocal arrangements, repetitive chorus and sparse instrumentation, and then you add the empowering lyrics of an independent woman tackling with the insecurities of her partner. Nothing but excellence compressed into 3 minutes and 30 seconds. As Frida embodies her Nordic roots both in dialect and lyrics, you can’t help but to be delighted and this truly feels like the start of something grand.

01 Sjön
02 Imponera på mig
03 Balkongmannen
04 Förlorat dig
05 Alla vet att det är vackert i Paris
06 Vänner i vardagen
07 Kommer du?
08 Drömmen om dig
09 Min stad
10 Kvinnor och barn
11 Fredag morgon
12 Amors förkastliga pilar

Via her facebook page, Frida sent this message for her non-swedish-speaker fans:

"I, as you might have noticed, have a new album out, and it's in Swedish. I am sorry to have disappointed you. I remember how I felt when my teenage crush Vanessa Paradis went back to singing in french. That said: if you can step out of your bitter cloud of jealousy, hatred + feelings of betrayal for a moment, and listen when I say: I WILL be writing in english again. Nothing's been lost. The best is yet to come. In the meantime, take swedish lessons or use google translate, goddammit."