Swedish pop composer Jenny Wilson will finally return this fall with the proper follow-up to her 2009 sophomore album, Hardships!. The upcoming full-length, Demand the Impossible!, takes its title from an inspirational slogan spray-painted by students during the 1968 Paris uprisings: “Be realistic, demand the impossible!”
“What else can one do when you’re a citizen in a society that’s fucked up?” Wilson asks in a statement. Of course, her answer is to demand the impossible.
The one-time Knife associate stumbled across a photograph of the graffiti in a magazine, it struck something deep in her which would form the concept of her fourth studio album. After recently overcoming breast cancer, the 38 year-old singer-songwriter identified the civil unrest that existed in France with her own personal struggle. She related the chaos and the revolutionary currents of the historical event with her own body and illness. She states, “My body became a society in disorder. I had to rise, had to fight, had to start a rebellion against it”.