This song has been very popular amongst people living a less privileged life. Mayby fighting against alcohol or drug abuse. Some days or periods are then so obvously better/stronger than others. So I think "Just idag är jag stark" is very relevant in that sense.
Btw when i think of kenta coz im not sure if he singed in jail but there were a group longsitters that started in swedish jail in the 60 or 70 ies who actually maked records they were all inmates i think and met n started it when they sat. They were called jailbird singers.. you can look some of em up if u like probably here on u tube.
This song was released in 1979. Hammarby started using it as a football chant in 2003, when it was already a classic. So this song is so much more than just football and Hammarby, it's a true classic and unique in many ways. You cannot compare this to other football chants, no matter how good they may be they would never qualify as a classic like this song.
Passar utmärkt som en fotbollssång, men för mig slår den hårt för jag har långa perioder där jag är deprimerad och ibland får man en dag då man mår bra och det slår hårt för man har nästan glömt hur det känns.
Fun fact about Siw Malmkvist, she is the very first Swede to ever enter the Billboards Hot 100. She did it with the song Sole sole sole in a duett with Umberto Marcato 1964. She is a Swedish powerhouse with loads of hits in Sweden and was also popular in Germany.
I don't like Hammarby but Kenta really did amazing with this one, It's one of those songs where the singer have far from a singing voice that ever should be popular, but yet he singing is with so much emotion that you can't help but love it anyway.
I grow up in the same streets as Kenta, but a couple of decades later, was friends of his old neighbours (a lot of them). No one was a Hammarbysupporter in those area, it was AIK och DIF. Kenta is more than HIF, it was just a fling......
Hammarby support or not, it's pretty epic so stand in a stadium full of people where everybody knows the lyrics and sings this from their toes when the players enter the field
I say for stockholm teams, hammarby is the team that no one else really hates exept of course the other stockolm teams. but the rest of sweden have no genuime hate for precicely Hammarby.
Yes! This has become a real classic through the years. Not because it’s a musical masterpiece or he has the best singing voice - it has just become a cult song with the whole Swedish population! Good choice! 👏🏻🥰
Spot on with that this is very Swedish. The "ultimate" experience is of course the long Swedish winter - and then comes the first day of spring. The SUN is back! :)
Kenta is probably the most famous hippie of Sweden. He’s a mascot not only for Hammarby but for Swedish flower power and emancipation too. Rest in power, comrade Kenta!
Cool :) Kenta was a odd cat but he really loved “Bajen” :) when Hammarby is having a home game the whole stadium sings this song . Gives me goosebumps :) I live in south Sweden but I am a Bajen fan thanks to Kenta :)
Kudos for mentioning the very well researched book '1000 svenska klassiker'! That's the one I always use as a reference point on here and other places. I've discovered many great songs, films and other stuff thanks to that book. Highly recommended! It's good to see you're able to appreciate a singing voice that's not necessarily the best technically but has soul and conviction. Looking forward to the next reaction!
Jag gillar den här låten mycket och håller med om att den har extrem soul men förstår inte hur en kan tycka att Pluras och Winnerbäcks sätt att sjunga inte funkar men digga Kenta. Den ekvationen får jag inte ihop. Men alltid intressant att se reaktionerna! Tack för att du gör det här 😁
Kolla Wikipedia om Kenta och Modstriologin, tre filmer om Kentas liv som kontrast till sången. Även viss musik ur "Ett anständigt liv" kan möjligen ses som klassiker... Inför nästa avsnitt: kolla även "Pappa är lik sin pappa"
Nu är jag ju inte ditekt en stor fotbollsfantast, men jag är helt klart en stor musikfantast och blir väldigt nyfiken ifall ni i IFK använder "När månen lyser klart" av Troublemakers? Tänker eftersom att Troublemakers är IFK supportrar och att låten är en helt fantastisk hommage till Göteborg. Om inte, borde ni helt klart överväga det 😂
@@loris-bismar Tror inte jag hört just den i samband med några matcher, men ”Staden Göteborg” av Troublemakers spelas varje gång blåvitt kör hemma på Ullevi :)
@@hugolindstrom1605 aha okaj. Ja den är ju en klassiker, men månen lyser klart är bättre 😉. Melodin är ju t.o.m en omgjord version av 'du gamla, du fria' 😁. Jag skulle nog t.o.m vilja vara så fräck att kalla låten Göteborgs nationalsång 😉😄
Klassiker tips delux : Sven-Ingvars Torparrock. Sven-Ingvars är en riktigt klassisk svensk rockgrupp som bildades 1956 och som fortfarande är aktiva, dock så dog sångaren Sven-Erik Magnusson 2017 men har nu efterträtts av hans egen son och turnerandet fortsätter. Låten Torparrock är en låt med anor från 40 talet, kan det bli mer klassiskt är så? Sven-Ingvars har gjort stor succé bland så väl unga som gamla. De gjorde ett succseframträdande vid Hultsfreds festivalen bla. Texten kan förvisso vara lite svår att hänga med i då den är på dialekt, men desto större utmaning tänker jag :) Du gillar ju bred skånska, så här är en annan dialekt att utmana dig med :)
Oh yes. My dad always talks about how this is what played when he went home to get some baby things for my mother when she gave birth to my sister. Either way, he always turns up the radio and yells when this comes on.
Thåström is a big Djurgården-fan. I think he is on the CD Järnkaminerna but I don't know if any of his own songs are being used by the fans. Edit: The CD is called Blåränderna går aldrig ur
It´s tricky to translate this one, the title, the first line is a mixture between right now/just today, and it´s been translated as exactly today here. Good or bad? I don´t know. It is sung with a strong Stockholm dialect by Kenta, who also wrote the song. He became known through a trilogy about drug addicts in Stockholm in the 60s and 70s. Hammarby was his favorite team and the home crowd sings it at the beginning of each match. "Exactly today I´m strong, exactly today I feel good. I am carried forward by strong winds. Exactly today I´m strong, exactly today I feel good. I have the belief in myself by my side. I have waited so long for exactly this day, and it´s so nice that it finally comes. Waited so long for exactly this day, it gives joy when it comes. I watch the escape of the gulls. I watch the dance of the sun rays. I look forward to lovely times. I watch the step of the women. I watch the gloss of the eyes. I have the belief in myself by my side. I have waited so long exactly this day, and it´s so nice that it finally comes. Waited so long for exactly this day, it gives joy when it comes."
The choice of this song as an anthem for Hammarby was very poetic and accidental, yet perfect. Hammarby is not a team with a winning tradition, and Kenta was a massive fan. When they won the league for the first and so far only time in 2001, this is the song that Kenta choose to play during the celebration with the team at Medborgarplatsen. When he died in 2003, they decided to play this song before the game and everyone cried and sang along. Ever since, this has been played before every game. But it wasn't meant or written for it, it was just a natural homage to a massive fan, and the song just happened to be perfect as a club anthem for a struggling team with that one lonely title.
If you want another great supporter song here is one in folk-rock style for my Bandy home team: Traste Lindens Kvintett - Heja Edsbyn: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eZFOWCRdMbc.html Very local though, perhaps not a national classic. 😁
That’s a really good song. But the old classic “Heja Blåvitt” is also a great song to react to. And sorry for being a språkpolis here but it’s IFK Göteborg not Göteborgs IF. 😊
Interesting that you, that often critiques "bad voices" likes this one...so you get it at some level, it's not about polish, it's about the magic of the song.
Mamma är lik sin mamma är inte en svensk originallåt. Den är skriven av amerikaner (Raymond Gilmore, John Madara och David Whiteboarden) och Stikkan Andersson skrev svensk text. Så…kan den kallas för svensk klassiker?
En klassiker har mer att göra med hur den blev mottagen, och fastnade i folksjälen, ibland i flera generationer, än vem som skrev musiken. Det har inte så stor betydelse i sammanhanget. På den tiden på 1960-talet så var det så många hits på svenska kom till, man skrev en svensk text till en utländsk låt. Och inte bara då, t.ex en svensk sommarklassiker som "Nu grönskar det" är ju musiken skriven av Bach, och han var ju inte svensk... Den har serien heter ju inte "Amerikanen reagerar till svenska originallåtar... så han kan lyssna till svenska klassiker som "Nu grönskar det", "Mamma är lik sin mamma", "Brev från kolonien", "Balladen om herr Fredrik Åkare och den söta fröken Cecilia Lind", "34:an", "Leende guldbruna ögon", "Flickor bak i bilen" eller "Jag ger dig min morgon". Även om musiken skrevs av andra än svenskar, och att originaltexten till dessa låtar inte var på svenska.
djurgården has no working class grit man i don't like hammarby either though ever since their supporters marched through my city in a very consciously disrespectful and threatening way
