Seams like Johanna still the same woman unaffected by fame. You can see clearly through her soul. And she still a very nice sister too. . . Is her personality that makes her so enchanting. God bless them both.
Over the decades I've only really followed 3 music groups.....The Beatles, Abba and First Aid Kit. Saw First Aid Kit in Melbourne live 2018. Fantastic. Look forward to their next project.
For English...to not be their first language, their American accent, is absolutely spot on. There is absolutely no hint, of a Swedish accent. Beautiful performers...beautiful music. So refreshing to hear singers...who can actually sing and have true talent, in this day and age. Their music is very mature, compared to todays youth sound. And what is really impressive...is for a young duo, to have actually heard of Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons. These Swedish girls know more about past American music, than American kids. And...their English is better.
paul mayle Thats's an argument ??, 'it's rubbish'. You are very young. Try giving some examples to support your comment. I never listen to the radio, by the way. Also i'm 62 so my choice in music is possibly different to yours.
Are you dense? Have you ever visited a music school? ALL of them can sing like that. And even amateur bar acts can sing live. The question is rather: "which artist canNOT sing live and why are you 62 and have no clue about singing?"
I love it when really young people say "when I was really young." Especially funny when a 5-year-old says it, but anything up to 30 is good for a laugh.
the worst part about having discovered a band as great as first aid kit many years ago is that I have yet to find a band that comes close to being as good as them :(
Class act shocking I came across them by mistake there vocals are just savage why there not on the bigger picture on folk music is beyond me name 2 female vocalist that would match them as a unit there ain't any roll on Waterford altogether now gig .
This is sooo strange. Two Swedish viking Girls hailing from Stockholm singing Americana and American folk. I cannot Believe it. They even sing and play very well.
There's another band that plays American blues songs written by actual African Americans. The band is from London Ing ga land. I can't believe it either! And to top it all off, they can play their own instruments too! They are touring the UK at the moment, I think they call themselves the Rolling Stones. It might be worth checking them out.
Patrick Megan check out Larkin Poe. (you sound like you like open tuning blues) Two sisters playing American southern rock and blues who are from the deep south of the U.S. and play their own lap steel and all the other instruments on their record and work with Elvis Costello, Steven Tyler, Bob Seger etc. They are indie so don't get on TV much.
I have listened to Larkin Poe and yes they are great but they hail fom US and also from the South where blues originates from. But when I listen to these two siblings coming from a strange country called Sweden where this kind of Music are never Heard. Besides English is not their native tounge.
FAK is great! Looking forward to their concert at the Greek theatre here in L.A. Interesting how the EU is keeping blues, and rock alive. Less so here in the states. FAK has a major U.S. record company behind them, and record in L.A. Larkin Poe are signed in Germany. Funny world.
With regard to why they sound so American: There are lots of replies about subtitling American shows, and learning English in school, but surely there is also a linguistic reason for it? If two languages have basically the same sounds (vowels, consonants) then it is much easier to transition between them. I think you could have the same teaching methods, and TV subtitling, in Italy (for instance) and not produce the same result. Also, one of the influences on the American accent, along with English, Irish, Scottish, German, etc, was Swedish/Nordic. It's said that Minnesotans still sound a bit Scandinavian :) And don't forget the Vikings were in America 500 years before Columbus :)
Think you're on to something here. It is way more simple for swedish speaking people to get into english or say german, french or italian. That said, during the last 500 years it was mostly german and french. You americans came late:)
@@user-mv6he6gl8m I think you're missing the point here - why they speak English with an American accent and not a British one. The answer is probably that the younger generation have seen so many U.S. films on cinema and TV; and of course also listening to American artists. Maybe that's the English accent kids are being taught at school these days - it wasn't like when I went to school.
Love em, but I'm curious how they developed such (nearly) perfect american accents in their English. You can't even tell that they're scandinavian when they sing.
As we swedes start learning english in school at 9 years old the mayority of us learn it really well. You can most often hear a quite strong scandinavian accent when we speak as many of us are a bit rusty and stick to our "melody" of speaking even in the english and I also think most of us don't mind having a swedish accent and don't aim for sounding english or american but... it's different when we sing as it is reciting a text I think. It makes us more comfortable. Let's just say that we have the skill to speak without an accent but most of us don't bother.
American tv shows with subtitles in Swedish. Friends etc. simple as that. Swedes often have pretty good accents when transitioning to English (american)
They may have had an American teacher in primary school. I have a relative from Croatia who speaks English with an American accent as she had American teachers all the way thru school in Croatia.
The biggest reason for swedes speaking English well is that we put subtitles on all American and English televisions shows instead of dubing them like they do in many countries like Germany Italy France spain.
Go check out Zara Larsson, Alexander Skarsgård, Joel Kinnaman, or any internationally known Swede for that matter and listen to their accents. People doesn't know they are Swedish.
I'm Dutch, and I was taught British English at school. Recently I was told that I had an American-English accent. So I guess that's the influence of TV/radio. Can't say I'm proud of that influence though. On the ohter hand, ‘British’ is quite diverse as well.
I doubt that very much. I a Hungarian and I can tell you my fellow Hungarian have watched American tv-programmes since the early 1960 and nobody and I mean nobody can speak such flawless English. Not even English with American accent.
