"I like covers that have a new take on the original, so I really enjoyed your lounge-style version of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. What made you choose that band [Black Sabbath] and song in particular? NotDrivingAMiniMetro We were big fans for a heavy band there's a real pop sentiment in the songwriting and I think it's interesting when a cover is a stretch away from your natural sound."
"In Sweden, artistic expression was encouraged and we were helped to be creative. When you were eight or nine you were given a free recorder and then other instruments on free loans, so a poor child could play the violin without breaking the bank. Also, like in all countries, the traditional music has a sadness, a harmonic beauty with melancholia."
The band name Emmerdale comes from a British TV series titled Home to the Farm and evokes a rainy, hazy, woolly romantic image like a cardigan. The band reinterprets songs by transforming heavy material into pop-inflected, creepily feminized versions, as with a lounge-style cover of Black Sabbath's 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.' Black Sabbath's songwriting contains pop sentiment beneath heaviness, and Ozzy Osbourne described that cover as 'the creepiest thing he'd ever heard.' Sweden's 1990s musical output drew on climate, sparse population, ABBA's contrast of surface cheer and underlying darkness, widespread arts education with free instruments for children, and traditional music's melancholic harmonic beauty.
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