The new HS single is out: Long lost penpal. The single/EP contains four songs, and two videos. However, this is the tracklist that has been showing on most web record shops:

1: Long Lost Penpal Feat. Firefox Ak
2: Get Sick Soon
3 Re: Always On My Mind
4: Valentine’s Day
5: My Best Friend (video)
6: If I Don’t Write This Song, Someone I Love Will Die (video)
7: The Hommos *surprise*

The Hommos? Surprise? About a million people have asked me, excitement in their voices, what *surprise* I might have in store. And what is The Hommos? Have I written a secret celebration song for tasty goo made out of chick peas?

Sadly, my friends, it’s all just a misprint. I think it all hails from me and the band The Hommos once having songs on the same soundtrack.

To set the record straight, then: no *surprise*. Just four songs, and two videos. I hope you’ll like it all the same.

XX writes in the guestbook and wonders why the hell I’ve stolen the melody from Oasis Some might say to use in Long lost penpal. Are you drunk XX, the two songs have no resemblances whatsoever except for them having the same chords in the beginning of the verses. And I’m pretty certain that if you’re looking to accuse everyone who’s used C, Am, F and G in that order for theft, you might have some work cut out for you. (I’m also quite sure Oasis might not have been the original creators of these chords)

However, the question XX’s raising is interesting. It’s quite the hassle knowing you’re making up a melody yourself and not stealing someone else’s. For long, I’ve wished for Google and Allmusic to come together and form a new search engine: the Hum. You hum a melody, and the computer quickly translates your melody to notes, comparing the notes to every song ever written. I would use it every day. For now, whenever I’ve written a song, I can only check it the old-fashioned way: I try to hum it to ten or more of my music-obsessed friends and ask them if they’ve heard it before.
Pretty often, the result is highly disturbing.

Songs I’ve believed I’ve written myself:
* Downtown (Petula Clark)
* Fever (everyone)
* Crying in the rain (Everly Brothers)
* All the things she said (TATU)

PS. Sometimes the humming-to-friends-system fails terribly. If you listen closely to the beginning of Nothing like you (when you’re gone), you’ll hear it sounds almost excactly like Niklas Strömstedts Förlorad igen! This was discovered a couple of months after Introducing… was released. I’m sorry Niklas, I never meant to steal your sunshine.

QX magazine has named me the 4th sexiest female in Sweden. I could not be any happier. (Well, maybe if I’d been at the no 1, 2, or 3 spot). So far, 8 people have called me up to laugh at the hilariousness of this.

PS. Speaking of sexy: I watched Pride & Prejudice tonight and came to think about this scene in the TV version.

A whole bunch of new shows!

February 3: Oslo – Redyellowcab (only HS + Maia Hirasawa)
February 24: Östersund – News Bar & Kök (only HS + Maia Hirasawa)
March 2: Göteborg – Nefetiti
March 3: Malmö – KB
March 4: Uppsala – V-Dala Nation
March 7: Stockholm – Kafe 44
March 9: Stockholm – Södra Teatern
March 10: Norrköping – Kulturkammaren
March 11: Lund – Mejeriet
March 23: Växjö – Palladium
March 25: Umeå – Umeå Open
March 30: Hultsfred – Metropol
April 14: Borlänge – Klubb Liro, S2
April 15: Örebro – Klubb Smart

Martin told me about a What Twin Peaks character are you? – quiz. It seemed necessary for me to go through with it. I was, however, afraid to do the test. The last time I took one, I became Dawson. The most boring person on tv, ever.

However – my personality seems to have improved! Hooray! I’m also quite impressed with how they pinpointed my flair for coffee.

You’re Special Agent Dale Cooper. You’re often too
brilliant for people to really follow, but your
infectious enthusiasm makes up for the fact
that you’re frequently incomprehensible. You
are smart, intuitive, clear-headed,
compassionate, and cute as hell — about your
only flaw is your insane coffee consumption.

Which Twin Peaks character are you?
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