Icona Pop Talk Tove Lo, "Emergency", and Touring with One Direction

Icona Pop Talk Tove Lo, "Emergency", and Touring with One Direction
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The YH Studio welcomes the lovely Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo, better known as Swedish dance-pop duo Icona Pop, to hang out and scoop us on their hit song "Emergency" and going on the road with One Direction on their 'On The Road Again Tour'! They also dish on their school days in their native Sweden with fellow music star Tove Lo, plus they answer Twitter questions from fans and demonstrate for us their pre-show ritual!
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This is before the show. Before we're about to go on. And if we don't do this, it's we're things usually yeah, goes wrong.
I want every detail of what you do with this. One, two, three. Yeah! Yeah! You're performing, the whole place catches on fire. Which one of the One Direction members would you rescue?
The one closest to us, we just run.
Hi, Tony Morris here on the Young Hollywood couch. And it's an emergency! An emergency! 'Cause I'm here with the most beautiful, talented Swedish Swedish rock stars. Icona Pop.
What an introduction. Thank you very much.
Yeah. I had a crush on a Swedish rock star, also, you guys actually uh who went who went to high school with, Tove Lo.
Oh, our our Mama. No, but we actually used to live with her. Yeah. We're like she's one of our best friends. We've known her forever. Forever.
Cool. Like it was like a music high school that you went to?
Music high school, then we ended up in a apartment with a lot of girls, and called Techno Street. And uh it was chaos. A lot of heartbreak stories and a lot of songs were written in that apartment and it's kind of fun when we see each other in different places in the world and we're like, Oh.
Yeah, we never meet in Sweden anymore. No, it's always like out on the road, at a festival or something like that.
And you girls had like a beautiful moment when you met.
We met. Yeah, at Techno Street. Yeah, at Caroline's place. Yeah. We had a lot of mutual friends, uh so I knew who Caroline was, but I never hung with her and stuff like that. So this friend, mutual friend forced me to go to a party 'cause I was heartbroken. And she was like, we have to take care of baby Icona now because she's heartbroken. And I was like, of course, invite her to my party tonight because it's going to be dope. And we met, and it was just love at first sight. And we were out dancing the whole night. And the day after, I mean, we said like, oh, we have to do something together. And that's something that you sometimes say and then it doesn't happen. But we, you called me the day after. You came to my place. Let's start the basics. Since that day we basically been sisters.
Has your heart been broken since?
Oh, yeah. A lot of times. But I think I've broken a lot of hearts as well. Yeah, yeah. But we always have each other.
I put a little twist in my hips. Here we go. Kiss on my lips. Here we go. Eyes on my wrist 'cause I'm hot and I'm dancing. Here we go. Cut that romance. Here we go. Cancel your plans. Here we go. Girls, hide your man 'cause I'm hot and I'm dancing.
Can you tell tell us what Emergency, what what like what's that song about? Like what what are you guys trying to get out there with that song? What's it about?
I mean, that's basically how we feel a lot. We feel like we're pretty good at creating a party wherever we go. It's like wherever we are, together with our friends, we can create, it's just like an emergency dance break, kind of. You have to dance. You have to dance. It's like a very serious emergency and you just have to dance and just feel like, we have to do it now.
Another emergency here with the Emergency Rush. You're on tour with One Direction?
It's been so much fun.
Let's play a game.
Oh, okay. Should I be nervous?
Yeah, this is I would be very nervous of for this game. It has to do with of course, Emergency. Um and it's it's it's basically if you're put into like an emergency situation,
Mhm.
what would you do? That's the situation. Okay, so the situation would be, the emergency is this. You're in a stadium, you're performing, the whole place catches on fire. Which one of the One Direction members would you rescue?
The one closest to us, we just run. I mean, I think you have to do what you have to do, right?
If one of these two stores was having an 80% off everything in the store, 80% off. That's an emergency, right?
Yeah.
And it would be uh H&M or American Apparel?
H&M. H&M.
Why H&M?
I think they have great stuff. Yeah, and we have to. No, but they have great stuff. They have amazing stuff and the and they have a lot of stuff. Yeah.
Last emergency game question here is, in what city would you play your last performance in?
Paris. Paris. Oh, I was going to say Paris.
Everybody in this beach. If you want to get up, get down like this. Let's uh let's go on to the uh Twitter questions here from the fans. Nicole Kucha number nine.
Mhm. Nice name. Nice name.
Beautiful name. Beautiful name. Yeah. What time do you girls go to bed?
Whenever we can. We have this superpower and we created this superpower that we can sleep whenever because we never sleep. So, if it's like, oh, it's 15 minutes break, you see us just like Yeah, it's And then Because sometimes you get off of show super late and you have to fly super early and so you have to be very flexible. It's not like we have our 8 hours of beauty sleep. No. Even if you can think that sometimes. No, just kidding.
Oh, I love this one. Okay, her name is Razer Rapper at Racer Rapper. And she's talking about OTRA, which is the the tour that you girls are on right now. Uh if you had to be honest, you to be honest, which one smells the best? Come on, be honest.
We haven't really smelled the guys. What? No, but I mean, we haven't really digged in under their arms yet.
Do do that, okay? I actually do that. Yeah, do that. But then all the time.
But what do you mean? But we'll do uh check We will do a research and we will get back on that. Yeah. Next time we like, next time we see you. We'll And we will do like a little yeah.
So let's do last question and then we'll we'll finish this off here. Love Icona Pop. That was the name of her Twitter handle, that was the name of her Twitter handle. She says, Caroline, what's the name of the music that you composed with Tove Lo, but no one knows? Question mark. They must mean in school. Okay. See, they they're going way back.
Well, I don't even know what to call that kind of music.
Awesome music.
Recorded?
Um yeah, I think it's on videotape or something.
You're like hiding it or is it out there?
I'm not hiding it, it just it was way back.
You girls have a cool thing you do before your shows, a pre-ritual thing you do with the horns. You seem to know a lot about us. I'm scared. You've been stalking us? Yeah. Okay. The horns. I had to Okay. sorry. Okay, so this is the horns. So what do you do with the horns?
We'll do that on the way out. So, um, you put up your horns. Mhm. This is before the show. Before you're about to go on and if we don't do this, it's we're things usually yeah, goes wrong.
I want to know every detail of what you do with this. So.
Okay, usually we stand up. So I don't know if we should stand up. We can stand up. And someone is in the middle. And then we count to three like, one, two, three. And then you scream like from your toes, like, yeah, yeah.
Oh, wow. I'm in Yeah. This is awesome. This is awesome.
It's a rock stars inside of us. Yeah, okay. Are you ready? Yeah. Ready, here we go. Okay. One, two, three. Yeah!
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Caroline Hjelt
Member of Icona Pop and interviewee
- Aino Jawo
Member of Icona Pop and interviewee
- Tove Lo
Swedish artist who went to school and lived with Icona Pop members
- One Direction
Band Icona Pop toured with on 'On The Road Again Tour'
- Tony Morris
Host of Young Hollywood
- Nicole Kucha
Fan who submitted a Twitter question
- Racer Rapper
Fan who submitted a Twitter question
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