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A Swedish review just dropped in... And luckily, I like it! :-D "Soft pop with a bittersweet tone to it", is the reviewers opinion. Couldn´t have said it better myself; spot on! Thank you Ellen at Ergo!

Remember the interview I did two weeks ago? Well, now it´s out - and to my delight it got published in all of the inner city Stockholm papers, not only locally here on Södermalm, yaaay! So - let´s hope the 200 000 people it goes out to reads it before placing it in the paper recycling bin... ;-) Oh - and the photographer gets to keep his life. :-D


I made the cover, tjohoo! And no, I haven´t cut my hair and developed a twin, I´m the one to the far right.


The article´s about Swedish female artists that have careers outside of Sweden. It includes me, a successful dj and a Chinese superstar (200 million albums sold!!!) who lives a quiet life in Stockholm when she´s not in China being worshipped.


Download the paper as a pdf file here.

This is how happy I get when I receive news like this: the biggest radio station in Denmark just added "Tired" to their playlist, yaaaay! (...by the way, I´m amazed to see myself endlessly jumping like that. My exercise regime usually consists of crossing the street to buy heaps of salty liquorice at my favourite candy shop.)

Today I had the honor of having the newspaper Södermalmsnytt on a visit. They asked the questions, and I made the espressos. (And answered above mentioned questions as best I could.)



If you´re having trouble getting your point across, try waving your hands in the air really really fast. If nothing else, it might confuse the listener enough to make them forget your messy train of thought.



Does this picture say "Wow, this interview went so well we´re gonna sell a gazillion copies!" (hmm, this is a free magazine, but never mind - you get the point), or "Wow, this interview went so bad it´s going to have to be all pics and no quotes!"...? Well, you´ll just have to guess, and see for yourself when the magazine comes out on the 20th of February... ;-)



This guy also got the espresso-treatment at my place today. He took the pics for the interview, and I told him that I will have to kill him in a very slow and unpleasant way if they don´t come out cute. Let´s all pray for his survival.

I´m featured in the latest issue of Swedish Women´s fashion magazine Damernas Värld! (And the girl who puts together the music section in the magazine also works for Swedish radio and is one of the people we mail-harrassed, so maybe that means we are forgiven. ;-D)




They mention me in their music section, and I´m in good company; the band mentioned above (in the pink blur, my webcam could use an upgrade...) is amazingly talented Swedish band Shout Out Louds who are actually friends of mine. 




For all you non-Swedes: "Swedish Vanja Wikström is a talented singer and musician who went to a small village in French Provence to concentrate on songwriting. After a live performance there she managed to make contacts that eventually lead to a record deal with French Naïve. With a love for contagious hit melodies she fills her album with soft ballads and a traditional pop and rock which has been very successful in France."

My Finnish is limited to phrases like "Ei saa peittää" ("Should not be covered" - classic phrase on electric heaters in Scandinavia...) and "Moi mukulat". (I have to admit I also master the expression "Perkele!" though...) But I also know "Minä rakastan sinua!", which is exactly how I feel for Finnish radio YLE today... Kiitos!

A few weeks ago I asked my friends and fans to e-mail Swedish radio to request "Tired". The idea was obviously to make the radio people aware of Me And My Amazing Song. Well, they just contacted my record label, asking for everyone to PLEASE STOP E-MAIL HARRASSING THEM with requests about this Vanja girl. The good news are: my friends and fans are super loyal and support me through thick and thin, yaaaay! The bad news: we e-mail harrassed Swedish radio. Ooooops! But I can´t help thinking it´s kinda funny... *hihihihi*

Thank you Tessibell for featuring "Tired" in your blog! Mwaah from Sweden!