Lykke Li Performs ‘Possibility’ For the First Time "Unplugged"

Entertainment Weekly has a great exclusive today for you Twilight Saga soundtrack lovers! They’ve gotten their hands on a video clip of Lykke Li performing her The Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack contribution, “Possibility” on MTV’s Unplugged. This is the first time the talented songstress has played the song unplugged, and she hits it out of the park! See for yourself below:

Watch the video HERE.

You can watch Lykke’s entire ‘Unplugged’ show on April 7 at 9 p.m. ET on MTV.

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Lykke Li is Grateful to be Part of ‘Twilight’

Lykke Li says she didn’t necessarily understand the Twilight phenomenon, but she was grateful for the opportunity to influence young listeners watching the films.
“[Twilight has] die-hard fans — all these young people still believing in love and being romantic. I really identify with that. I remember watching films in my teenage years, and you’d be in love with Leonardo DiCaprio and then a song would come on. You’d love that song forever; it changed your life.”
Asked what Wounded Rhymes will mean to her when she listens back to it, the self-described old soul thinks it will serve as a reminder of her growing pains.
“I’m going to be like Benjamin Button; I’m just going to grow younger. I will probably be happy, fat, with kids and looking back and thinking, I was such a angry young woman. It’s the dark years before I kind of understood that life is hard, but it’s always beautiful.”

You can read the full interview at NPR.


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Lykke Li Talks About Appearing on the ‘New Moon’ Soundtrack

Lykke Li: 'I'm intense, and I get psychopathic, too'

Sweden's Lykke Li appears on the Twilight soundtrack, sang with Kanye West and is the toast of the music blogs. So why the long face, asks Rebecca Nicholson

A few nights before our interview, I watch the Swedish singer Lykke Listomp and strut across a London stage theatrically hung with sweeping black drapes. When we meet in person, she's quietly squashed into a remote corner of a hotel bar, looking tired, small and a little suspicious, and dramatically different to that strident pop star. Introductions are made, but there's no small talk, just a deeply set frown above huge eyes, and an insular, brittle poise. It's not uncommon for musicians to take themselves seriously, but even by "artist" standards, she is particularly intense. "I'm intense, but at the same time, to be that intense I get also psychopathic, too," she nods warily, by way of explanation.

Those psychopathic tendencies made up the bulk of her first album,Youth Novels, which arrived in a storm of hype in 2007. It seemed to be about first love, and collected its teenage longings into gentle, danceable and occasionally twee pop. Bloggers went crazy for it, but its critical success failed to bring the kind of satisfaction she expected. "It was a surprise, actually, to find out that after touring for so long I was really unhappy," she says. "I feel like, to be at some kind of inner peace, is much more complex than getting blogged about."

Getting blogged about made hers a peculiar kind of victory. Youth Novels didn't sell particularly well, instead making her an unusual go-to girl for internet-endorsed cool. In the three years since its release, she has popped up on a track with Kanye West (the song Gifted by rappers NASA), has been covered by hip-hop's golden boy Drake, and found herself penning the pivotal ballad in Twilight: New Moon, matching Kristen Stewart's heartbreak with the sweet, slow Possibility.

"I was sitting in a car in England [when I got the call]," she remembers, "eating a sandwich from Tesco, and I had no idea what Twilight was. Somebody explained it as this thing about vampires and I'm like, 'I hate vampires.' But when I thought about it, there are so few pop culture things today, where people are really crazy about something, like Beatlemania, so I thought, how cool to be part of something that so many young, open hearts listen to." Though she might not have been the obvious choice, Li knows why they approached her. "'Cos I represent lonely hearts, you know. Kind of emo I guess." She lets out a rare giggle. "I'm definitely emo, yes."

Her "lonely hearts" calling card has been amplified for her second album Wounded Rhymes, due out early next year. She holed up in hipster haven Echo Park in LA for six months to record it, visiting the desert, rewatching Jodorowsky's ultra-psychedelic film The Holy Mountain and listening to Alan Lomax field recordings, eventually coming up with songs she calls "hypnotic, psychotic and more primal". Comparing it to Youth Novels, she emphatically refers to it as more.

"I felt like my heart was broken on the first record, then life happens, and badabing badaboom, I'm heartbroken again, and I don't deserve this at all, oh my God," she says, referring to the break-up of another relationship. The album's first single, Get Some, centres around the line, "I'm your prostitute, you're gon' get some."

"A lot of people think it's about sex," she says. "But it's about power. I was reading the Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, where she goes into this guy's mind by making him fantasise about her, so it's kind of like powerplay. As soon as a woman does anything, they seem to hit a nerve and it's back to sex. At least men seem to think that."

Has she experienced that, as a female performer? "Yeah, and it's quite terrible, I think. You get judged on things you don't give a fuck about." Like what? "On the first record people were talking about my girlish voice, and I'm like, what? This is the voice I have. I just feel like it's unfair sometimes to be a woman. People never listen to what you say." Who doesn't listen to you? "Well," she pauses. "I will get listened to. But it's boring being compared to other female artists who you have nothing in common with. "

It seems odd that Li has chosen a life that revolves around touring and travelling, meeting people and shaking hands, when she'd be happier on her hilltop in Echo Park. "I chose to be an artist. I did not choose to be on flights all the time," she grumbles, but "there's no way to get your message out there if you're not willing to hop on the bus". And one day, she says, she wants to be like her film-maker heroes – Godard, Antonioni, Almodóvar – adding with a final, emo flourish: "[I want] to express despair and longing through pictures and to intensify life. It's the same thing as with music: to make things more grand than they are."

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Lykke Li's 'New Moon' discussion..

So the always stellar MTV did a pretty quick interview with Lykke Li, discussing her song, 'Possibility' which is on the highly anticipated New Moon soundtrack Keep on reading for the interview, and short video!

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Rachel.

When Lykke Li was presented with the opportunity to write a song for the "New Moon" soundtrack, she did what any bubbling-beneath-the-surface artist would've done: She thought about it for a really long time.
"Everyone kept asking me if I wanted to do it, how [the song] was going, when would I have it finished, and I was like, 'Eh, I don't know, maybe I'll do it, maybe I won't,' " she laughed. "I mean, I had heard of the 'Twilight' phenomenon, but I didn't read the books or watch the first movie or anything. I mean, I'm Swedish."
She's not trying to sound glib. That's just how the 23-year-old Li works. She found fame and acclaim (more so back home than abroad, but who's counting?) with her 2008 album Youth Novels, a simmering, sexy disc that built indelibly unique pop music out of sources both organic (handclaps, foot stomps, etc) and mechanical (808s, theremins, etc.). She has since toured the world and spent much of her time trying to figure out what to do next. Writing a song for a very major Hollywood picture just didn't seem to be in the cards.
Until she saw "New Moon," that is. Then, suddenly, she was hooked.
"I stayed [in Los Angeles] and watched the movie, when it only had green screen on it. I had this hook in my mind, even before I saw the movie, and then I was watching it, and I was like, 'That's the hook!' " she said. "So it was very much like a discovery, inside myself and musically. I had this song growing inside of me that I had to get out, and [the film] was the trigger. Because I really connected with Bella and Edward's tortured love story."
So Li sat down at her piano and wrote "Possibility," a very maudlin song about love and pain and, ultimately, death. Lots of death. Like we said, she doesn't operate like most of her pop contemporaries.

"I get very visual when I make the songs. It's really quite serious. It's almost like a fever haze. It's very repetitive, like a mood you go into. But it's really serious, because, if you're really, really in love, and somebody leaves you, that's a very serious thing," Li explained. "And so the lyrics are like, 'When you walk, you walk like a thief with blood on your hands, because I die when you leave me.' It's in this limbo that, when the song is done, you don't know if I've survived or not. It's very much like a fever, like, 'Oh, my God, it's hot, she's going to die, maybe she did die?' It lingers on, into the next life. It's dark."

It's a complex, moody song on an album positively teeming with them, mostly written by lesser-known, decidedly indie acts. Which, again, was part of the reason Li signed up. She doesn't see this as a simple soundtrack; to her, it's part of a much larger mission.

"We've been feeding people such sh--. Why can't we feed them good things? I really thought about that too," she smiled. "Because I know Robert Pattinson is this big teen idol, but I remember watching 'Romeo + Juliet' with Leonardo DiCaprio, and I was, like, in love. I cried, like, five times. And the soundtrack to that movie is so good, you know? Really well-chosen songs. Not commercial. I think it's great, and hopefully we can do that again."

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