Oh Land's Wishbone is for the weirdos.
For those expecting another ethereal, spritely pop song like "White Nights," which made the TV rounds on "Girls" and "Teen Wolf" when it came out, fans were taken by surprise when the new album gave them "My Boxer" — Oh Land's version of rap, supported by sparse, distorted, electronic beats. The song pounds and stomps as she yells through a megaphone and asks, "Does baby like weird?"
The video, shot on an iPad, follows the singer around on her bike, her dog sitting in its basket. Her cap, tied-back blue hair, crop top and printed pants are far detached from the felt hats, wispy blond hair and woolen capes that first entered her into the fashion world as a style icon.
Her signature dreamy ballads still exist in her new collection of music, and hints mystical pop about rainbows and narwhals still peep though. But Wishbone, which dropped Tuesday, is aggressive, demanding and doesn't make up any stories.
"It's both very dreamy but also very grounded," the singer born Nanna Oland Fabricius told MTV News, breaking down the title Wishbone. "I would describe my album as the conflict between the brain and the body. Wish is all your thoughts and your dreams, and bones, being like your very physical world."
Nanna sings about her physical limitations in "Bird in an Aeroplane," a song she told her audience at NYC's Gramercy Theater on Tuesday night was inspired by birds that cause trouble on airport runways. "Iron steel and smoke," she sings about the plane, which sucks ...
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