The latest single from Malin Pettersen’s new album ‘Wildflower’ is a new recording of a song that Pettersen first released on her 2024 EP ‘Seasons.’ Back then it was a solo take with just guitar accompaniment, but here it’s been given the full jangly guitar band treatment – the story remains the same though, heartache that has resolved itself, and now that apartment – and its occupant – that once was so important is just a house number and a street name. We don’t even care if he still lives there. No. Not at all.
Malin Pettersen says of the song: “I’ve always been fascinated by the way some of the songs I remember from being a kid in the 90s describe the everyday lives of people and their stories. It’s almost like the song itself keeps the key of the plot hidden and just show you a peek of a situation that’s a part of the bigger story. I remember songs like “Luka”, “Torn”, “If It Makes You Happy”, as well as almost any Lucinda song, always had me thinking way beyond the end of the song. I found myself inspired by this way of writing, and with an idea I had sat with for a long time – about the strange concept of someone who was once your closest turning into a stranger – the song almost wrote itself. It’s really just a few minutes of someone’s day we enter into, a moment, and all the thoughts and memories that have time to fly through the persons head in that short moment. The quite frank soundscape of the guitar based pop in the 90s also found it’s way very natually to this song when we went in to do this band version of it. This is the way I pictured it sounding when I wrote it, and I am so happy we were able to do it for this album.”
