Last year was a big one for the Norwegian pop sensation, and 2018 looks even busier. The only snag? She´s got nothing left to get worked up aboutSigrid, the 21-year-old pop sensation from Norway, looks almost pained when asked to pick her biggest `pinch myself` moment of 2017. In contention, you´d imagine, is her barbed, infectious debut single, Don´t Kill My Vibe, dropping from nowhere and racking up more than 30m plays on Spotify and YouTube combined. She performed at Glastonbury, and a BBC blog speculated that she would return to Worthy Farm one day as a headliner. And talk about range: she also sang at the Nobel peace prize concert, in front of representatives from the 2017 laureate, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, and an 85-year-old survivor of Hiroshima. `So, so much bigger than a career thing,` she says.But the single moment Sigrid picks is her set at the Roskilde festival in Denmark back in June. `We were playing at 1pm, which is not the greatest slot,` she recalls. `And it was the end of the week so I was like, `People are going to be shitfaced, hungover. No one´s going to come.´ I told the band: `We´re just going to do our job, it´s cool to be here, guys, we actually made it to Roskilde.´ Continue reading...
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