Anna Ternheim is a Swedish singer-songwriter. She was born May 31, 1978, in Stockholm, Sweden. She began playing guitar at the age of 10. During a year abroad in Atlanta, Georgia, Anna created her first band "Sova", playing at smaller festivals and local clubs. Back in Stockholm she continued her songwriting and later in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she was performing while studying French.
She released her debut album Somebody Outside in 2004, the Swedish Grammy jury awarded her the Best Newcomer of the Year award.
For her second album, Separation Road released on September 27, 2006, she was awarded Best Female Artist and Best Lyricist by the Swedish Grammy jury.
Her debut US album, Halfway to Fivepoints, was released on April 22, 2008. Ternheim moved to Manhattan that same year. She released her fourth album, Leaving on a Mayday on August 11, 2008.
Her fifth studio album, The Night Visitor, was released in the U.S. and internationally in autumn of 2011.
Reference List
from this album in RP library
albums by Anna Ternheim
Oh and Happy New Year everyone!
Couldn't agree with you more, fellow Torontonian!
And, yes, may this please be a good year for all!
+1 here. I LOVE female vocals, but this one sounds like those overthinking ladies that always seem to be in trouble.
What century are you communicating from?
Bra! Long may RP's infatuation with Scandinavian music and artists continue. Vive les Vikings!
Also a large number of excellent Scandinavian female artists, such as Agnes Obel, Eivør, Karin Dreijer, Ebba Forsberg etc. who I likely would not have run into otherwise.
Oh and Happy New Year everyone!
Couldn't agree with you more, fellow Torontonian!
And, yes, may this please be a good year for all!
8 years later... still fukingroovin'!
Indeed!
"I'm damned to feel the way I do" -When she sings this line, the mysterious contrast between devotional lyrics and melancholy music is clearly resolved for me. She knows that this kind of "love" cannot survive for very long; it is like a lovely castle in the distance that turns out to be a ruin when one comes closer. Romantic love is like a great movie, projected onto the blank screen of all that two people do NOT know about one another.
Unlike Ms. Ternheim, I choose to believe that kindness can allow two people to forgive one another and themselves each disappointment as it arises; and that true intimacy can be the final and greatest possible outcome.* (I believe that such kindness is an expression of self-love, and is the work of a lifetime).
Anna knows she is in the grip of a compelling fantasy; but the only outcome she believes possible is painful, perhaps even devastating failure.
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(jeez, I do go on, sometimes
*I haven't yet proven this theory.
Way too much "What Have I Done".
Sick of hearing that opening riff.
And "youuu are my everything".
Way too much Anna Ternheim
Way too much "What Have I Done".
You clearly don't feel the way I do
+1 here. I LOVE female vocals, but this one sounds like those overthinking ladies that always seem to be in trouble.
Good god, ladies that think and get in trouble because of it....now that never happens. Really?
I saw Anna Ternheim live in 2009 at the Haldern Pop Festival in Germany. She played this and other songs from this album. She had a musician in the band who played the violin on a wood saw. That was incredible. A performance that I have carried in my heart for years.
Way too much "What Have I Done".
Sick of hearing that opening riff.
And "youuu are my everything".
Way too much Anna Ternheim
Way too much "What Have I Done".
You clearly don't feel the way I do
Oddly enough after 11 years I've come to appreciate this song, and the live version is even better.
NCEyeballKid wrote:
BTW, say hi to Carrboro for me. Greetings from Belgium!
Proclivities wrote:
I guess we all hear something different. I hear two very different chord progressions and two entirely different melodies.
This should be followed by 'Gloomy Sunday' by Cathy Davey.
Bill did play Bjork's version in days of yore.