Video: Lykke Li: "I'm Good, I'm Gone"
Lykke Li's "I'm Good, I'm Gone" has a chorus so good, it's going up on Forkcast a second time. When we previously posted a video of the song-- from the Swedish pop singer's debut LP, Youth Novels-- it was a live acoustic version with Robyn and members of Shout Out Louds, the Concretes, and Laakso. The clip for the studio recording shows a couple of eerie children, a bunch of grown-ups in office-job clothes, and, um, marble-fleshed body-builder types in silver one-pieces, all dancing oddly in the halls of what appears to be a school. Li herself flashes some moves and throws some air-punches, her facial expression as severe as the part in her combed-back hair. Stop-motion floor spinning ensues. Produced, like all of Youth Novels, by Peter Bjorn and John's Björn Yttling, and with percussion from both Laakso's Lars Skoglund and PB&J's John Eriksson, the song is a furiously catchy highlight from the album, with an insistent piano riff and nicely placed handclaps. "When I'm gone, you'll be calling/ But I won't be at the phone," Li warns. Not sure exactly what's going on, but suddenly I don't want to piss this woman off.
[original track from Youth Novels; out now on LL Recordings]