#600 Jenny Hval & Opinions on Harry Styles and Sir the Baptist

Sound Opinions

Society & Culture, Music, Arts

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Norwegian singer-songwriter and performance artist Jenny Hval has released six albums of ethereal and challenging music. On her latest record, she explores the links between vampirism and the female body. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot speak with Jenny Hval about her career and process. Plus, reviews of the new albums from Harry Styles and Sir the Baptist.

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0:00.0	You gotta understand something there. This music is the glue of the world. It holds it all together.
0:06.0	Without this, life would be meaningless. What are you getting so crazy about? It's just music.
0:27.0	Jenny Val has made a great new album of challenging ethereal music, exploring themes of vampirism and the female body.
0:35.2	I'm Jim Deorgatous.
0:36.4	And I'm Greg Kot.
0:37.6	We speak to Norwegian singer-songwriter Jenny Vol.
0:40.6	Plus we review new albums from Harry Styles and Sir the Baptist and look at how
0:44.8	two very different artists sample an obscure 60s gospel recording.
0:48.8	That's all coming up on sound opinions.
0:53.0	This is sound opinions.
0:57.0	This is sound opinions and later in the show we'll be talking with Jenny Val, a Norwegian singer-songwriter who makes incredibly complicated sometimes challenging music from a unique perspective. But first let's weigh in on some new albums.
1:15.0	Just stop you crying, it's a sign of the times.
1:20.0	Welcome to the final show. I hope you're wearing your best clothes. You can't bribe the door on your way to the sky.
1:39.0	You look pretty good down here, but you ain't really good.
1:44.0	We never learn, we been here before.
1:48.0	Why are we always stuck and running wrong? before. the time's the title track from the first solo album by Harry Styles.
2:06.4	Who is Harry Styles Greg?
2:08.4	You could not write a better script for a new millennial pop star than Harry Stiles actual story.
2:16.0	Raised in Cheshire, England, he started out with a band called White Eskimo,
2:21.0	but in 2010 he auditioned as a solo artist for the British
2:25.8	television series The X Factor. That of course is like American Idol, but the Brits got
2:31.5	there first. He didn't win as a solo performer, but he was invited
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