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In The RoundThe Cardigans

Released: October 14, 2005

Songwriter: Peter Svensson Nathan Larson Nina Persson

Producer: Tore Johansson

[Verse 1]
I am young and I'm alive
I wanna talk about things
I am young and I own my life
I need to talk about it, baby

I am one but I asked for two
I didn't get anything
This puppet's lonely without you
It's tough to walk without strings

[Chorus]
I do my dance in the round

[Verse 2]
I'm right on track
But this state is frail
You slip out and derail

[Chorus]
I do my dance in the round
So people clap your hands

Clap your hands
I want to do it right this time
I wanna step in time
I want to do it right this time, yeah

Clap your hands
I gotta get get it right this time
I wanna step in time
I want to do it right this time
I do my dance in the round

[Verse 3]
I am young, coming at you live
People gonna talk about me
When I'm done, please hang me high
For everybody to see

[Chorus]
'Cause I do my dance in the round
So people clap your hands

[Outro]
I wanna get it right
I'm dying to get it right
I wanna get it right
I'm dying to get it right

Clap your hands

The Cardigans

One of the most pleasing pop groups of the ‘90s, the Cardigans specialized in sugary confections that would grow annoying very quickly if they weren’t backed by solid musicianship and clever arrangements. The band’s 1995 breakout album, Life, reflected the Cardigans at their most saccharine – the sunny disposition of vocalist Nina Persson being the major argument in favor – and critics inserted the group into the space age pop revivalist camp. the Cardigans later proved that they were more difficult to pigeonhole, however.

Even the band’s origins showed that their later appearance was quite misleading; two heavy metal fanatics formed the group in October 1992 in Jonkoping, Sweden. Guitarist Peter Svensson met bassist Magnus Sveningsson in a hardcore group, though he had previously trained in music theory and jazz arranging. The two later grew tired of metal and decided to form a pop band with vocalist Nina Persson – an art-school friend who had never sung professionally – plus keyboard player Lars-Olof Johansson and drummer Bengt Lagerberg.

All five Cardigans moved into a small apartment in 1993 and began recording a demo tape that entered the hands of producer Tore Johansson later that year. He liked what he heard and invited the group to record at his Malmö studio. Signed to the dance-oriented Stockholm label, the Cardigans released Emmerdale in May 1994. The single “Rise & Shine” became a hit on Swedish radio soon after the release of the LP, and a readers poll in Sweden’s Slitz magazine voted Emmerdale the best album of 1994.

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