For me sex and music are very closely related

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In their heart they are rock’n’rollers. On the outside, they’re gentlemen that know how to achieve success and fascinate crowds. We speak with the singers and guitar players Björn  Dixgard  and  Gustaf  Norén  about  the  new  album  and  “Sex,  Drugs  and Rock’n’Roll”.

Have you ever done this famous hotel room smash?

Björn: We’ve never performed this clichéd action which you mean. Everyone can smash a hotel room or break things, doesn’t matter who you are. That’s why today it’s nothing special for a rock band. Of course, at home something gets smashed sometimes when I’m really pissed off.

So is the album slogan “Sex, Drugs and Rock’n’Roll” just a romantic idea?

Björn: Yes, I think so. It is rather unusual when a rock band says they’re good Christians and lead a boringly normal life, never partying or drinking alcohol. This would actually be much more shocking than smashing a hotel room, having damn lots of sex or take loads of drugs. But look at Jonas Brothers, they’re really sick!

Gustaf: Everyone in the world drinks, fucks and takes drugs.

Björn: In the sixties you were a rebel when you lived according to that credo, but times have changed. Today it’s damn old-fashioned to behave that way.

Gustaf: Just turn on the TV today! You see there more “sex, drugs and rock’n’roll” than you’d really like to. I find this rather irritating. Even the American president lives “sex, drugs and rock’n’roll” in his way. Bill Clinton smokes pot, cheats on his wife and goes to Rolling Stones concerts. You have to be a little bit of a rebel and freak out if you want to make music. This is hard business and so much damn work, it doesn’t work out if you don’t relax. You have to have good vibes to carry away the people away with you.

 

It’s definitely easier to get women when you’re a rockstar, isn’t it?

Gustaf: Well, I was already in a rock band before I started having interest in women, so I really don’t know how it is otherwise.

And what’s your experience with groupies?

Gustaf: I can totally understand them. Everyone is attracted to a certain status, I’m not different, and that’s nothing unusual. But you mustn’t call these people groupies. They aren’t some kind of hookers or something like that. In front of certain people everyone would drop their pants, that’s how sex is. Of course we had such experiences.

 In your opinion, what do these ladies want from you?

Gustaf: They feel sexually attracted to us. Some because of our fame, some because of our music, and others because of adventure or attention that they’d get afterwards. It’s like a drug for them.

Have you had extreme experience with such girls?

Gustaf: I think no. Some have almost stalked us but it wasn’t that after consideration bad. We’re all married and have regular sex, so we’re not sexually frustrated to get fans. But our looks, the attention and all that is also a part of our music. For me sex and music are very closely related.

Björn: That’s a problem which most of the bands face today. No one uses the necessary portion of sex in their music these days. The majority sings about absolutely trivial stuff. In the sixties and seventies the bands allowed themselves more freaky things.