They talked about their lives while they picked away at a melody. Then one Sunday afternoon that May of 2010, after a hard night of drinking, they ended up in the studio. “That was like my brother.”įrom Swedish House Mafia to Skrillex, These Are 10 Ways the Year 2010 Predicted EDM “And we just like, we fell in love,” Zitron says about the friendship that formed. One Friday afternoon, they went to a liquor store together, bought some beers and listened to music in Zitron’s studio.

They found their musical styles at the time – Zitron was writing pop songs and Martin was into indie rock - complemented each other. More than a decade later, they were introduced by mutual acquaintances in the Stockholm music scene. (Zitron recalls Martin, with his trademark flowing locks, “looked like Jesus.”) Martin was in a rock group and Zitron had been in a boy band. Martin and Zitron went to high school together in Stockholm but didn’t know each other, even though they were both performing music by then. This is a song where you can cry on the dance floor.”Īs the two artists tell it, “Don’t You Worry Child” came from a pure place. “And that’s what actually made the EDM scene.

“We love sad songs with big choruses, and storytelling,” says Zitron. While the Swedish House Mafia members tell Billboard that their new music is an intentional departure from the anthemic big room sound that “Don’t You Worry Child” helped define, Zitron and Martin proudly recall the song as an example of the best that the EDM boom had to offer. Swedish House Mafia Returns: In Stockholm With the Dance Music Legends

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