Music Monday is a meme that was created by Drew from The Tattooed Book Geek. Bjørn and I will pick a song alternatively on each Monday and share our thoughts about them. Bjørn’s pick this week is Christiansands by Tricky.

The album this song comes from, Pre-Millennium Tension, was such a fun record to play that a fellow student at the university asked me whether I was really listening to that (thinking I had a pair of extra ears somewhere listening to something else, I guess?) ‘Christiansands’ is the lead single, the most, uh, radio-friendly song on the record and indeed, with the chorus being ‘I met a Christian in Christiansands and the devil in Helsinki’ it’s an earworm for the ages. As Pitchfork (back in their ‘LSD is cool’ days, admittedly) phrased it, “his conceit is sickening and I’ll be goddamned if it’s not the most distracting thing in the world.” Totally.

My defenses become fences
Now I’m stumbling, I change my face up
And if you think I’m fake up
Wait around ’til I take off my make-up
Here we go again
I need another one
Her name is
She looks at me
Says I’m the only one
I met a, a Christian in Christiansands
And a Devil in Helsinki
I met a Christian in Christiansands
A devil in Helsinki
Is it getting better?
Wrote her a letter, asking questions
Baby steps in sections
I mean, we’ll take it slow
I really don’t know
When you talk, you make me cringe
Silver me to the messenger
Let her go, don’t question her
I met a, a Christian in Christiansands
A Devil in Helsinki
I met a, Christian in Christiansands (You and me)
What does that mean? (A devil in Helsinki)
Always, what does that mean?
Forever, what does that mean?
It means we’ll manage, I’ll master your language
And in the meantime, I’ll create my own, by my own
It means we’ll manage, I’ll master your language
And in the meantime, I’ll create my own
You and me, what does that mean?
Always, what does that mean?
Forever, what does that mean?
Always, what does that mean?
Forever, what does that mean?
It means we’ll manage, master your language
And in the meantime I’ll create my own
It means we’ll manage, master your language
And in the meantime I’ll create my own
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