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”I believe silence helps me watch my TV show
You go out thinking you can change the world
I stay at home with myself watch Gilmore Girls
You use words, I don’t know what they are
to my ears it’s all just blah blah blah”
Så sjunger Quinn Liu i den kinesiska och danska duon Green Tea Bitches som hon har tillsammans med Emil Pedersen. Texten kommer från den ännu osläppta I want to live inside of your head. En fantastisk låt som får mitt humör att stiga oavsett vad som hänt. Oavsett. Bandet släppte debutsingeln Bad taste i januari och för mig är bandets kombination av glädje, lekfullhet och uppriktighet en injektion av värme och just glädje - rätt in i själen. Den senaste tiden har de turnerat i Kina och jag tror mig veta att de har spridit både glädje och värme till de som har fått chansen att se dem. Det är punkig energi, fantastiska texter och som en hyllning till allt som sticker ut. Och en hyllning till dålig smak. Jag gillar att bandet vill vara mycket och hela tiden är det med glimten i ögat och som de själva uttrycker det ”Less is a bore. Mess is more!”. Jag älskar det. Idag gästar duon bloggen för ett musikminne!
I remember one specific night at Roskilde Festival. It was one of those late hours where you’re too tired to be fully awake but too wired to go back to your tent. I was wandering around without a plan, drifting between stages, stepping into random shows by artists I didn’t know. The kind of festival wandering where you’re not searching for anything specific, just hoping to stumble into something.
At some point I walked into a tent that seemed completely out of control. There were dancing animals on stage. Not metaphorically. Actual costumed creatures moving in a way that felt half choreographed, half completely chaotic. The tent was packed. Too many people. Too much energy. It felt like it was seconds away from collapsing into total madness.
But it worked.
The music was this explosive form of dance punk I had never heard before. Raw, distorted, euphoric. Everything felt slightly wrong and completely right at the same time. The crowd wasn’t just watching. They were inside it. Sweating, shouting, moving like one organism. It was chaotic in the best possible way. No boundaries, no distance between performer and audience, just pure shared energy.
It was Bonaparte.
That night changed something for me. I didn’t just discover a new artist. I discovered a new idea of what a concert could be. Since then, I’ve been deeply in love with his music, but also with the philosophy behind it. The idea that you don’t just play songs. You build a world. You create the party that everyone secretly wants to be part of. You make the stage feel like the most alive place on earth.
Whenever I think about why I care so much about live music, I go back to that tent at Roskilde. The dancing animals. The chaos. The feeling that anything could happen.
That was the night music stopped being something I listened to and became something I wanted to create: Green Tea Bitches, the cool Chinese Danish dance punk duo that brings energetic punk energy to a colorful dance party!
/ Green Tea Bitches
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