Karen Marie Ørsted is a Danish singer and songwriter, who records under the name of Mø. Her stage moniker means "maiden" in Danish, and the English translation doubles up as the title of her debut single.
So how do you pronounce her name? Ø is a Danish vowel that's unpronouncable in English, but is close to the "eu" in the French word bleu. MØ is sympathetic to the English-speakers' struggles with her moniker. "People can say 'moe,' 'mew,' or 'moo,'" she said. "It's all good!"
The song gained Mø attention from blogs. She told NME: "It's about being yourself even though you're not perfect. I was so happy that I was being honest with myself and people seemed to like it."
This song is an ode to nostalgia and longing for the ease of youth. Mø told The Guardian: "I think everyone grew up thinking that by their mid-20s they'd have everything sorted out, but I know I don't. There is this unidentifiable problem of wanting more from life and never being satisfied. The days are slipping away and you're one step closer to death. Life was so easy as a child, maybe you fall over and you cry but you get back up again."
This is a track from Danish singer-songwriter Mø's No Mythologies to Follow album. She told NME that the record is about "being a young, restless and lost in their modern world." Mø added that songs such as "Walk This Way" reject "the media glorifying eternal youth, fame and money."
Mø's music is made together with producer Ronni Vindahl. This song was drafted backstage in Birmingham when the Danish singer was on tour with AlunaGeorge. "I was singing the hook, he quickly wrote the track and that was it," she told NME. "The album wasn't really made in one place. Tracks were written in Norway, Los Angeles, the UK, Denmark. Anywhere really."
