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The song is an anthem of quiet optimism, born from conversations with his girlfriend about abandoning the familiar and pursuing long-held dreams, of a slower life by the sea, of daring to imagine something new; “It’s a song about wanting to change things up. Make your dreams come true. Wanting to move to a place by the water, doing the things we’ve been putting on hold. I feel like I haven’t been allowing myself to dream about the future for a long time, just been stuck in the same old ways. So it’s good to be able to dream again.”
He continues; “I remember being a bit hesitant with this song (‘Ferris Wheel’) at first. But everyone in the studio was so excited about it and then I started to love it. It’s something I feel like I haven’t done before and that’s probably why I was feeling that way.”
After years of engaging translators such as John Grant and working with the poetry of his father, Einar Georg Einarsson, Ásgeir has charted new territory, having penned his lyrics by himself for the first time in his long and celebrated career.
Julia marks a shift toward not just lyrical self-reliance but cathartic directness, songs that feel not just performed, but lived in. “This was kind of the first time I was writing lyrics totally on my own,” he shares. “It was scary. I’m still trying to find myself within that. But I tried to open myself up and I learned a lot through that process, and it was definitely therapeutic for me.”
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