Inside, Karen Marie Aagaard Ørsted Andersen takes us through the crazy, post-‘Lean On’ world of MØ as she gears up for her sure-to-be-bloody-massive second album. Oh, and we also chat to both MØ and Diplo about DIY’s hand in the creation of ‘Lean On’. It wouldn’t have happened without us. Possibly.
“Maybe three years ago, or even more, DIY interviewed me and asked me about my dream collaboration, and I said Major Lazer,” she remembers, revisiting just how recent stratospheric events first began to unwind. “Someone on Twitter tweeted Diplo, and said ‘please make this happen, you should work with her’. He replied ‘we love her’,” she beams. “So then me and my manager were like, we need to ****ing hunt him down and get a session set up.” Hunt him down, she did: cornering the producer in Amsterdam for a day of studio time. The outcome was ‘XXX 88’. “That was the beginning of our collaborations. So thanks, man!”