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Originally posted by DuffStan
How did they meet?
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As I understand it, she'd just gotten signed to Warner/Chappell as a songwriter (she was 23) when she went to a party for Alex Kronlund (I think it might have been his birthday party) with The Struts. She got really drunk, got up on stage and sang. Something like the day after, she got a call from Alex, they talked and hit it off. He wanted to work with her on something and he was going to LA and asked if she wanted to come. She was like "yeah, but am I even allowed?" He's like "don't worry about it, I'll take care of it." Warner/Chappell allows her to go even though she's a newbie and apparently they don't really do things like that.
She gets to LA where she was supposed to be picked up by Alex. He's not there, she calls and gets no answer, but she finally sees a guy holding an iPad with her name on it. He's got a car for her, she gets in, but is like "I don't have an address, I don't know anything." She was originally going to stay with a friend of hers, but when that fell through she was supposed to stay at a friend of Alex's. The driver tells her "yeah, I was told I'm taking you to Max Martin's house." Turns out the plans to stay at that friend of Alex's fell through too and Alex was like "you can stay at Max's, it'll be fine." Basically the 1st time she meets Max is when she at his front door and he lets her stay at his house. How insane is that?
There's more, but the reason I have a tremendous amount of respect for her is most people would have told everyone and anyone this story. She told it in a little podcast interview done in Swedish. They would have name dropped Max and used him in any way to get ahead and she hasn't. What you get from the whole story is that she took the time she stayed at his house to learn what she could from him and she appreciated it and then made her own way.