Det är så jag säger det, released on 28 October 2002, is the Swedish

Sweden

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 pop artist

Pop music

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 Håkan Hellström

Håkan Hellström

Håkan Hellström is a Swedish musician. He got his Swedish breakthrough in the year 2000 with the song "Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg"...

's second album. In English

English language

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, the title would be: "That is how I say it."

Musically the album was an evolvement from Hellström's debut and a deepening of his widespread influences containing among others Brazilian samba

Samba

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 music and Swedish folk ballad singers Evert Taube

Evert Taube

Evert Axel Taube was a Swedish author, artist, composer and singer. He is best known for his folk songs, and is widely regarded as one of Sweden's most respected musicians.-Biography:...

 and Cornelis Vreeswijk

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. The music is also reminiscent of genuinly British soul artists such as Dexys Midnight Runners

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 (more or less explicitly references in "Kom igen Lena!" (Come On Lena!

Come on Eileen

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)) and The Redskins

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. The track Minnen Av Aprilhimlen incorporates the chorale melody of the Bach cantata

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 Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147.

Lyrically Hellström once again draws inspiration from Bob Dylan

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, Paul Weller

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 and other acknowledged lyricists. Minnen Av Aprilhimlen (Memories of the April Sky) is possibly a vague reference to Hellström's great favourites Jesus and Mary Chain's April Skies and also contains a direct quote from Pavement

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 song Gold Soundz.
On the title track, Hellström sings "Vänder om / hon bara ler / allén är inte så dålig ändå" ("Turning around / she just smiles / the alley isn't all that bad after all"), possibly a tribute to the song Tiny Dancer by Elton John: "turning back / she just laughs / the boulevard is not that bad".

Hellström's style of borrowing is also apparent in the cover design, which bears a slight stylistic resemblance to Bob Dylan's 1964 album The Times They Are a-Changin'

The Times They Are a-Changin'

The Times They Are a-Changin opens with the title track, one of Dylan's most famous songs. Dylan's friend, Tony Glover, recalls visiting Dylan's apartment in September 1963, where he saw a number of song manuscripts and poems lying on a table. "The Times They Are a-Changin'" had yet to be recorded,...

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Track listing

1. "Mitt Gullbergs Kaj Paradis" My Gullberg's quay Paradise
2. "Förhoppningar Och Regnbågar" Hopes and Rainbows
3. "Den Fulaste Flickan I Världen" The Ugliest Girl in the World
4. "Kom Igen Lena!" Come on Lena!
5. "Här Kommer Lyckan För Hundar Som Oss" Here Comes Happiness For Dogs Like Us
6. "Rockenroll, Blåa Ögon - Igen" Rock & Roll, Blue Eyes - Again
7. "Gråsparven När Hon Sjunger" The House Sparrow As She Sings
8. "Minnen Av Aprilhimlen" Memories of the April Sky
9. "Mississippi Kan Vänta" Mississippi Can Wait
10. "Det Är Så Jag Säger Det" That Is How I Say It