And I love her. Though Whale vocalist Cia Berg was already thirty when the video was shot, she sported fake braces, lasciviously licked her lollipop, and showed off her granny panties. Babydoll dress and stunning good looks aside, her voice was sultry, her lyrics evocative, her vibe geek chic bizarre.
Whale went about their career completely ass backward. The two met while making a commercial together and decided to Blandade frågor a song as a lark. Schyffert invited his then-girlfriend Cia Berg to sing and front the trio.
Berg now Soro was also a Swedish television personality, having been a video presenter on Bagen The Bag and a program manager. A vivid, colorful, kinetic video directed by auteur Mark Pellington followed. With a minor hit on their hands, Berg, Schyffer and Cyrus wasted little time putting together an album.
East West accidentally let their option drop, poising the band to negotiate a better deal with Virgin. The stopgap E. The band was now free to simultaneously reimagine itself as trip-hop dabblers, dumbed down rawkers, and the Saint Etienne of smut.
Meanwhile, Tricky was exiting Massive Attack and happy to collaborate. Though it did little good in the long run he was brought on board to produce two songs for We Careincluding the lead track. Smutty lyrics abound in the following long jam.
In retrospect, the CD era gave artists license to put out albums that broke the one-hour barrier. Whale did later address this by crafting a much smarter sophomore album. Unfortunately the universe is cruel and their efforts were not rewarded. If anything, the opposite is true.
What made that single work so well was its sexy, colorful music video, and the sheer eye and ear-poking audacity of the song. That same combination worked for the Bs, Sugarcubes, and Ethyl Meatplow. In fact, the guys in Whale are not bad looking.
I guess he received a promo sans liner notes. At one point they even issued a fake bio that claimed a lineage back to under early incarnation The Southern Whale Cult. To this day the All Music Guide still includes this apocryphal info.