You feel questioned, like none of what I’ve done was actually me and that someone else handles everything. They’ve said, ‘Is she authentic? Is it real?’ At first, I laughed, but then I got sad about it. “That’s something that people have commented on when it comes to my authenticity.

“Shaping is an interesting word,” she says, bristling slightly. I suggest that Sucker Punch was an album that helped her become a touring artist, whereas this new record was about shaping her into a recording artist. Northern powerhouse … Sigrid at Leeds festival in 2021. I had this serene, alternative life, but there was this really scary thing going on at the same time. “Like, the whole day was about getting to the peak of a mountain, skiing down and then coming home to talk about how the snow was while having dinner.

“I got a bit scared of how quickly I adapted to this completely alternative life, where I was waking up in the morning, having breakfast with my parents, going for a hike and skiing,” she admits.

Back home with my parents, in my childhood bedroom, remembering cringe moments of being 14.” “With the success, I had that feeling that maybe I was cool,” she says. Then her life changed: she became a successful pop star, one with hit singles, 1.3bn streams and counting, and fans all over the world. As a kid, she had never considered herself cool, often choosing to play piano at home rather than socialise with friends. Forced back to her parent’s house in Norway by the pandemic, she found her old teenage insecurities creeping in. I n 2020, Sigrid had a crisis of confidence.

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