I Like People

Gry Jannicke Jarlum is coming out with a new album. I'm a BIG fan of her. If you dont know who she is, I can tell you that she is a Norwegian musician that became popular in Norway when I were little, with a hit called 'Svake Mennesker', if I translate it into english it will be 'Weak People'. Her morals on smoking and drinking in those lyrics made me think about these things and feel it was important to not follow the mainstream. Of course there were a lot of other things as well that made me think like that, Jannicke was just a small part of it. Anyway, she stayed away from the spotlight for a long time and then came out again in some magazine, claiming that she had communicated with aliens in the times she had been away. She was made into a joke by the entertainment media and few people took her serious. No matter what, she was and probably still is a great musician that wrote lyrics that went beyond the easy pop music that other popular Norwegian artists brought about, it's something to remember. Since I were an old fan, I was loyal and tried to give her the chance the media didn't. When she gave out a book that she claimed her aliens had written trough her, I tried my best to get a hold of it. It was called 'Du Er Jeg' wich means 'You Are I'. It was not a book they wrote many reviews on and it was hard to find. Eventually I wrote to her personally, after finding out that she used to spent a lot of time on the Internet. I located her email adress and asked her where I could find her book. She sent it to me personally and wrote in it, Ah, I was so happy. She was just a normal person from some small place in Norway, while I was a big fan of her work...

The book is great by the way, it's even a CD that came with it. It's deep, it's politics and no matter what you believe in you have to admit that it's very intellectual. I wish everything were as the book says it is, I wish we are not alone, I wish we all have a point in life and I wish there is something more than this... In a strange way, the book gives you all the answers, -in a way I personally would have wanted the answers to be. It's poetic, it's sad, it's melancholic, it's morphine for the hurt and it's hope for the dreamers... It seems almost too good to be true, to sensational and you end up being skeptic. I mean Jannicke is a musician after all, an artist, maybe she lets her emotions run wild. I belive I can see myself like that, maybe it's just certain people that acctually can fall for these things, I dont like to think about that. I'm someone that think it's more frighting to imagine that there is nothing more than us, or this life, than to think there is... I feel it would be naive to belive that we are the only ones in the big space, or is it a dreamers fantasy to think that it is?... No matter what, -we are different, in our own ways and maybe beneath the differences we not that different. It's what makes us interesting and amazing. If none of the things we imagined ourselfs truly exist without us, then we are the once that are the things we belive in. So no matter what we make it into, human beings are quite exceptional, in themselves, they are like a big space behind the face. I mean really, I belive that, you can feel that way if you are open to it. How great would'nt it be to meet someone on the other side of the planet, or someone you thought were the complete opposite of you, only to find out that they were a lot more that. Behind the differencies you would find a mirror of yourself but see a completely different face. It would be like getting to know a whole new part of yourself... When I sit and think like this, I feel I like people, despite of their bad ways, I want to know them, be social and less introverted and shy. It's a good feeling I wish I felt more often...

If you know Norwegian, you can read an interview of Jannicke here. I came over a pretty interesting article not long ago, at Unknown Country, I wanted to link to here, generally because I liked it and it has to do with the things I wrote here today.

"Why do they never accept me,
I who am always myself."
-Jannicke Jarlum-