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"  Photo: Courtesy of ADA Music Danish singer Oh Land (Nanna \u00D8land Fabricius) may seem like she fell out of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe based on her imaginative, playful songs. Just watch her whimsical videos such as &amp;quot;White Nights,&amp;quot; which takes us into Dal\u00ED-like dream lands, and &amp;quot;Rainbow,&amp;quot; which transports watchers to a dark and spinning room where her face is coated in gold glitter. However, when the gorgeous musician visited our office last week to discuss her latest album, Wishbone (out September 24), she was sparkle-free (save for metallic nail polish) with a lock of gray-blue hair poking out from under an Acne hoodie. &amp;quot;Is this three or nine?&amp;quot; she asked, pointing to the hands on her Georg Jensen watch (she is the brand ambassador). &amp;quot;I suddenly forgot how it works! Have you ever done that?&amp;quot; For the new album she worked with David Sitek of the band TV on the Radio, as well as Sia, to create a sound that maintained the upbeat feel of her previous albums (Oh Land and Fauna) while incorporating brass instruments and hip hop-infused percussion. According to the musician, her new work was inspired by &amp;quot;accepting the limitations of reality rather than creating an idealized fantasy world.&amp;quot; Read on to learn why she chooses to see the good in people (especially in NYC), owns 88 snow globes, and might just move to the suburbs. How has your sound evolved on this album? It has definitely become more raw, direct, and personal. I am revealing more secrets about myself. My voice stands very much in the foreground of the music, and you hear my vocals better than ever. I have done less choirs and strings. It&amp;#039;s not like 30 people shouting something at you, it is like one person telling you [something]. How did the concept for the song &amp;quot;Renaissance Girls&amp;quot; arise? It is really inspired by both my own desire to achieve high levels in all parts of my life and [what happens when you] run into a wall and realize that you can&amp;#039;t do everything at once. A lot of my girlfriends are super high achievers, and they get disappointed with themselves. This is a song that both celebrates how much we can do but is also a little critical of our own expectations. You don&amp;#039;t have to be the best at everything in life. It is okay to chill sometimes. There are little girls who dance with you in the video for the song. How do they play in? They are the next generation. They are learning from the older generation, taking what they want and throwing away what they don&amp;#039;t like. Also, [they are] all the little girls who are going to rule the world in a few years. And two of the girls were my nieces [the two girls in red]. Do you think girls have a positive role model in the media? That&amp;#039;s a hard question to answer without saying certain names. Parents have to be a little more aware of what they expose their children to. When I was a kid, I saw all kinds of weird stuff. I wasn&amp;#039;t very monitored. But there wasn&amp;#039;t the Internet, so I wasn&amp;#039;t as exposed to the same things kids [see] now. You have to trust people\u2014that they are generally good and that they can make good decisions. I decide to have that faith in people. You, of course, have amazing style in the video. It all had to be comfortable. And instead of being typically beautiful and sexy, it needed to reflect some of the fun, random, and awkward moments in life. I wore a lot of 3.1 Phillip Lim in it, I really love that. And a Fendi jacket. I love that one, too. How did you choose your costuming for your upcoming tour? Designer Anne Sofie Madsen made the costumes based on conversations we had, and they are just amazing. There are a lot of pastel colors and that ballerina thing I can&amp;#039;t escape, but there is also a bit of a hip-hop element added into [the pieces]. They are a little bit like astronaut-ballerina costumes. How do you describe your personal style? I definitely love contrast. I like to have pretty and ugly, and fun and serious together. To mix it all and never become one fully whole balanced outfit, but always have some contradictions. For instance, if I wear a super sweet, girly romantic dress, then have something ugly with it like biker boots\u2014or Crocs. Something that makes people smile. What&amp;#039;s your beauty routine like? I always remove makeup before I go to sleep. And then I down a shot of apple cider vinegar. Once in awhile, not everyday. Mostly because it is uncomfortable and I feel like if it is that uncomfortable it must really have some benefits. I eat turmeric pills and fish oil pills every day. Other than that lots of oil, as much fat as I can get. I am a complete patchwork beauty expert. I just collect things that I think are fun or interesting from different places. I&amp;#039;m not too religious about it but I do like everything that is natural and that&amp;#039;s what I use the most. I like not wearing makeup, it makes me feel better. How do you choose a certain shade of hair color? [I&amp;#039;ve had] purple and pink, brown, blond, platinum, pretty much everything. I think the blue [because] I just got bored with all of the pink that a lot of people had and I thought the blue was a little bit disgusting. I felt like it would be a challenge. How do you harness your creativity? If you are just relaxed, open, and notice things around you, it can come quite naturally. If you are tensed up, chasing something, and impatient then creativity is hard to find. It is pretty easy to get inspired if you are asking a lot of questions in life. Being in another country and another city, and not exactly knowing where you are all the time, makes you ask more questions. And that&amp;#039;s really inspiring: to be an alien. Would you move away from New York? The good thing about New York it that it continues to feel new. What makes New York so unique are the people and the fact that everyone who moves [here] pretty much has some aspiration. It gives it that energy. But I might someday move to North Carolina, have three kids, and still remain a virgin. Do you feel like you would be comfortable in that suburban setting? I would be extremely uncomfortable but maybe that is what I would want from it. I always put myself in situations that are a little challenging. If things were just peaceful around [me], then I would hear my inner chaos a little bit louder. If there is chaos around [me], then it is easier to find that peace. If you had a super power, what would it be? I would be somebody who could kill with love. Somebody who could just love people to death. You know when you just see something really cute and just want to squeeze it because it is so cute? That would be me. Hear the exclusive premier of &amp;quot;Green Card&amp;quot; off Wishbone and look out for her North American tour, which kicks off this Friday at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York.      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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