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Clip: 11/21/2023 | 5m 17sVideo has Closed Captions
Beloved MN Rockers Soul Asylum Introduce you to Loki's Folly
Beloved MN Rockers Soul Asylum Introduce you to sibling grunge band Loki's Folly
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Soul Asylum Needs You To Hear Loki's Folly | BackSTAGE
Clip: 11/21/2023 | 5m 17sVideo has Closed Captions
Beloved MN Rockers Soul Asylum Introduce you to sibling grunge band Loki's Folly
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- It's an ancient Swedish herding call (calling) and, yeah, it's meant to be very, very loud so that the cows can hear you.
(calling) - Ryan told me about Loki's Folly.
(screaming) And I was kind of blown away.
These kids aren't messing around, you know?
(guitar riffing) - I'm Annie.
- I'm Nissa.
- And I'm Oskar.
- And we're Loki's Folly.
(dinging) - [Ryan] Annie signed up for guitar.
- [Annie] Yeah.
- And it wasn't too long after that Nissa wanted to play drums.
Oskar, you joined shortly thereafter.
When you were seven, you started taking bass lessons and you said, "I gotta, hey, I gotta wait until I'm nine."
(laughing) - Not ready yet.
- I don't know why it was nine.
- You were just, you were very adamant about it though.
- That was when you were old enough.
(Loki's Folly "The Love Song" playing) ♪ Why did you come up to me?
♪ Why do you sit next to me?
♪ How do I tell you that I - [David] I, I hadn't seen that sort of raw power in a very long time.
I, I mean, it just worked for me.
It's like, it's unique and it's powerful and they're pissed off about something and I like that.
They don't seem that pissed off (laughing) in regular life, but, I don't know, maybe you guys are like that all the time.
(laughing) Ask your guitar teacher.
Do they just come in like, wow!
- I'm, I'm like, okay.
♪ I'm nothing like you, please go away ♪ ♪ I hate you, I hate you ♪ I hate everything you say and do ♪ ♪ I hate you, I hate you ♪ I hate everything you say and do ♪ ♪ I hate you, I hate you ♪ I hate everything you say and do ♪ (cheering) - [Nissa] It's not very fun to yell "I hate you" at someone just in a conversation, but doing it through a song is really fun.
I think most of our songs tend to have some sort of personal connection or meaning and I think it's definitely our way of expressing our own emotions, especially any emotions that are like hard to communicate and like trying to express my frustration as an autistic woman going through schooling and kind of really struggling with people in our situations not really acknowledging my need for help and telling me that the things at work I was experiencing weren't real or that I shouldn't be complaining about them.
And I think having this path of being able to give myself a voice was really helpful.
(Loki's Folly "Beaches and Peaches" playing) ♪ I'm sitting on the beaches eating peaches ♪ ♪ the government is corrupt.
♪ Employ an abogado with an avocado ♪ ♪ The world is gonna erupt.
(guitars playing) ♪ What's going on?
♪ What's going on?
(guitars playing) - [Annie] On first listen, you know punk and riot grrrl are definitely obvious influences but we do try to pull from a lot of different places.
And Green Day was our one of our first, first, first favorites.
♪ What's going on?
♪ What's going on?
(song finishing) - [Annie] But then we kind of developed other interests.
Like we'd hear something like Green Day or something and then we'd play it for our parents and like our mom would be like, "Oh," with like Green Day, she was like, "Oh you like this band?
You should try The Replacements, they're really cool, they're from here."
And then it would just kind of like evolve from there.
Like a lot of the local music, like Soul Asylum and you know, Replacements and H üsker D ü, and Babes in Toyland.
We just were like, "Wow, this is so cool, they're from where we're from."
And like we could be just like them 'cause we're in the same place they were, playing the same type of stuff.
(cheering) - Alright, gonna bring Loki's Folly up here.
- [Nissa] I didn't fully grasp the concept that there were all these bands that were from here.
That was a very exciting moment when I realized that there were so many of the bands that we listened to are from where we live.
- [Annie] Yeah, I mean I think just very giddy excitement getting to play with Soul Asylum and especially with songs that we obsessed over.
(Soul Asylum's "Just Like Anyone" playing) ♪ And she starts wonderin' what it's like to be ♪ ♪ liked by everyone and like everyone be ♪ ♪ Just like anyone and just wants to be so ♪ ♪ Just like anyone, just like anyone.
♪ (electric guitar riffs) (drumming) (song finishing) (cheering) - [Ryan] Loki's Folly and Soul Asylum signing off.
Thank you.


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