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Spring Break
The spring is coming and it feels so good as the days are getting longer. It’s funny how much power the sunlight actually gives you every morning compared to the darker or foggy months. Here in Helsinki now every day is six minutes longer than the day before. If I could choose, the winter could be a bit shorter, but damn it feels good this time of the year as the light finally wins and every day is a step towards the summer. I can already smell it.
I had a really cool video and photo shoot this weekend in Berlin and then I also met my whole team at Universal on Monday. We’re so many that the conference room was too small ;) These days meetings are mostly online and that’s ok too, but for me nothing beats being in the same room with everyone face to face. The same goes with music. Listening to something in your own bubble alone is super cool, but when we get together in a club, that’s when the magic happens. I’m so happy with what we have on the strategy table now and it seems like we’re gonna have lots of fun in the following months and years.
After Berlin I was supposed to go snowboarding for the rest of the week at the Alpes with my friends, but then I caught a cold or some virus and here I am enjoying my spring break on my sofa under a blanket watching movies. Well, I’d rather be sick now when there is no studio microphone or TV camera in front of my face. It’s actually been pretty hectic weeks and months now and stopping for a moment isn’t the worst idea. They say a good worker gets sick on their holidays. Ok, bad joke. But maybe now that I can get sick, my body must have let go of its defense and honestly, I can go snowboarding some other week too. Hopefully now as I have a chance to sleep a lot and to rest well, the bug won’t stay with me for too long. I’ve never been the word champion in taking it easy so maybe this is all for the best. We’ll see.
It's a little over three weeks from the release of “Gimme Your Hand.” Damn it feels right and damn I love the song so much. Thank you all for the heartwarming (and heartbreaking) messages and words you’ve said and shared the last weeks. And thank you for voting at the radio chart shows and for doing what you do. It all really matters <3
Next week is a full studio week and after that we’ll be much smarter about how we can put things in the calendar for the future. It all looks very good, but producing an album and planning tours is a bit like building a house. You need to have the foundations, walls and roof built properly first and then you can start planning the decoration and the date you move in. But it looks very good and I hope we can plan the next steps soon. I just wish you could all hear the raw versions of the songs I’m hearing every day. I’ve mentally been on a club stage a million times already listening to them.
But now. Back to my sofa and blanket for a day of two. I think I’ll order a massive pizza and some candy too. I really don’t eat sweets anymore but today is a special day. Today I’ll reward myself for all the hours in studio and on the road and also for finding the courage to be on this road I love so much already.
Hope you’re all doing good & healthy and you can feel the spring and some new hope in your hearts. There are good times ahead <3
Lots of love,
Samu