Lukas Graham on Being a Father | Elvis Duran Show

the mercedes-benz interview room of course you heard the single "love someone" and of course last christmas i know she was reading the words you were actually reading the words while you were singing yeah what does that tell you?, exclusive, yeah, I'm not going to cover E and we don't play covers anymore when we do

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passed away six years ago, almost six and a half years ago, and so Christmas songs in English or at least them. an english language that has kind of disappeared from my repertoire we sing danish psalms now mostly seems like the biggest danish christmas song on heartful goes full height for stories cornette spoiler you look lens and speed low man speed slow speed oh new pekin not dense and it's about the Christmas tree, which is a German Scandinavian tradition that is now all over the world, as you can see, it's about how at the top of the green tree is the Christmas star and it's about all the gifts and the children who want their presence. but not yet, not yet, first we need this and you're saying that you invented the Christmas tree that the Germans made, but I mean Santa Claus used to be green and white and then Coca-Cola came along, he's the biggest, he's the biggest brand. trick in the story but it works I mean he was from the forests of Germany it depends what country you are and he was cool I mean in Italy he dropped coins down your chimney in Germany he was kind of like a boot in Denmark we had You have to feed the elves on the farm or they will burn your

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Christmas wasn't always a good thing, boy, wait, he was green or his clothes were green, well, his clothes were green, that sounds like a Martian, he was an ogre. and he ate your children. I know you know it's the same as the Chinese saying they invented pasta and the Italians getting all the pasta noodles. How many languages ​​do you speak? Almost five, what's point five. I mean, the Danish is. I have fairly fluent English, I speak Swedish fluently. I can make myself understood very well and then there's German and Spanish, which don't have much grammar, but the words are there and I like to get the wine lists, so Spanish is probably your best bet.

I'm still struggling with a bit of madness. German. Spanish is what I'm good at. I lived in Argentina ten years ago for six months and look at the difference between Spanish and German. Nothing in common. German is grammatically similar to Russian. So it's a case. language you could say Spanish French Italian it's easy if you know English because Constitución is just Constitution rap it's fast so you have all the Latin words that you can translate directly so I know I don't know about you. I learned languages ​​by going there and having to order from a menu, it really adds a whole.

If you want to eat, you learn the Spanish language. I landed in Argentina on January 7, 2009 and then and my friend, my water, that was. I'll stay for the five months. He said we're going sailing with four of my friends and one of his parents, and they don't speak English or Danish. And I'm not going to speak English or Danish with you when we're there. with them and this woman this girl Wanda took me by the hand and in basic Spanish said now I'm going to teach you how to talk to girls and then she literally without knowing any English walked me through this bar and made me talk to all these girls different Did they force you to learn?

They basically forced me to learn a language and then you walk to the supermarket and you want to cook. You are like Kay is a soul and they are like Santo Día. You are fine. so there's no audio that's my carrot super good you're bound to learn you'll just turn us on Lukas Graham is here I just loved someone made me cry a grunt wasn't that that was a beautiful compliment well I decided you didn't cry inside it's okay that out. I texted my sister and said, “I feel the same way about you.” Yes, that's OK.

Oh, how long does it take you to write something like that? Does it take a long time to write something as sincere and heartfelt as that? I think the problem with the song like we love someone is that you actually have very few words to use and I mean the course is repetitive. and the bridge, the bridge itself is repetitive, so you only have two verses and a bridge to explain the story and it's easy to make a cheesy song about how you love your wife and your children, and that led us from September 17 to we would like it February 18, but it's like we're a big group of guys that write songs together, some of us have been writing together since 2005 and then others have joined in along the way, so we're not afraid, at least I'm not afraid to say that I can't work with the song anymore, we leave it and come back to it, how annoying, no, I just write everything I have at hand, so I close the book and we write something else or we go to dinner, sometimes you just need. a change of scenery or when another person comes in here's the lyrics and says wow how about this and you say where have you been for the last 3 or 4 months?

Do you ever jump out of bed and say? I got it, now I know what. It's my daughter's two years in two months of when I'm in bed now I'm in bed before I liked it right before I fell asleep but like that's an idea and I would write it like now' I like it and then I wake up and say: If I even slept? No, it's not that bad. Everyone should have children. It's great to survive unless you sleep. It was a group of I have guys that sat down and wrote this song, yeah, I mean, how can you not love these guys?

Exactly five guys you would think, well, let's go bowling, but you just wrote them one of those tender love songs ever written, let's listen. for the five boys now if you think you love Lucas and the five boys now let's talk about how your life changed when you became a father you're talking about your daughter who is two years old yes and you totally changed as a human

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I' I guess once your daughter was born you talk about how your life changed well you know when women get pregnant they become mothers and dads just see it as okay so you're growing up and I don't understand this and I'm speaking from my personal experience and It's not that I'm not telling anyone about my experience, but as soon as the child was born, I was instantly a parent, but I didn't really understand it before I was physically there. in front of me um, I mean, it's like you suddenly realize that okay, I'm going to do everything I can to protect you, which is a feeling that you don't have, yeah, like you defend your friends or you I would like to protect your friends. sister, but suddenly you have a kid who's like wow, I can break your heart more than any kid in the world.

One day when I died it was one of the first thoughts as if my daughter had been born almost as a couple. weeks after the anniversary of my father's death. Wow, a week after my own birthday, I turned 28 and my best birthday gift was a week after that. I made up my mind and I think that just because I lost my father, I'm aware of the calamities of parenthood it's like no matter what a boy does to my daughter, I will eventually hurt her more, that's a strange thought or a girl, I mean, she can decide what she wants.

I never thought about that. I never thought about that. I remember thinking when I was pregnant with my mom. She was as worried about the baby inside me as she was about keeping him safe and eating the right things and my mother told me, "You think you're worried now, she waits until." she's out in the world and wait until you know she's breathing the air and the air of Jersey, you know, I was like you're right and now more than ever I'm like petrified, I'm constantly afraid of everything, no, that's what my mom said. she said yeah, now you're worried with the kid in your arms, just wait until your kid has kids and I was like, oh my gosh, I can't even imagine my mom sitting at home and thinking about her three kids, all of you.

They have three". have a son each, we all have a daughter each and she must be terrified of other things that you have a son and then you realize, oh my God, our parents didn't know anything, because I don't know anything, yeah, well, I have I can't imagine what it's like to be a father like the day my mom came home and found me wearing her scary clothes. The things that underwear does. I also think that's what terrifies me. It's like having dinner with a glass of wine. and suddenly my daughter is two years old and you said too much and viola would like a glass of wine.

I'm like having a daughter in particular changes your perspective on men and women in the world and you like the struggles that women have and How hard is it since I was born in Scandinavia which is a very gender equal part of the world . We're not there yet, but we're working on it and I had a daughter and suddenly I thought Denmark was the most unfair place. country in the world I can't believe there's a pay gap I can't believe there's a right yeah that everything out there will pressure you to dress correctly because I had a talk with Sarah Larson not long ago and then and she said that I was like wow, she looked good today and she looked at me like Mike, yeah, and you can

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up like that and I'm so jealous and I think that was a compliment or this and she's like no. there's just pressure on me to put on makeup and put on a dress before I go and do these things show up in jeans and a t-shirt before having a daughter, you didn't really think much about it, I guess not no, but you know what you get I've heard it said that having a daughter didn't really change you as an artist as much as it changed you as a man not exactly, but changing as a man obviously changes you as an artist eventually it does.

Yeah, yeah, my point is that I'm still writing these autobiographical songs. I'm still writing songs from where I am in life instead of where someone else is. It's the best way for me to connect with people because if I believe in the story, I can make you believe the story and in that sense, I don't think I've changed much as an artist, but I do prioritize differently, like If someone asked me for a selfie and I'm with my daughter. say it's not very simple because my daughter is worth more than anything right um yes it is and today I'm going to Orlando and she's staying here in New York and I won't see her until tomorrow Disney World well the thing is you I don't want to fly too much With kids, they need to learn to fly, but you don't want to fly with them every other day, so they need a stable environment.

I'll just come up with things she can do here in New York. You know that we have the toy store, there you know that we don't need more toys, we need books, we need books for our children, because like in Europe I can, you can if you went to a bar to watch a sporting event. you could bring your kids bring your kids you can't do that but you can't even bring your kids to a concert that's how we do that at home too we're not complete psychopaths we're not trying to ruin our kids You know, probably the good thing about New York is you have all these little playgrounds, which makes it really easy, we're walking around and you viola like Oh, swings and you're cool, now we have 40 minutes. yeah we can spend 40 minutes here on the swings you'll find something to do with her I'm sure the problem is when they're 14 and they're like dad I'm bored then they want to go shopping two years and two months it's like outside a purple car every morning she is pointing out the hotel window you are very careful I am very very careful I pamper her with books and with love when she had a birthday or the two birthdays she had I told my friends not to approach me no stupid plastic toys, like buy him some books, buy him something he can use.

She has a wooden kitchen at home. She cooks tomato soup for me every other day, be careful, dad, it's a little hot. toy and it will be the biggest toy ever and she wants to play with the box, that's what we have a lot of fun with boxes, yeah, it's like we get into them, put things in them, take things out of new, it's good. to teach them how to clean now, when before they left the hotel room, she is like dad, she remembers to clean the suitcase because we started traveling with him when she was five weeks old, we took her on a tour of North America and Europe, so He has traveled everywhere. the world and we didn't have a lot of space, so we just don't have a lot of things for her, right?

And she, what she has, she loves it, okay, I mean, she likes people and she likes crawling on other people's laps. and eat her food instead of sitting with mom and dad, then we don't need to give her an iPad for dinner. Do you know at what age her daughter will receive a phone? It must be a fad, they are about to disappear. again we are trying not to go to the screens good books are fine it's great it's been great to have you here thanks for inviting me back the performance you and the boys sounded amazing anything thank you very much Lukas Graham of course the singles called love Someone, but I dare you Listen to it again, Gandhi, and don't cry.

I'll download it. Everyone should cry today. Sometime. Where will we see each other next time? top Hannah Steen Ballroom March 15 I'm comingI'll be back in a few months Welcome back to many months. Leave your daughter here for a couple of months and know that I will be fine. In fact, I'm flying to Orlando today and returning tomorrow to pick up myfamily before flying to Berlin. There dad will be back in two months every time I leave the house for 10 minutes to go get milk or something my daughters like and dad is traveling now and of course now I'm home and I start crying, I get it with a daughter, okay?

Lukas Graham I love someone please if he touched you as much as we did you need to make sure everyone you know has him on their phones or wherever they have his music. Thanks for coming. Thank you very much for inviting me. Merry Christmas or in Denver. We don't say Happy Holi, we just say Merry Christmas and then we also say Happy Hanukkah and we like how to say it in your language, there is the Santa Claus who burns the farms, it's not the Santa Claus, it's the L, it's called and it's missing and everything what I do.

I need to put a bowl of oatmeal right on top of the rice porridge, like in the Attic, with cinnamon sugar and a big lump of butter. What a way it is that where they come in the Attic, that's where they live. I didn't know. That, my God, is a scary place. It is a legend because of the thatched roofs of the old farms of Scandinavia. We don't need our phone and I have learned a lot from you. Thank you.