Lill Lindfors turns 80 - Here are the songs we will never forget

For many years she refused to play the song live, because many thought it was a dildo. But really, it's a response to the American model If you could put that in a bottle by Billy Meshel, which is about having a woman in a bottle in the fridge. Nowadays she likes to sing it, because "nowadays you can buy dildos at the pharmacy", which she told TV4 in January. Lucky for us to get it back in the repertoire, because it's an old-school orchestra gem that goes from comic electric organ to languorous strings, and with an irresistibly dramatic chorus that Lillfors sings with short, rhythmic syllables.

Those who say that Swedish is a poorer language than English have not heard the song lyrics to Rus, written by Peps Persson himself. Never has the Swedish of Swedish, namely the weekend super, dressed so well in words. In addition to a quick, sexy Latin beat. Yum. Perfect to dance to, but of course difficult to play when you are at the best salon drink and do not want to be reminded that “My heart has a frozen inherent, with pied confidence that does not feel well, she picks up everything I hide and remembers all that I forget and say she is me ”.

The word man may not have aged very well, surely is it something that makes it turn a little in the stomach? But what Lill Lindfors meant when she sang it sounds more than clear. And for the middle class millennials and generation z in the big cities who have learned all they can about the love of gender theorist Judith Butler, it is something almost even more exciting and forbidden today. Imagine being able to wallow in such raw, binary heterosexual love? Maybe that's why it sailed up as a karaoke favorite. The 1960s sound is magical, but Agnes Carlsson's updated version of So Much Better Shows that the song lasts even when it is changed.

Oh, what you love about all these Swedish covers from the 60s and 70s, the time when all English hits would get inventive translations. Jackson with Johnny Cash and June Carter who became Laxå with Towa Carson, or Bob Marley's No woman no cry who became A woman a man with Sten & Stanley. Here, Burt Bacharach's Always Something to Remind Me has turned, as is so often the case with Lindfors, into a wonderfully smashing boss anova. And as she sings. Horse, with lots of air. From soft pensive longing, to sharp, fierce desperation.

Is Lill Lindfors primarily a singer? No - rather entertainer. She tells, entertains and plays small scenes when she sings. In this little short piece at 1:28, she gets to show off her revue: ige page when she sings with clear diction in a kind of blur away your sour min for adult girls, written by Robert Broberg. But don't miss the birth of God, not Tage Danielsson's 1983 version, of what a winning, gloomy chief's coward should look like - maybe even better than the original.