A Totally Clueless Introduction to Sigur Ros
So, I was at a hookah bar with my friend - Myra’s - boyfriend, Trevor, and my friend, Luis. Now, Trevor buys his pants from Japan and doesn’t shop at places like Target because he figures he can get better quality things from more expensive places. That is just a intro to the selective nature of Trevor. So, while in this hooka bar we were going on about music - and me with my expansive knowledge of music - obviously i had a lot to say. Trevor took out his iPhone and said ‘listen to this band I think you will really like them.’ This band was Sigur Ros, and Saeglopur was the first song I ever heard of theirs:
And I just thought they were beautiful. At first I thought the singer was a girl because in this song he sings really high pitches; however, this is not the case - he is definitely a guy. Now, despite popular belief (or at least my popular belief) they are not a Swedish band, they are actually Icelandic - duuuh. Here’s a little secret about what I do when I listen to them: see, I really like to sing along but I don’t know Swedish so I make up my own words. Sometimes when they sing it almost sounds like they are singing in English - in fact, I am so good that I can actually make my version make sense. Later, while talking to my sister - I told her that i really like Sigur Ros. Not only was she extremely surprised that I had even heard of them but she was also surprised because she feels that I am not pretentious enough to listen them. Then it all made perfect sense because Trevor is pretentious - although I don’t think he is that pretentious because my sister is pretty pretentious and she says she not even pretentious enough to listen to them.
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May 29th, 2008 at 12:07 am
Trevor wears Japanese pants? Is it because he’s… pretending to be Japanese?
Lolz.
…btw, I’m totally not pretentious…
May 29th, 2008 at 1:50 am
uh.. it’s not even Icelandic, actually..
they, sigur ros themselves, call it “Hopelandic”, a sort of nonsense language, whose phonetic resembles Icelandic’s one.
so you can keep on singing along “nonsensically”, because it’s what also sigur ros’ singer do.
and yes.. they are absolutely awesome.
May 29th, 2008 at 3:23 am
See? Sergio is WAY more pretentious than I am. He knows facts about this band.
May 29th, 2008 at 6:33 am
maybe it was a type-o, since you stated that they’re not swedish, but they certainly don’t sing in swedish (i’m a native swedish speaker so i know)
icelandic is actually quite different from swedish. as for “hopelandic”, i have no idea, i just know that i don’t understand it 
May 29th, 2008 at 9:52 am
I think she was kidding.
And apparently, they sing in Goobledigook.
May 29th, 2008 at 11:47 am
me kidding? hell no!
we, in Italy, may know NOTHING about Jocelyn’s favs (Journey), but Sigur Ros are “famous” (talking indie, of course). their concerts are always sold-out, and it could happen to see one of their video on mtv, between Britney and Pussycat Dolls.
The “Takk” album (2005) reached #4 in the chart (I’m talking of the “mainstream” one, not the “alternative” or “modern rock” one. we have only one chart, actually).
and.. (according to wikipedia) some songs are in real Icelandic, some other in hopelandic (or “hopelandish” as reported there).
or.. they all are just making a fool of the rest of the world.
May 29th, 2008 at 11:50 am
(er.. I notice you wrote “she was kidding”.. who was the “she” you were referring to?
anyway.. me, I was not kidding!!)
May 29th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
She is my sister, Andie. The little lady who wrote this post.
May 29th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Also, here in good old North America, only the most pretentious people listen to Sigur Ros. It’s quite a strange phenomena. I assume it’s not the same over there. I, however, have never really listened to them because I am immediately disqualified for secretly liking the All-American Rejects.
May 29th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
yeah, different story over here.
but this is the perfect setting for you! liking a band only pretentious people like and liking one they really don’t (i’m assuming here, but the “secretly” kindof tipped it off) is the perfect match - especially if you make it no secret! - it usually pisses them off, and what’s more fun then pissing pretentious people off, right?
May 29th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
only the truly pretentious are so pretentious that they exaggerate their un-pretentious qualities in order to piss of the pretentious.
May 29th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
touché.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:17 am
I’m not pretentious….
May 30th, 2008 at 2:27 am
Trevor, you wear Japanese pants. Obviously that means you’re pretentious.