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"But we tend to like the originators of a style, people who started something, because usually that's rougher, most cleverly done."Īsked to contribute their 25 favorite songs to last month's issue of Maxim Blender, the pair named everything from Lynn Anderson's "Rose Garden" to Run-DMC's "Run's House."Īlthough Junior Senior's lyrics seldom go deeper than "Say hey gay, get out of my way/ Say hey straight, you're always too late," Laursen says there's an underlying message of tolerance in the band's frothy words. "We don't like to say five bands, because we then feel bad about the 100 other names we didn't say," he says. Critics have spent much time evaluating Junior Senior's musical influences, but even Laursen is hesitant to start naming names. "D-D-Don't Stop the Beat" is a lean blend of Motown, rockabilly, disco, and garage rock. The result is an album completely lacking in pretense. Instead of these big, wordy soundscapes, we just wanted to create music that cut to the bone." We were fed up with the whole pseudointellectual blah blah.
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"We wanted something to turn that around. "We started out in 1998 because we were tired of the whole Radiohead, Jeff Buckley vibe that was big in Denmark," Laursen says on the phone from a tour stop in North Carolina. "We want to be like Nancy and Lee," they gleefully declare on the song "White Trash," expressing their hopes of evoking idols Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood through their songs. Despite their physical differences, the odd couple's musical interests blend perfectly. Junior (Jesper Mortensen), the slight, neat, baby-faced one, is straight. Senior, the big, hulking mustachioed one, is gay. The band plays its first ever Boston show tomorrow at the Middle East.Ĭontrast is the fuel that appears to power the Junior Senior party machine.
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The song also spent nine weeks in the UK Top 10, and the band's album "D-D-Don't Stop the Beat" has received near universal rave reviews. It's cool with us if people don't get what we're trying to do, because there are plenty of people who do."Įnough people, in fact, that Junior Senior's "Move Your Feet," a song that sounds like a long-lost, Chic-produced Michael Jackson track, was the most-played song in the duo's native Denmark last year. Maybe not so much lyrically, but musically our songs work very deeply. "Substance is a strange word because of course we think that there's substance in our music. "We put as much substance in our songs as Coldplay or Radiohead," Laursen says. It seems that Junior Senior, the thinking man's party band of 2003, puts serious deliberation into its coconut shaking. But Jeppe Laursen - the Senior half of pop duo Junior Senior - begs to differ. These are not titles that would be mistaken for substantive songs.