
14 Songs, 44 Minutes
EDITORS’ NOTES
Karen Marie Ørsted’s pop ascendance happened so fast, she could hardly catch her breath. A year after releasing her debut album, the Danish singer struck gold with a feature on Major Lazer's “Lean On,” a global hit that broke streaming records and earned MØ collaborations with Justin Bieber, Snakehips, and Charli XCX. Despite pressure to release a follow-up, she wouldn’t be rushed. Instead, she left for Los Angeles to fulfill a lifelong dream of living in California. Her experience was bittersweet. On Forever Neverland—a nod to Hollywood’s obsession with youth—she serves up big, euphoric pop songs that are both soul-wrenching and sunny, and that wrestle to reconcile the city’s natural beauty (“Sun in Our Eyes,” featuring Diplo) with its superficiality (“California, you’re aware that everybody wants ya,” she sings on "Purple Like the Summer Rain”). The album’s lone interlude will resonate with anyone who’s spent time on Sunset Blvd.: “Right now all I want to do is call up my mom/And get my ass out of West Hollywood.”
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Intro
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Way Down
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I Want You
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Blur
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Nostalgia
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Sun in Our Eyes
MØ & Diplo
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Mercy (feat. What So Not & Two Feet)
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If It's Over (feat. Charli XCX)
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West Hollywood (Interlude)
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Beautiful Wreck
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Red Wine (feat. Empress Of)
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Imaginary Friend
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Trying to Be Good
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Purple Like the Summer Rain
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Ratings and Reviews
MO!
This is gonna be something special!
Sounds like a plain Jane playlist
There’s a couple good songs here and there but the album (as a whole) really has no depth, no real experience. It just sounds like a love playlist.
Her freshman album was wayy better, hell, her singles were better.
This is crap made for mainstream attention
Dreck
No Mythologies To Follow was innovative and interesting. There wasn't anything quite like it. This album is a disappointment from start to finish; these songs could have been written and performed by any any number of less talented people. It is boring contemporary pop.