Lykke Li on Surprise U2 Collaboration: 'It Was About Creating Intimacy' — rollingstone.com

"Most things in life come as a surprise," Lykke Li says the day after U2 surprised the world with their new record, Songs of Innocence. The Swedish-born singer is the lilting voice sublimely singing "Little by little..." amid the swirling strings and Bono's impassioned croon on the album's downtempo closing number, "The Troubles." When the band announced that half a billion people would be able to download its record immediately for free at Apple event this week, Li was "lying upside down" at her chiropractor's. Like everyone else, she was surprised. "This is kind of out of the blue," she says. "I have no idea about anything."

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