This article originally appeared on Noisey UK.
Olivia Merilahti and Dan Levy of The Dø are sat at either ends of a canapé at their record company offices having an argument about pop music. 60s pop music to be precise, though—for a band that has made one of the finest and most direct alternative pop albums of recent years in the shape of Shake Shook Shaken—they can’t agree on much modern pop either. Olivia is a self-confessed fan of yé-yé, the francophone version of bubblegum teen-pop sung by all those swinging mademoiselles in the 60s, while Dan is making a case for the chanson and crooners like Charles Aznavour, as though the two are mutually exclusive and can’t exist in the same pop-sphere.
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