Blog: Culture Bully

It took over half a decade of creating music together as the Knife before the brother-sister duo of Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer performed in public. Their attempts at removing focus on the individual, rather than the art, are as notorious as they are futile. They decided to wear masks when promoting and performing their music, and that simply added mystique. They boycotted award shows because of gender inequity, and that just attracted attention for being selfless. Combine such acts with an insatiable brilliance and you can see the dilemma; how does one maintain artistic direction when attempting to [...]