You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
This episode contains explicit language.
Likki Lee is a singer and songwriter from Sweden.
She started releasing music in 2007, and for most of it she's worked with producer Bjorn Jittling,
who's also a member of the Swedish band Peter, Bjorn & John.
Her second album, Wounded Rhymes, came out 10 years ago.
It was named one of the best albums of 2011 by the New York Times,
Pitchfork, The Guardian, and more.
And it won the Swedish Grammy for best album.
The song I Follow Rivers was the breakout hit from that album.
And for this episode,
Likke and Bjorn break down how they made it with help from co-writer Rick Knowles.
I spoke to the two of them while they were at Bjorn's studio, Ingrid Studios in Stockholm.
But before getting into the making of this song,
I wanted to start a few years earlier and find out how the two of them first started working together.
My name is Lykke Ly.
My name is Bjorn Ytling.
I think I met him when I was 20, and I had done some demos that I played for this record label guy,