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From an April 2008 interview with Jens Lekman on NPR’s Talk of the Nation:
I really like how I discovered that all the time, how a lot of songs throughout the history seems to be flowing through my songs. And I’m definitely not ashamed of anything I have ever stolen. I’m very proud of it. We always incorporate that into our shows actually. And I especially like when there are two songs that are being put together, like in the song I just played “The Opposite of Hallelujah.” After I played that song, a lot of people came up and said, that sounds a lot like Chairmen of the Board’s “Give Me Just a Little More Time.” But I was thinking about the Swedish song called “Movie Star” by a guy named Harpo. I don’t know if you remember that. Then, I realized the two melodies had melted together and become something new. Something like that.
