Lykee Li - Sadness is a Blessing

Warning: this is chalk full of awkward tension. To say nothing of the videography itself (Lykke Li’s dancing, Stellan’s facial expressions, or the overall rampant Swedishness) this is piece leaves a strange indent.

Sadness is a blessing
Sadness is a pearl
Sadness is my boyfriend
Oh sadness I’m your girl.

Pretty good chorus there Lykke Li.  For someone born in 1986 you are wise beyond your years.  This has been said over and over again, by many far more acquainted with grief then we. But why is sadness a blessing? why can it be beautiful? Being a drowned man myself, I may have something to say, but for now I will pass it off to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:

“What makes the desert beautiful,” said the little prince, “is that somewhere it hides a well…”