Meanwhile, Martin, who grew up in the more-affluent south suburbs of Stockholm, was encouraged by his father, a former rally car driver, to pursue a career in motorsports - his dad gave him and his brother motorcross bikes that they later sold to buy electric guitars - or to follow him into the family tire business he wanted to do music instead. Zitron opened up about his upbringing in a broken home in the immigrant-heavy Tensta borough of Stockholm his Finnish mother and religiously devout Finnish-Romani father divorced when he was very young leaving his relationship with his dad “damaged.” The song’s now-iconic chorus - “My father said/ Don’t you worry don’t you worry, child/ See heaven’s got a plan for you” - was something essentially taken verbatim from his father’s words of wisdom. They talked about their lives while they picked away at a melody. Then one Sunday afternoon that May of 2010, after a hard night of drinking, they ended up in the studio. “That was like my brother.”įrom Swedish House Mafia to Skrillex, These Are 10 Ways the Year 2010 Predicted EDM “And we just like, we fell in love,” Zitron says about the friendship that formed. One Friday afternoon, they went to a liquor store together, bought some beers and listened to music in Zitron’s studio. They found their musical styles at the time – Zitron was writing pop songs and Martin was into indie rock - complemented each other.
More than a decade later, they were introduced by mutual acquaintances in the Stockholm music scene. (Zitron recalls Martin, with his trademark flowing locks, “looked like Jesus.”) Martin was in a rock group and Zitron had been in a boy band. Martin and Zitron went to high school together in Stockholm but didn’t know each other, even though they were both performing music by then. This is a song where you can cry on the dance floor.”Īs the two artists tell it, “Don’t You Worry Child” came from a pure place. “And that’s what actually made the EDM scene. “We love sad songs with big choruses, and storytelling,” says Zitron.
While the Swedish House Mafia members tell Billboard that their new music is an intentional departure from the anthemic big room sound that “Don’t You Worry Child” helped define, Zitron and Martin proudly recall the song as an example of the best that the EDM boom had to offer. Swedish House Mafia Returns: In Stockholm With the Dance Music Legends
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