Langer writes the majority of his repertoire alone, but also collaborates with among others Marcus Winther-John , Tim Christensen , Daniel Ahearn , Edie Kuhnle , and Justin Hawkins . Tim Christensen has contributed to several songs with backing vocals, guitar and bass on Langer's earlier albums, and Justin Hawkins sings backing vocals on Langer's upcoming album. He has announced that he will also be working with several artists and producers from the United States, including Ryan Tedder . About his approach to music, Langer says: "I'm very inspired of the way Keith Jarrett just lets his hands run out of control and create big poetic moments out of improvisation. The same can be said for other big artists like Ryan Adams and Jeff Buckley. I can relate to all three because they all seem to let their intuition and playful musicality take them to beautiful places. My own music originates in the same way.” Other musical influences he names are Chris Cornell , John Mayer , Prince , Coldplay , Rickie Lee Jones , Stevie Wonder , The Beatles , Nick Drake , The Band , Radiohead , Fionn Regan , Bob Dylan , Neil Young , and Ray Lamontagne . His voice is often compared to Thom Yorke's and Jeff Buckley's. His band, both in the studio and live, is composed of Søren Lund on guitar, Nis Tyrrestrup op bass, and Asger Møller on drums and percussion. On March 30, 2011, Langer introduced Simon Luth as his sixth band member and announced he will be the opening act for his shows in May 2011. Langer plays among others guitar, piano, Mellotron, and keyboard.
Langer grew up in the town of Skive, Denmark. His parents are both teachers and share a love for music. At age three, he started learning the piano and he listened to his father's record collection. When he was 15, he dreamt of moving to New York and becoming a rock star. In high school, he was in a Rage Against the Machine cover band. After finishing high school, a local audition in Skive got him in touch with a talent scout who suggested him to move to Copenhagen and present his homemade demos there. He studied jazz piano at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, but eventually he just started writing music It was during this time he started playing guitar. Ultimately this landed him a record deal with Copenhagen Records. Langer debuted on March 20, 2006
in Denemark with Attention Please, an album containing potent pop rock songs. It was scheduled to be released a year earlier, but in post-production he connected so well with Søren Balsner of Carpark North that Langer requested his label to scrap the recordings and start over with Balsner as producer. Despite an intense media hype and good reviews, the album had limited success in Denmark. According to Langer, his record label is to blame for raising unrealistic expectations: "As it often happens, when something is overhyped, then the media just gives you the finger afterwards when it comes out. Because of course this record isn't a masterpiece, but I think it's a very good debut for a very young guy, but that's never where we came to because they had been told that it was a masterpiece from the record label. So the minute it came out, it flopped." The song "Breaking News" became a hit. The American spotter Sat Bisla picked up on him which enabled Langer to perform in Great Britain and Germany, to move to New York City and from there often travel back and forth to Los Angeles, where he among others played before record company executives. This media circus life was taxing on him at such a young age, he had grown tired of other people's visions on his career, questioned his talent and got homesick, so in 2007 he quit his rock star life and returned to Skive. Equipped with only a map and his guitar, he roamed through Europe like a troubadour, playing about 100 acoustic shows (other sources say about 60[6]) for gas money to fuel his c. 1987 Volkswagen Polo which he bought after his return. He lived off the money he collected by selling his CDs after each show. The tour helped him to find himself again and garnered him a growing fanbase. Later in 2007, he composed and conducted the Danish performance of Hedwig and the Angry Inch at the Nørrebros Theater in Copenhagen starring Anders W. Berthelsen.
For his second studio album, Langer had written over 90 songs, of which he wrote "Say No More" together with Tim Christensen. He explains the cause of this large quantity as follows: "A minute doesn’t go by, not even a second, without a stream of new musical ideas or familiar phrases running through my head. My songs spring from that source." The record was eponymous because he felt this album made it clear in which direction he is headed in style and genre, whereas he felt the songs on his first album did not reflect him, but were what he thought others wanted from him. The album was released in Denmark on February 9, 2009. The critical reception was bland; critics judged that the music was more of the same and lacked a soul because it was too polished. He did score hits with "Wake Me Up in Time" and Fact-Fiction, a song he wrote in the United States in less than ten minutes and describes his confusion during that time. He started his tour as opening act for Tim Christensen and The Script before continuing his tour as main act. The songs "The River has Run Wild" and "Beauty of the Dark" have been used in the American television series The Vampire Diaries, On En Hyldest til Sebastian ("A Tribute to Sebastian"), released in October 2009, Langer covers the song "Stille Før Storm" ("Silence before the storm"). Sebastian originally wrote this song for Lis Sørensen, which led to her breakthrough.
Langer grew up in the town of Skive, Denmark. His parents are both teachers and share a love for music. At age three, he started learning the piano and he listened to his father's record collection. When he was 15, he dreamt of moving to New York and becoming a rock star. In high school, he was in a Rage Against the Machine cover band. After finishing high school, a local audition in Skive got him in touch with a talent scout who suggested him to move to Copenhagen and present his homemade demos there. He studied jazz piano at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, but eventually he just started writing music It was during this time he started playing guitar. Ultimately this landed him a record deal with Copenhagen Records. Langer debuted on March 20, 2006 in Denemark with Attention Please, an album containing potent pop rock songs. It was scheduled to be released a year earlier, but in post-production he connected so well with Søren Balsner of Carpark North that Langer requested his label to scrap the recordings and start over with Balsner as producer. Despite an intense media hype and good reviews, the album had limited success in Denmark. According to Langer, his record label is to blame for raising unrealistic expectations: "As it often happens, when something is overhyped, then the media just gives you the finger afterwards when it comes out. Because of course this record isn't a masterpiece, but I think it's a very good debut for a very young guy, but that's never where we came to because they had been told that it was a masterpiece from the record label. So the minute it came out, it flopped." The song "Breaking News" became a hit. The American spotter Sat Bisla picked up on him, which enabled Langer to perform in Great Britain and Germany, to move to New York City and from there often travel back and forth to Los Angeles, where he among others played before record company executives. This media circus life was taxing on him at such a young age, he had grown tired of other people's visions on his career, questioned his talent and got homesick, so in 2007 he quit his rock star life and returned to Skive. Equipped with only a map and his guitar, he roamed through Europe like a troubadour, playing about 100 acoustic shows (other sources say about 60) for gas money to fuel his c. 1987 Volkswagen Polo which he bought after his return. He lived off the money he collected by selling his CDs after each show. The tour helped him to find himself again and garnered him a growing fanbase. Later in 2007, he composed and conducted the Danish performance of Hedwig and the Angry Inch at the Nørrebros Theater in Copenhagen starring Anders W. Berthelsen.
For his second studio album, Langer had written over 90 songs, of which he wrote "Say No More" together with Tim Christensen. He explains the cause of this large quantity as follows: "A minute doesn’t go by, not even a second, without a stream of new musical ideas or familiar phrases running through my head. My songs spring from that source." The record was eponymous because he felt this album made it clear in which direction he is headed in style and genre, whereas he felt the songs on his first album did not reflect him, but were what he thought others wanted from him. The album was released in Denmark on February 9, 2009. The critical reception was bland; critics judged that the music was more of the same and lacked a soul because it was too polished. He did score hits with "Wake Me Up in Time" and Fact-Fiction, a song he wrote in the United States in less than ten minutes and describes his confusion during that time. He started his tour as opening act for Tim Christensen and The Script before continuing his tour as main act. The songs "The River has Run Wild" and "Beauty of the Dark" have been used in the American television series The Vampire Diaries, On En Hyldest til Sebastian ("A Tribute to Sebastian"), released in October 2009, Langer covers the song "Stille Før Storm" ("Silence before the storm"). Sebastian originally wrote this song for Lis Sørensen, which led to her breakthrough.
In December 2010, Langer offered a free download of "The River has Run Wild" off this album to anyone who joined his mailing list. In March 2011, the single "Microscope" was offered to new subscribers instead. "Microscope" entered the Italian charts at #25. It was written in around 30 minutes and came out of nothing. It was intended to be a happy song, but turned melancholic as the lyrics were written. Langer has already explained the theme of some of the other songs. "Last Flower" was written in memory of a Danish fan who committed suicide. In her suicide note she requested Langer to play at her funeral, where he performed this song. "Death has Fallen in Love" is about stopping to realize that someone you love could die too. The idea for the song came about while Langer' girlfriend was brushing her teeth.
A song that has not made its way onto the album is "Bowie and Champagne", which refers to a girl he fooled around with when he was growing up, but who tried everything and ended up a drug addict. The original lyrics were written after Langer woke up from a dream and jotted a few lines down about Aerosmith and wine. At that time he thought they might just be the best lyrics in the world, but when he checked them over the following morning, he felt they were too cheesy but could be improved with some changes.
From May 11 through to 14, Langer will go on a mini-tour through Denmark.
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Me Without You
Mads Langer Lyrics
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ATM with no cash
Four walls, no roof
Guilty, no proof
I swear, that's the truth (yeah)
Empty matchbox
Treasure under padlocks
Always a block away, running twenty minutes late
(Oh, ooh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
This is me without you
(Oh, ooh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
On the sun, in the sky full of clouds
(Oh, ooh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
Oh, this is me without you
Spaceship that can't get off the ground
I don't know which way is up or down
(Oh, ooh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
Oh, this is me, yeah
I'm like a crime scene (yeah)
Brooklyn in the nineties
I'm a walkman, no tape, no God, beliefs
Damn, I don't know what to do
Don't know what to do
(Oh, ooh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
Yeah, this is me without you
(Oh, ooh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
On the sun, in the sky full of clouds
(Oh, ooh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
Oh, this is me without you
Spaceship that can't get off the ground
I don't know which way is up or down
(Oh, ooh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
Oh, this is me without you
Me without you
Oh, this is me without you
Me without you
Electric body
I'ma need your therapy
'Cause I'm a star that's lost in your galaxy
When you're not on top of me
Oh, this is me without you
(Oh, ooh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
Yeah, this is me without you
(Oh, ooh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
On the sun, in the sky full of clouds
(Oh, ooh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
Oh, this is me without you
Spaceship that can't get off the ground
I don't know which way is up or down
(Oh, ooh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
Oh, this is me without you
Me without you
Yeah, this is me without you
Me without you
Oh, this is me without you
The lyrics of "Me Without You" by Mads Langer describe the feeling of being lost and incomplete without the presence of someone. The opening lines, "I'm like a car crash, an ATM with no cash..." compare the singer's state of mind to something that is broken and useless. Throughout the song, the singer describes himself as feeling lost, in a world without direction or purpose.
The comparison to a "spaceship that can't get off the ground" reflects the feeling of being stuck in a situation without hope of escape or resolution. The chorus repeats the refrain "this is me without you" as a way of emphasizing the importance of the other person in the singer's life. The final lines of "Electric body, I'ma need your therapy, 'cause I'm a star that's lost in your galaxy, when you're not on top of me" express a need for the other person's physical and emotional presence to feel complete.
Overall, the song captures the feeling of being lost and incomplete without the love and companionship of another person. It invites the listener to reflect on the importance of human connection and the transformative power of love.
Line by Line Meaning
I'm like a car crash
I am a disastrous and chaotic mess.
ATM with no cash
I am empty and unable to provide what is needed.
Four walls, no roof
I am incomplete and exposed, lacking protection and safety.
Guilty, no proof
I carry the weight of wrongdoing, but lack evidence to absolve myself.
I swear, that's the truth (yeah)
Despite my shortcomings, I am genuine and honest.
Empty matchbox
I am drained of creativity and ideas.
Treasure under padlocks
I hold potential and value, but am locked away and inaccessible.
Always a block away, running twenty minutes late
I am consistently absent and delayed, unable to be present and punctual.
Oh, I don't know what to do, yeah
I am lost and uncertain, lacking direction and guidance.
On the sun, in the sky full of clouds
Without you, I am lost in vastness and uncertainty.
Spaceship that can't get off the ground
I am stuck and unable to move forward without you.
I'm like a crime scene (yeah)
I am messy and disordered, surrounded by evidence of my own faults.
Brooklyn in the nineties
I am reminiscent of a time and place that is past and unchangeable.
I'm a walkman, no tape, no God, beliefs
I am outdated and irrelevant, lacking purpose and direction.
Damn, I don't know what to do
I am stuck and without a solution, feeling helpless and lost.
'Cause I'm a star that's lost in your galaxy
I am out of place and disconnected from everything outside of you.
When you're not on top of me
Without you, I lose my sense of direction and purpose.
Electric body
I am full of energy and potential.
I'ma need your therapy
I require your influence and support to function properly.
Oh, this is me without you
I am incomplete and lost without your presence and guidance.
Me without you
I am incomplete and incomplete without you.
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Written by: Mads Langer, Evan Bogart, Stuart Crichton
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