Teitur Lassen, from Hoyvík, Faroe Islands, first came to the attention of t… Read Full Bio ↴Teitur Lassen, from Hoyvík, Faroe Islands, first came to the attention of the world with the release of his 2003 debut album Poetry & Aeroplanes, which won him rave reviews.

He concentrates on creating inspiring melodies and gentle but finely observed, often wry and quirkily observant lyrics. Since the release of his debut album, he has toured non-stop.

In 2006, in between performing at many major European festivals, Teitur started to record his second album. Stay Under The Stars, debuting in the Top 10 in Denmark, subsequently going Gold there and earning him the accolade of Best Singer at the Danish Music Awards (Grammies) in March 2007.

Teitur was born and spent his early years in The Faroe Islands. These bleak, but beautiful windswept, rain lashed, rocky outcrops in the Atlantic are due north of the UK and lie roughly mid way between Norway and Iceland. First settled by Irish monks and later Vikings, the Faroes were initially part of Norway and then latterly Denmark, of which they are still an autonomous region. The forty seven thousand Faroese who inhabit the Faroes are fiercely independent, even refusing to join the EU with Denmark. They retain their own language, with Danish only being used for commerce. It was this isolated upbringing with an inevitable sense of alienation and separation that informs much of Teitur's writing.

"Music is one of our main social activities," says Teitur. "There are always instruments in our homes. I started on my own music at thirteen, but the guitarist in my band was so much better than me and I was left at the back, playing acoustic. However I wrote all the lyrics from the start and in English. My native Faroese music is a part of me, but what really attracted me was pop music. Pop is almost all in English, which I find it gives me a bigger ocean of vocabulary," Teitur has more than one ocean of vocabulary to choose from as he speaks five languages. He finally decided to leave the islands, as many young Faroese do, at the age of 17 to study in Denmark. Then after a brief spell in Rome, he decided to base himself in London in 2002.

In mid 2007, Teitur started to pull together the songs that make up his third album: The Singer:

"The songs are written over a time-span of one to seven years. They are stories of events and experiences - like drinking beers on a musty hotel floor with mysterious blues musician Chris Whitley, before he died of cancer (Legendary Afterparty), or stories that I have come across in my lifetime..."

In October Teitur travelled to an island off the coast of Sweden called Gotland with his sound engineer Jonas and arranger Trondur, and recorded the album on a 19th century Swedish Princess' estate, normally a summer destination as a hotel, but at this time of year a beautiful, windswept and somewhat deserted piece of tranquility; interrupted only by the various musicians and singers who came to play or sing on the album, who all stayed at the hotel, during their work on the album.

"This album was made in tranquility and isolation. The result is a very natural and somehow nordic sounding record. Furthermore it has similarities to a musical or a book of short stories."

"On the cover of the album is a the picture of a cartoon figure which stands inside the room of an empty dollhouse. It looks almost like a skeleton and it has no face. The figure is a caricature of "The Singer" "

Feel Good
Teitur Lyrics

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I don't know you very well
I'll be the first to admit
I don't recall the situation
I just remember what i felt

All you do is make feel good
In a way i've never felt before
Now I can't stop thinking of you

I have a funny feeling
that you feel the same way too

Is almost too good to be true
I can't believe all this happening
It's only making sense inside me
and I don't know what to make of it

All you do is make me feel good
In a way I've never felt before
Now I can't stop thinking of you

Yeah you do something to me
I've actually been singing in the rain

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Teitur's "Feel Good" express the feeling of falling for someone, even though the singer doesn't know the person well. He admits that he doesn't recall the details of the situation in which he met this person, but he remembers what he felt - an overwhelming sense of happiness and contentment. The subject of the song makes him feel good in a way he's never felt before, and he can't stop thinking about them. He even suggests that he thinks the other person feels the same way.

The song expresses the thrill and uncertainty of falling in love. The singer can't believe that something so good is happening to him, and he doesn't know what to make of it. The lyrics suggest that he's been hurt before, and that this newfound joy and optimism is something new and exciting. The chorus repeats the sentiment that this person makes him feel good, but there's a hint of insecurity and hesitation in the singer's voice.

The song is a catchy, upbeat pop tune that captures the bliss of falling in love. The catchy melody and sing-along chorus make it an earworm that's hard to forget. Overall, "Feel Good" is a song that captures the nervous excitement and vulnerability of being swept off your feet by someone new.

Line by Line Meaning

I don't know you very well
I am not familiar with you or your personality

I'll be the first to admit
I confess that I lack knowledge about you

I don't recall the situation
I cannot remember the context of our previous interaction

I just remember what I felt
I remember the emotions that I experienced in your presence

All you do is make feel good
You cause me to experience positive emotions

In a way i've never felt before
Your effect on me is unique and unfamiliar

Now I can't stop thinking of you
You occupy a persistent place in my thoughts

I have a funny feeling
There is an inexplicable sensation inside me

that you feel the same way too
I suspect that you share these feelings

Is almost too good to be true
The extent of my positive emotions seems improbable

I can't believe all this happening
I find it difficult to accept that this is taking place