“Young Folks” by Peter Bjorn & John featuring Victoria Bergsman

"Young Folks" was the first single from Writer's Block, the third album by Swedish band Peter Bjorn and John, and it arrived on Wichita Recordings in 2006 sounding like a secret you'd want to pass along. Peter Morén, Björn Yttling and John Eriksson wrote it together, and they brought in Victoria Bergsman, formerly of the Concretes and by then recording as Taken by Trees, as their guest singer.

The result is indie rock at its most featherweight and sly: a skipping beat, a hook that lodges and stays, and Bergsman's cool, offhand vocal turning the whole thing into something like a conversation. Critics were mostly kind, and it made the top 40 in a string of countries, the UK, Canada and Germany among them. Ted Malmros of Shout Out Louds directed the video, with Graham Samuels animating cartoon versions of Peter and Bergsman singing their way from place to place.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.