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Old Apr 8, 2021, 08:49 AM
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Where was it confirmed that Annika Ljungberg is the Annika in question?

edit: confirmed here: https://www.aftonbladet.se/spela/a/B...legend-of-mana

partial translation of the article/interview here:

"Shimomura has decided that it [the song] won't be sung by a well-known artist, and neither should it be in Japanese. That's when she somehow came upon the Swedish Rednex star Annika Ljungberg, who recently featured in the TV series Baywatch, after David Hasselhoff personally handpicked three songs from her album "Me & Myself". Shimmomura is enthralled - and gets on a plane to Stockholm."

"- I was contacted by Yoko's management. She had heard my voice samples and had thought that this was exactly what she was looking for. The text was translated by a girl in Sweden who didn't have a clue how the rhythm was supposed to be applied to the text [note: this is noticable when listening to the song]. It was no walk in the park. It caused a few grey hairs and it was a technical challenge just getting it to work. I had no experience whatsoever with games of this kind, Annika Ljungberg tells us in Nöjesbladets Spela-podcast 15 years after the release of "Legend of Mana"."

"- I was told it was the game she was most satisfied with artistically. She succeded wonderfully with the entire composition. We spoke the same language artistically and she was very humble."

Did they ever explain why they wanted the song to be in Swedish?

"- No, that remained unknown to me. We didn't have a lot of time when they flew in to Stockholm. I stood openly in the studio, in other words not in my own booth, so that they could communicate with me by body language, since we didn't really understand eatch other at times, she says with a laugh."

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