Towards the end of a rammed-to-the-rafters headline gig in her hometown of Copenhagen – which has run the gamut from synth-pop to punk – MØ wipes her brow after a comically long crowdsurf, and launches into a trademark version of Spice Girls’ Say You’ll Be There. It’s a cover so brilliant that Mel C herself has given it the seal of approval.
This scene feel like a fitting introduction to the world of MØ. Though she’s easily Denmark’s biggest pop export, and among the most streamed artists on Spotify thanks to her mega-hit Lean On (absent from the show’s debut album-focused setlist), the 35-year-old singer started out fronting a feminist punk band called MOR, and performing songs with titles like Fisse I Dit Fjæs (Danish for P**sy In Your Face) on Copenhagen’s activist squat scene.
