Helmerson: Does Sarek’s AIK song cause more violence than the gangster stairs?
You hear the first tones, you hear the rabid -infected joke and the gist knee harp and it’s just to crack the knuckles, think « yeah, here we go » and hope for the best.
Sarek’s song « Through Fire and Water » was just selected into the Melodifestival Hall of Fame. Rather, it belongs in the war tribunal in The Hague. I wonder if any Swedish song, All Gangsterrap included, caused more violence than « through fire and water ».
Because it is a rule now, That as soon as the chorus « I’ll love you until the heart stops beating » is heard in the pub in Årjäng or Åstorp everyone has to scream out into the air: « Oh we hate AIK ». Then all of us AIKs in the room, often in risky minority, at the same time must stretch the arms and with our most dangerous voice « hello hello AIK! »
Then just sit down, wait and see if fists start flying around ears.
For a second, as AIKs, you may be considering being an adult instead and sitting on your hands, but this is quickly excluded, because being a football supporter also means being partially lobotomized.
All supporters flatter themselves with That they are exposed to a conspiracy, that the whole world hates their team. But the hand on the heart: If the chorus instead went « I will love you until everything gets sour and keff » no high school economist in Ånge would think it was the least effort to put away their beer, box the air and sing that they hate MFF.
If Sarek sang « and I drive you until I find someone new » no one would dream of answering anything about nasty Hammarby. It is much more likely that this Northern economist is actually at Hammarby, which is outside Stockholm.
An ex-colleague from the countryside once wrote star-eyed and triumphant that the thing about singing « Oh we hate AIK » to Sarek is « the finest we have ». And I don’t doubt his words. Not given that competition is not always razor sharp in the province, not when the election on a Friday night is between singing about AIK and voting in the Miss Milk Pallet competition.
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