World Redress

Antoinette Kristensen is a singer and songwriter from Norway, now living in Los Angeles. If you are familiar with her work as a model or a reality TV star, you already know that she has a style, an image, and a way of expressing herself that is honest and all her own. Her style reflects many beautiful and glamorous women past and present, but it is the way that Antoinette, and only Antoinette, combines these elements to create a woman, an image, and a sound you cannot find anywhere else.

Electronic/Pop/Dance music is abundant and manufactured today. Our best performers, including Beyonce, do not write their own songs. This is one way of doing it and that works: Beyonce is a wonderful performer and singer and her request for original songs is a dream come true for the chosen few.

But Antoinette draws on the spirit of music that precedes our current era of “music as stimulus” and “music as business.” Antoinette Music follows the tradition of “music as art,” and thus a means of communication where wit, storytelling, and personal expression are the most valued set of criteria. In our current era where music screams for attention, Antoinette Music keeps you singing and dancing long after the music is over simply because a personal message by a mature songwriter elicits a response from the soul.

Dancing on a Rainbow expresses the innocence and sensual pleasure of new love completely through metaphor: a “bursting heart” that feels like it’s going to pop from “a 100,000 butterflies that want out” or (my fave) a heart that feels like it’s going to stop “like a rollercoaster when it’s about to drop.” Cynics and hopeless romantics alike would have trouble resisting this song – could be out of your realm of believability if you haven’t experienced this feeling recently, but that’s where Antoinette’s other assets come through, like her voice…

Back and Forth was Antoinette’s first single, released in 2008. This is a sexy song, but Antoinette’s delivery is the icing on the cake. Her velvet alto vocals with feminine high notes, reminiscent of the sounds from Gainsbourg’s women Jane Birkin or his daughter Charlotte, make this track, and the singer, unforgettable.

Crush on the DJ pays homage to the man who runs the show, rocks the party, and asks for very little credit. The video features Antoinette as the most beautiful and stylized (in place of stylish) gal in the club who ignores everyone except for the man who’s really behind it all – the DJ! The musical theatrics, like the piano and her “va va voom” “oh oh o-oh’s” are flirty and humorous. We don’t know if she gets together with the DJ, or if the whole scene was just a dream (or a video shoot), as the music fades and we see her dancing on the sidewalk alone… this is one of those times you really get to see what effect a “fade out” ending was created for.

Antoinette’s music is always fun and danceable, but to make it really shine, her lyrics paint pictures of emotions with a delivery that not only doesn’t quit, but takes you higher than you ever expected to go.

She has recently been back in the studio to record her new song and makes plans for the next knock-out video. Turn away for a second and you might have trouble keeping up. From what I’ve heard of the new stuff, all I can say is that she remains unpredictable and absolutely fierce!