Swedish pop duo JUBËL are back better than ever with their recent drop Weekend Vibe.
It’s an effortlessly uplifting tune with feel good vibes and as always, a switch up from their usual sound.
They said:
For Weekend Vibe, we took a lot of inspiration from producers like Bruno Mars, Pharrell and ourselves and just tried to make something fresh.”
The nostalgic video was created using an analogue camera from the 1970s and is definitely filled with serotonin, immediately compelling you to dance along.
This is a strong follow-up to their last massive single Dancing in the Moonlight which was a remake of the 70s classic, and even smashed over 100 million streams on Spotify alone.
The band is made up of Sebastien Atas, who’s the primary producer and lead vocalist, and Victor Sjöström, who’s the key songwriter and instrumentalist.
CelebMix got the chance to chat to the boys all about Weekend Vibe, why they’ve hit the gym for a month straight, and what we can expect from JUBËL in 2021.
V: Hello! I’m good how are you?
S: We fine.
V: We were just in the studio fooling around having fun actually. Didn’t have any thought about what we were about to create, so we just played around on the guitar and Sebastian came up with the Weekend Vibe lyrics, and from that we just wrote the whole track like, in a day.
V: Well the music or the song itself has quite retro vibes to it, so we wanted that to like suit the track I guess. And it’s always fun to like experiment with different lenses and stuff on the camera, so we get a retro vibe on it.
S: It was actually recorded with an analogue camera from like the 70s.
V: The one with the film roll!
S: So like, some scenes in the music video didn’t make the cut!
S: I mean we always – it’s a bit different from Dancing in the Moonlight – but we always develop and we don’t want to copy ourselves. So, we just want to make new sounds and make things that haven’t been done before.
V: Eventually, it gets boring to just do the same thing over and over again.
S: Yeah, but if people listen to JUBËL, they can hear that there’s like a pattern with the guitars, and my vocals and the production so yeah. Hold on tight!
V: I mean, we always try to make hits but you can never expect when releasing a song…
S: You can only get a feeling in the studio. When we make something that we like, we get the “hit” vibe but, you never know. There’s so many things that need to be in place.
V: You never know.
V: That’s good!
V: I think his management were in contact with our label and they were discussing that he liked our version and he wanted to do a remix so, why not?
V: Yeah. Actually, we have a lot of tracks coming up which we are searching for or working with collaborations, and we like to mix it up so we could be with a rapper or anything that goes actually. Let’s wait and see.
V: Yeah but for us, we’ve just been sitting in the studio and me and Sebastian and two other guys here that we work with, and we’ve just been sitting in the studio focusing on our music so for us it hasn’t been harder.
S: No actually it’s been less fun.
V: Yeah because we can go out and play and find inspiration from that, but besides that, we’ve just been in the studio working.
S: I don’t feel like we have felt any depression or something because we love being in the studio so it’s easier for us!
V: Yeah exactly!
V: Well, we have a few gigs planned, we’ll see what happens when the summer comes. But, we just have to adapt and follow the news and see what happens. But we would love to come out and play if the situation allows us to. We’ll see; hopefully we can.
V: We know about that. We know about Creamfields. There’s a lot of festivals we’d love to play. All the big festivals book us now!
S: We want to go to like Coachella obviously!
V: That would be good.
S: But in the UK, we were on one festival one time called South West Four, in London.
V: That was cool.
V: Yeah!
S: I want to continue so I can get ripped for the summer! If we’re going to go to the UK, we need to look ripped because everyone there goes to the gym and looks the best they can.
V: We just, erm, a goal for 2021… we’re actually releasing an EP. It’s done now so that’s nice. We’re going to release that and hopefully we can reach number one in the UK again; that’s the main goal!
S: Of course; we’d love to!
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