Reykjavík Grapevine - 25.08.2017, Qupperneq 39

she’s into is unusual, unpredictable,
and fascinating. “I love the Power-
puff Girls. I am totally a Buttercup
so she’s been a huge inspiration
to me. I even have collectibles of
them.” She laughs before pausing.
“David Lynch too. Also Junji Ito. He’s
a manga artist whose work is dark
and fucked up, but in a good way.
His stuff makes you think, which is
what I want to do.”
The exodus of an artist
Ito’s aesthetic is easily seen in
her music. Take her song, ‘Kvalin’:
“‘The lyrics are really dark. It’s about
all the violence I’ve been through.
But at the same time, the song is so
turnt.” It’s true—in concert this is
one of the tracks everyone goes cra-
zy for. “So, it feels empowering and
I don’t feel sad when I rap it, even
though the lyrics are kind of fucked
up, which is really amazing.”
Dýrfinna touches on dark topics
in an honest way. “I think it’s OK,
it’s not lame to talk about your feel-
ings and what you’ve been through.
Depression, stuff like that, they’re
always looked away from and peo-
ple say, ‘Oh, that’s too much. You’re
telling too much.’ but I think peo-
ple should be able to
express themselves.”
She shrugs. “Rap is
poetry. It’s art.”
Dýrfinna is cur-
rently doing a video
course in Amster-
dam, but she also
has a background
in drawing, paint-
ing, graffiti, and
poetry. “In general,
I feel like my work
is honest and vio-
lent. I don’t want to
put too many labels
on it, but that’s how
I would start.” She started rapping
around two years ago and dropped
her first song, ‘Goth Bitch’ a year
ago. It’s a freaky song, complete
with a freaky video—horror music
in the vein of ‘Get Your Gunn’ by
Marilyn Manson, but definitely not
Insane Clown Posse. It’s also a total
180° from anything else in the Ice-
landic hip hop community.
“Everyone does different stuff
here, but we all want to collab with
each other. I just
did a song with Cy-
ber and one with
Geisha Cartel and
I’m going to do
more. Ent er i n g
the Reykjavík rap
scene has been re-
ally cool. I’m really
happy that I get to
be a part of some-
thing so amazing.”
While for now, the
Countess says she’s
doing darker stuff,
she would also love
to explore more
psychotically happy stuff or plain
old pop. “At the base though, I’m
really dark. I like dark gory movies
and dark music, and I have a dark
life.” She smiles—a dark smile.
“Everything is dark really.”
Music 39 The Reykjavík GrapevineIssue 15 — 2017
“I’m really
dark. I like
dark gory
movies and
dark music,
and I have a
dark life.”

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