Monica Birkenes, also known as Mr Little Jeans, is an up-and-coming force to be reckoned with. Although the moniker may connote fragility, it really reflects a more playful and dark side of the artist. It is borrowed from one of the characters in Wes Anderson’s flick, Rushmore, in which the main character falls in love with a teacher and battles to win her love throughout the movie.
As a Norwegian solo artist who writes her own songs, she has already contributed a full-length album, Pocketknife, to the indie pop world. Its debut track, “Good Mistake,” is a ballad entrenched in personal meaning for the young artist. It is about a trucker who must travel down the road of his past mistakes and learn to free himself from them; she told NPR Music she wrote the track from a perspective of making a lot of her own mistakes. The music itself seems to fit in with her style of laying reverberating synths over textured percussion with powerful and feminine vocals.