Sondre Lerche continued his holiday tradition of covering a popular song of the year. This time, he went with Drake's "Hotline Bling" and briefly discussed his reasoning & process with Paper magaine:
""What the world needs now, is not yet another cover of 'Hotline Bling,' sweet lord. But there's no other huge song of 2015 I had wanted to sing more than Drake's irrational, wounded instant classic. So deal with it, and I'll at least spare you any further analysis, except to say it's a truly magnetic piece of music. My version was produced, recorded and mixed by Matias Tellez (Hotline Bling is one of his favorite songs of the year too) last night in Bergen, Norway in a mere 10 dark hours..."
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