Greta Thunberg: Two minutes of pure joie de vivre in Stockholm

Climate protection concert in Stockholm
Greta, the way she sings and dances: We haven’t known the climate activist like this before

Together with a young climate activist, Greta Thunberg sings “Never gonna give you up” by Rick Astley.

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It’s two minutes of pure joie de vivre: At a kimak concert in Stockholm, Greta Thunberg delivered a boisterous performance of Rick Astley’s “Never gonna give you up”. He then spoke up.

She stands there like a pop star. The audience claps and hoots. Calls her name. “Greta, Greta”. Again and again. She makes it happen, seems to be enjoying it. Then she takes the microphone and says in the best English: “We are no strangers to love”. Then a young man in dark blue overalls and a yellow hoodie enters the stage and shouts: “You know the rules, and so do I”.

Greta Thunberg sings and dances

And then it starts: music is played from the tape and the two of them sing together “Never gonna give you up”, Rick Astley’s super hit from the 80s. In the 60 seconds that follow, we see the 18-year-old dancing to the music. Greta Thunberg seems happy and free. It is the greatest possible contrast to the image that the public should have had of the young Swede so far: that of a serious young woman who seems to be carrying the burden of the world on her shoulders and who is suffering severely from the climate catastrophe.

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Her newly exhibited joie de vivre is not at the expense of her commitment to “Fridays for Future”: the scene outlined above came about as part of a climate protection concert in Stockholm. The concert was one of 45 “Climate live” events that took place around the world.

Greta caused a sensation with her great performance: none other than Rick Astley himself spoke up on Sunday evening via Twitter and congratulated the 18-year-old on her performance: “Fantastic” he commented, and he thanked Thunberg in her mother tongue.

As the Swedish daily “Aftonbladet” reports, this was the first time that Greta sang in public. Why she decided to do so, she explained to the paper as follows: “We are ultimately just teenagers who fool around with each other, not just the angry children that the media often portray us as.”

The young climate activist could not have portrayed it better than with this short dance and singing interlude: Greta Thunberg is also just a young person who loves life, who wants to celebrate and have fun. That is precisely why – and that is the point of this performance – climate protection is so important.

Source used: Youtube, “Aftonbladet”, Twitter

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