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When Norwegian pop star Metteson was 18, he had an experience at a festival that made him understand the visceral impact
music can have. While Emeli Sandé was performing Heaven, he kissed the boy he’d had a crush on for ages.
“I wasn’t on drugs but I was as high as I’ve ever been and I had what was sort of my first sexual experience,” he says. “But the day after, I got brutally dumped when he told me that he was in love with someone else. The picture of the night before exploded and cracked.”