To mark the release of their first collab track, 'Superlim & silvertejp', Swedish pop stars Molly Sandén and Miriam Bryant dive deep into the ups and downs of their (sometimes complicated, always charming) friendship
Over 15 years of friendship, Swedish pop stars Molly Sandén and Miriam Bryant have been through it. There was the time Bryant “kind of hooked up” (her words) with Sandén’s ex. Then there was that other time when both of them had a thing for the same guy. “I didn’t know they had hooked up,” says Bryant. “Yes you did,” insists Sandén, who herself had the dalliance with the guy in question whilst “on a break” from a relationship with someone else. There were the times they were up for the same awards, the times they battled it out on the charts. Incredibly, through some of the most tumultuous periods, they both saw the same therapist. “That must have been so much fun for her,” says Bryant, with a chuckle.
There have been plenty of good moments, too. Sipping champagne at the Ivy in Los Angeles, the city where their friendship crystallised into something significant. Nights out that bled into early mornings. Shared hotel rooms and borrowed clothes. Deep chats and cathartic tears. Sandén naming Bryant the godmother of her child. Theirs is a relationship so close the Swedish tabloids have sometimes wondered if they were more than friends. “Why are people so obsessed with us being lesbians?” Bryant muses.
Photo: Trevor Roberts
Photo: Trevor Roberts