Pigeon Spins Featuring an Interview with Lennart Jönsson

Lennart Jönsson feat. Josh St Germain, David Kroon, Eric Eklund - Cure Your Fear  

With over 40 years of experience performing in various cover bands, Lennart Jönsson has built a deep and versatile foundation in music — from classic rockfolk, to blues, and beyond. After decades on stage, he transitioned into music production, spending the last 10 years mastering Logic Pro and honing his craft in recording, composing, arranging, and sound design.

For the past two years, Lennart Jönsson has focused on composing, producing, and collaborating with artists across Sweden and the United States, blending his live performance roots with modern production techniques. His music reflects both experience and curiosity — a blend of classic musicianship and contemporary creativity.

Cure Your Fear grew out of a long-standing spiral of frustration with—not only—Swedish journalism’s blind spots, biases, fear-mongering tendencies, and click-chasing frenzy.

Two examples among many inspired the song. The late Professor Hans Rosling’s final book, Factfulness (2018)—and the Swedish media outlet Kvartal.se—have both provided us with plenty of dry wood for this crackling fire.

As Rosling points out: It's about seeing the world as it truly is—not as we’re scared into believing it is, often accompanied by generous doses of fear, anxiety, and drama from the media. And, as Factfulness so clearly demonstrates: news can, in fact, be positive—and still, by a wide margin, qualify as actual news. Woohoo!

Moreover, it turns out we media consumers actually can think for ourselves. Shocking, yeah, I know. But maybe that’s a bit too complex a concept for certain news editors – you know, the ones with their noses permanently lodged above the clouds, endlessly chasing the next quirky, next shiny, next here-today-gone-by-lunch headline.

After every new journalistic scandal, yet another cork—among many others—bobs to the surface in the inlets of memory. Each one carrying a long-awaited demand: to address the imbalance between the media's vast power and their minimal accountability!

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Interview with Lennart Jönsson

(º)> What’s the single biggest fear you’re trying to cure with your music or your message?

The fear journalists experience when executing good journalism. Instead, they are going bananas, hitting easy clickbait.

(º)> If Swedish journalism were a song, what genre would it be and why?

Trash metal, due to the flood of frustration it causes.

(º)> How do you translate the Factfulness mindset into sound?

Clarity, balance, competence, and integrity.

(º)> When did frustration with the media turn into fuel for creativity instead of just anger?

Sad to say, in my case, after approximately 40 years.

(º)> Do people actually want truthful news, or do they secretly crave the fear and spectacle?

People want solid news, ie, giving us news consumers a foundation for democratic decisions.

(º)> What’s one “clickbait headline” you’d love to rewrite into a song title?

Zelenskyj: We don't get Tomahawk robots.

Rewritten: Long-distance precision strike!

(º)> After 40 years of live music, what made you pivot to producing, and what did you have to unlearn?

A hearing impairment made me move into the home studio. And, most importantly, I unlearned that I was unable to write my own songs.

(º)> How do you keep your music grounded in authenticity when modern production can make anything sound perfect?

I ground myself in 74 years of life experience, securing authenticity and giving myself validation.

(º)> What’s the one quality you look for in a creative partner?

Open mind and integrity.

(º)> If Cure Your Fear had a closing line or mantra, what would it be?

Let's address the imbalance between the media's vast power and their minimal accountability!

(•)> That's all Folks! Check out Cure Your Fear on the Pigeon Spins Playlist