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POP SONG REVIEW: “7 Years” by Lukas Graham

Todd in the Shadows | January 11, 2026



There is something rotten in the state of Denmark.

Written by Todd in the Shadows

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  2. @CharlieVanbeek

    January 11, 2026 at 9:02 pm

    Obviously Todd doesnt know what its like to grow up in a small european town because the amount of people i know who DID grow up like mentioned 9 minutes in… would shell shock him

  5. @blakeschwab7518

    January 11, 2026 at 9:02 pm

    It’s not that crazy to start drinking and smoking at 11, I was in sixth grade when I started. Don’t get me wrong it wasn’t anywhere near a regular basis but it does happen that early more often than most people would expect. Good review, this song is god awful.

  11. @jonathancederlund1985

    January 11, 2026 at 9:02 pm

    I don't think I have really come across a review of this song by someone who didn't bother to look up Lukas' (the singer) background at all. Which, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you have to to talk about the music. But it IS weird continuously calling him a liar on things he casually talked about and explained in interviews, that were true of where and how he grew up. Like, you don't think people have asked him about these lyrics lol? It all reads very "for me, this could never happen, so how could it be possible in a country I know nothing about" American :'D

  15. @AdamDeLand

    January 11, 2026 at 9:02 pm

    "You named the band after yourself, why would you even do that? You're already the goddamn frontman!"

    Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson: sweating nervously

  18. @lotty3k

    January 11, 2026 at 9:02 pm

    I hate this song with every fibre of my being. He can't even sing! He sing talks, then sing shouts! It's the most worthless song under a vaneer of 'meaningful' I've ever heard. If this song has no haters, then I am dead

  20. @VK-rl6wl

    January 11, 2026 at 9:02 pm

    Not to come to Lukas defense or anything but the place he grew up in is indeed very particular. Christiania was occupied by 68-anarchist ideologies who were eager to found a utopian society within Denmark. I grew up in a place not unlike this in Europe and it is a particular vibe. Unlike American hippies who were all about self-Experience, these European communists were very serious about transforming the world. They were mostly traumatized by overly authoritarian parents and held on to the belief that children were „little adults“ who don’t need to be taught anything but know best by themselves. Idk about that even in a utopian society but the even worse thing about creating quasi-lawless places within a capitalist economy is that these places get overrun by outlaws, drug-traffickers and worse. And these were the people our parents let us hang around an play with when we were children. The stories I have to tell mostly sound unbelievable to people who spent their teens bored to death in suburbia, but yes I absolutely believe Lukas was drinking and smoking by the age of seven.
    I was thirteen when I had my first boyfriend, my parents didn’t care if I slept home or not. In the beginning I still went home but I stopped doing that because the bus driver was chugging bottles of pure vodka. Also my parents never met any of my boyfriends, or knew where I was at night. I didn’t realize that was not normal till I moved to university and my new colleagues all did things „for the first time“ that were old and fairly standard to me. Looking back I have no idea how I’m not dead, well some of my friends died, mostly because of drunk driving. We don’t really stay in touch or talk much about our childhood. It is the kind of place that would make helicopter parents lock their kids in the basements and absolutely produce the sort of broken people who need that Popstar level of validation or think they’re special for growing up unsupervised. I needed a lot of therapy that’s for sure but it also made me really wavy with dangerous situations, which isn’t really all that useful since I think I’ve never been in that sort of danger that you’re in as a child that’s alone around adults, but yeah.

  24. @adryandavis2835

    January 11, 2026 at 9:02 pm

    I never really cared about this song when I was young and I now at 18 I still do not care about this song, then and now I consider this background music when you turn on the radio in when your driving.

  27. @TheCheemstar

    January 11, 2026 at 9:02 pm

    Smoking and drinking at 11 isn’t that crazy in some communities. I started at 13, knew a few people at my school who had already been taking pills for a couple years at that point, this was in Portland Oregon 10 years ago

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