MØ on Vulnerability, Political Activism, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs

I was nineteen when I first heard MØ’s “Waste of Time,” its thumping bass, liquid guitar riffs, and towering vocals frenetically soothing my young broken heart. “Lean On,” her relentlessly catchy, record-shattering track with Major Lazer, pulsed over the New York airwaves seemingly every twenty minutes as I drove beachside, windows down with my best friends in 2015.