Metteson: the Norwegian theatre kid embracing pop, pleasure and pain

Sverre Breivik took a lead in Angels in America while crafting masterfully melodramatic music, and this omnivorous new talent is now set on creating the perfect gig

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 Sande 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."