Europe was way ahead of the United States with Alice Merton: Her 2016 single “No Roots” made it to number two on the German charts in 2017 and charted all over the continent—including in France, Italy, Belgium, and Poland—before finally hitting the American market hard last year. If you’ve heard the song’s opening riff and percussive chorus, you know why the Germans call it an Ohrwurm: “I’ve got no roots / But my home was never on the ground.” Merton says she wrote “No Roots” while visiting her parents in England and realizing she didn’t feel at home anywhere.…
Europe was way ahead of the United States with Alice Merton: Her 2016 single “No Roots” made it to number two on the German charts in 2017 and charted all over the continent—including in France, Italy, Belgium, and Poland—before finally hitting the American market hard last year. If you’ve heard the song’s opening riff and percussive chorus, you know why the Germans call it an Ohrwurm: “I’ve got no roots / But my home was never on the ground.” Merton says she wrote “No Roots” while visiting her parents in England and realizing she didn’t feel at home anywhere.…