--- description: Hear an alternate mix of the haunting track, taken from the singer's recent LP 'No Mythologies to Follow' title: Mø "Maiden" Demo Version: Song Premiere image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbad63c93750247e5/6986a64513c79f635b1942b5/mo_thomas_skou.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Listen to the Demo Version of MØ's Slow Jam "Maiden": Song Premiere by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 1, 2014 2:37 PM CUT  Thomas Skou by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 1, 2014 2:37 PM CUT Danish electro-pop singer Karen Marie Ørsted, aka MØ, is on the brink of breaking big. Her cover of the Spice Girls’s [“Say You’ll Be There”](http://time.com/7267/mo-spice-girls-say-youll-be-there/ "undefined") ranks with the best and most transformative covers ever, while her ironically danceable “I Don’t Wanna Dance” is the perfect dancing-with-myself song choice. In short, it’s hard not to be a fan. Her debut album, _No Mythologies to Follow,_ hit stores in March and was filled with mature electro-pop tunes, including “Maiden,” a slow-burner jam destined to soundtrack a future film noire montage. Today, TIME premieres the demo version of that track — and it casts the song in entirely new light. Starting out with a mournful, gospel-inflected humming, this mix of “Maiden” is darkly haunting with gothic overtones. Expect to find it on many break-up playlists. Listen now: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3451059/mo-maiden-demo-version-mo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3451059/mo-maiden-demo-version-mo/"},"headline":"Listen to the Demo Version of MØ's Slow Jam \"Maiden\": Song Premiere","datePublished":"2014-10-01T14:37:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T07:56:36.516Z","description":"MØ's No Mythologies to Follow is in stores now","url":"https://time.com/3451059/mo-maiden-demo-version-mo/","keywords":["Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbad63c93750247e5/6986a64513c79f635b1942b5/mo_thomas_skou.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbad63c93750247e5/6986a64513c79f635b1942b5/mo_thomas_skou.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"MO_Thomas_Skou","caption":"","creditText":"Thomas Skou","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3451059/mo-maiden-demo-version-mo/","name":"Listen to the Demo Version of MØ's Slow Jam \"Maiden\": Song Premiere"}}]}] ```