The mystery behind Avicii Enough Is Enough outlasted most pop careers. For 15 years, dance fans traded bootlegs of a soaring, never released track and argued over one question: who was the woman singing it? This week the answer finally arrived, and it came from the singer herself. Her name is Jenny Lindfors, an Irish-Swedish songwriter based in London, and for most of those 15 years she had no idea her voice was echoing across festival fields.
A 15-year mystery on the dancefloor
The song has gone by two names in fan circles, “Enough Is Enough” and “Let Me Show You Love.” Avicii recorded it in 2011 but never put it out officially. After his death in 2018, the track took on an almost mythical status. Rips uploaded to YouTube and SoundCloud collected tens of millions of plays, and Lindfors later learned it was one of Tim Bergling’s personal favorites, a record he liked to open his shows with.
For years, the internet guessed at the voice. Names like Yolanda Selini and Amy Pearson circulated across Reddit threads and fan forums. None of it reached Lindfors, who was busy building a very different career far from the main stage.
How Avicii Enough Is Enough was recorded
The session happened in the spring of 2011, and it came through Hal Ritson, a Grammy-nominated British producer who runs the London company Replay Heaven. Ritson specializes in interpolations and sample replays, the precise re-recordings that let producers sidestep the cost and red tape of clearing original masters. He had already booked Lindfors for several jobs, including replays of Sia’s “Drink to Get Drunk” and Madonna’s “Ray of Light” for the Dutch label Spinnin’ Records.
Known in that world as a sharp vocal mimic, Lindfors says Ritson asked her to sing in the style of Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine. She was paid her usual session rate and signed a contract that asked only for an alias if the recording ever came out. The name on that contract, she now realizes, was Avicii. In its report, EDM.com says it reviewed the paperwork, which lists Lindfors and Ritson as the vocalists on a song “provisionally entitled ‘Let Me Show You Love’ by the artist Avicii,” alongside an invoice dated May 2011. The session, she adds, was brokered by Bergling’s manager Arash Pournouri, known in the studio simply as “Ash.”
Why her name vanished for so long
The contract is the reason her voice could travel so far without her. A standard clause waived her moral rights, giving the client freedom to edit, alter and remix the recording at will. That is how her original vocal was lifted out of the arrangement she sang to and dropped onto a brand new Avicii instrumental, the euphoric version that would go on to fill arenas.
Because the track was never officially released, there was no credits page to point to and no clear route to correct the record. Lindfors was also an acoustic artist trying to carve out her own identity, and the neon world of EDM felt like a different planet. The clue that finally cracked it was almost absurd: a friend sitting by a hotel pool in Malta heard the song drift over from the bar, recognized the voice, and texted to ask if she had ever sung a line about “enough is enough.” Lindfors confirmed she had. She was, in her own words to EDM.com, “quite flabbergasted.”
The NERVO connection and a possible release
Lindfors is not the only artist tangled in the song’s history. The Australian duo NERVO co-wrote its original melody, and a resurfaced clip of Avicii and NERVO dropping the track at Tomorrowland in 2011 helped reignite fan interest. In 2021, Liv Nervo said Bergling’s estate declined to clear his contributions, which pushed the sisters toward a remake rather than a release of the version fans actually fell for. So far the estate has not announced any official release, a familiar story for anyone following the long wait around Avicii’s legendary 2011 IDs. The track’s pull has not faded either, as the ongoing Avicii Tribute Experience at Tomorrowland keeps proving.
Who is Jenny Lindfors
Today Lindfors records as Sailing Stones, making self-produced indie folk a long way from the festival circuit. Her music has earned regular airplay on BBC Radio 6 Music, and her debut album Polymnia arrived in 2020. Her second album, Slow Magic, is out on July 3 and maps the emotional spectrum of motherhood, with each song tied to a color. The first single, “A Promise to Love,” was written during a workshop led by Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes. Between her own releases she still takes session and backing vocal work, the same craft that put her on an Avicii record in the first place.
After all this time, she is content to let the credits land where they may, as long as one fact is clear. “These people may all be involved in different capacities,” she told EDM.com, “but the vocal that’s out there is definitely me.” Fifteen years on, one of dance music’s most recognizable unreleased vocals finally has a name.