Caroline Hjelt (born 8 November 1987, of a Swedish mother and Sweden-Finnish father[9]) and Aino Jawo (born 7 July 1986, of a Finnish mother and Gambian father[10]) attended the same music school in Stockholm,[11] but met by chance at a party in February 2009 and formed the duo.

[12] The English-language press, including NME, The Guardian, Rolling Stone and Pitchfork Media, have praised the duo.

[16] The duo have worked in the studio with producers including Style of Eye, Patrik Berger (Robyn), Elof Loelv (Niki & The Dove) and Starsmith.

The song, which features vocals from British recording artist Charli XCX, was also featured in the 2012 video game Need for Speed: Most Wanted, in a German television commercial for Coca-Cola Light in January 2013,[18] the theme song to the MTV reality-television series Snooki & JWoww, and in an episode of the HBO comedy-drama television series Girls and the popular vampire-teen drama television series The Vampire Diaries.

In January 2013, "I Love It" was featured in the third episode of the second season of Girls, the comedy-drama series created by Lena Dunham.

On 19 May 2013, the duo performed "I Love It" at the Billboard Music Awards, wearing custom lit outfits by designer Geoffrey Mac.

[25][26] In the same period, the duo also performed as the opening act for Katy Perry and Miley Cyrus tours.

They also collaborated with Tiesto for the song "Let's Go" and with Cobra Starship for the single "Never Been in Love"[27] which became a successful hit in Italy.

[citation needed] The duo was announced as an opening act for the North American leg of One Direction's "On the Road Again" tour in 2015.

[citation needed] In October 2017, they released a song with Australian duo Peking Duk called "Let You Down".

[32] In late December 2017, the duo released an EP called "Så mycket bättre 2017 – Tolkningarna" including 7 covered songs.

[citation needed] In early March 2018, the duo collaborated with Avon on a music video called "All My Girls".