MØ has had a busy past few years. With heavy touring, a debut EP and LP, and a collaboration with Diplo all acting as feathers in her proverbial cap, Karen Marie Ørsted is riding a wave of indie pop prominence and making the most of it. Now, if only we could pronounce her name…

“It’s only Danes who can say it right,” she told me during a chat before her performance at the Paradise on September 24. She expressed the sentiment that its pronunciation didn’t matter- in the age of the internet and its driving influence on how music is digested in 2014, how it reads is more important.

Ørsted has always stuck to this identity-based approach. After beginning her career in Denmark, it has been the proliferation of music through the internet that has helped her achieve fame across Europe first, and now stateside. While such a meteoric rise could have been overwhelming, the amount of poise that she exhibits is astonishing, and it was no more evident than when she absolutely lit up the Paradise with her fiery, slick pop. MØ opened up with “Maiden,” an apt choice, considering her moniker’s rough translation to the word.

“You want to communicate – you want people to feel the same feelings that you feel and in that way feel connected with people. It’s a way of feeling close at a bigger level at some point. It must means so much to me… It means everything to me,” she mused when reflecting on the rapidly spreading reaction to her music online. It was clear that she meant it as she couldn’t hold back a smile from the cheers after the first chorus.

MØ’s backing screen had a nonstop assortment of flashing images, using them to establish subliminal themes during songs. Among the list of things flashed on the screen, all in black and white to begin, were pianos, cars, telephone poles, violins, mountains, long stretches of empty road, leather jackets, ringing bells, and of course, Diplo’s name during the next song, “XXX 88”. The collaboration between the two artists is one of her more notable tracks, and the venue erupted as soon as the opening warble slid from the speakers. When asked about her dream collaboration after the success of the song, she gave no hesitation in dropping Kim Gordon’s name.