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Marie's New Album
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ally77 said on April 5, 2006 19:13:
Okay so it’s not officially confirmed yet but I still thought it deserved a new thread so we could all get excited in one place about it....
I am so pleased if it’s true and fingers crossed EMI or Marie make it official soon!
A new Swedish Marie album would be way cool right now, just in time for and I am wondering what to expect on it...
I would like to see it a little like DSR as that was my fave Marie album...
As for Marie and promo, I think I’d better save for an unexpected trip to Sweden...
Bunio said on April 5, 2006 19:57:
i’m dissapointed :( 1 roxette song on it’s 20 anniversary compared to full solo album looks rather silly. so let’s cut the crap and face it: maybe marie is no longer interesed in roxette?
substitute said on April 5, 2006 23:33:
I love Roxette with al my heart but a brand new Marie’s solo albums it’s extremely great!!We know this could happen,a solo album before she comeback totally with Roxette.It’s just a solo album for swedish market only.ROXETTE is INTERNATIONAL.takes much time,you know...
Sparvogamarie said on April 6, 2006 04:22:
I think it’s very obvious that Marie is no longer interested in Roxette, but who the hell cares? We still get to enjoy both of them and I’m looking forward to her new album, too bad I won’t be in Sweden for it this time!
roxtexanet said on April 6, 2006 04:40:
I don’t think it’s that obvious at all that Marie isn’t interested in Roxette anymore... she appeared on stage with Per last Fall in the first official Roxette appearance since early 2003 when they accepted the King’s medals and I don’t think she would have done that (or said the things she said) if she didn’t have Roxette on her radar. There’s nothing at all stopping her from saying, “Nope, that’s it - I’m done with Roxette,” it’s not like she needs the money! Marie’s solo career has always co-existed with Roxette (perhaps moreso than Per’s even), it hasn’t been uncommon at all for Marie to release her solo records shortly before or after a Roxette project has finished up. Per seems quite content to work with Marie in whatever capacity she feels capable of working... I’m sure we’ll be seeing more of Roxette than many might think.
roxtexanet said on April 6, 2006 04:41:
As for the album, just no Micke songs this time, okay Marie? (-;
Breathe8 said on April 6, 2006 10:11:
I am looking forward to her album too!!! I like her solo songs in swedish. Never I thought that it will be so soon.
eBay said on April 6, 2006 10:30:
I would love to get all excited about the new solo release but I feel like I should be waiting for the management to confirm this and then I will celebrate.
I do not think that this is a sign of Marie not being interested in Roxette anymore at all. As stated above, Marie has always release solo albums. Before Roxette ever came to be and between each Roxette Album etc. Nothing unusual about this..
If Marie would not be interested in Roxette, I think she would not even go ahead and record something new.. I do think though that she is more interested and focussed on her solo stuff.. and that is totally okay with me.. Do what you enjoy the most and what you are best at! :-) We love you no matter what Marie!!! xxxxxxxxxx
RobS said on April 6, 2006 11:17:
Can’t wait for this!!
I think that if she didn’t want to continue with Roxette she would have said by now (or maybe she’s waiting till after the 20th??) but who knows, after getting back together with Per to record a few new songs her interest might be rekindled.
Either way new Rox material AND a Marie album!! Woohoo!!
ratpack said on April 6, 2006 13:35:
No Marie album!!!
Look this: http://www.mariefredriksson.blogspot.com
Arlanda said on April 6, 2006 13:54:
Maybe not no album just not in May... as Marie already mentioned that she’s working on it herself. :)
Sascha said on April 6, 2006 13:55:
ratpack, read again! The album IS coming, just the date and details aren’t fixed yet.
tevensso (moderator) said on April 6, 2006 14:05:
OK, to clear things up: TDR has NOT stated that there WILL be a new album. We have merely said that PER says so. My guess though is that there will be one.
Sascha said on April 6, 2006 14:44:
Marie said she’s working on one, Per said so, there shouldn’t be a question if an album is coming. Just the when and what and how...
eBay said on April 6, 2006 15:00:
As I said earlier.. Per didn’t say May 2006 did he? Maybe he was talking about 2007 or 2010?? ;-)
crashroxer said on April 6, 2006 17:36:
Did the newspaper said that Marie will release a new album? Or Per himself?
Jud (moderator) said on April 6, 2006 18:35:
Nobody said (yet) that there is no album at all, the management says that there is nothing final, meaning that it is not confirmed the album is out in May. And we didn’t confirm that there IS one out in May. Marie herself said in Oct/Nov she is working on an album, she even said it might be out before/in Summer, Per commented on that to the Spanish news agency, and they wrote what he said.
We’ll just have to wait and see :)
ThePopHits said on April 6, 2006 19:59:
ha ha it was just a rumour or joke or smth.
Roxette back! No more solo albums!!
roxtexanet said on April 6, 2006 22:36:
@ThePopHits: You can’t be serious, right? The only thing different from today and yesterday is that we aren’t getting confirmation on the date from management... there’s still going to be an album AND it could still come in May! D&D isn’t saying, probably because EMI hasn’t finalized its release schedule yet...
Sparvogamarie said on April 8, 2006 07:48:
We already knew MF was working on a new album, maybe Per jumped the gun a little by saying May (but as Roxfans we already know that May always means November and 2006 means 2008). At least it seems that there will be a new Marie album within a year.
Does anyone think she’ll actually promote it? She hardly did a thing for The Change, though of course now she’s much healthier...but still I get the feeling that interviews and promotion are not high on the list of things she wants to do?
roxtexanet said on April 8, 2006 13:57:
I don’t think she’ll do a whole lot of promo, maybe a few interviews here and there, but I can’t see her doing much more than what she did for the art exhibition. But I guess we’ll just have to cross our fingers and hope for some TV performances!
ally77 said on April 8, 2006 16:27:
Maybe her bank balance is getting low, so she decided to release an album...
Okay you can all shoot me at once!
sweepi said on April 9, 2006 18:34:
1st thing to say: I personally dislike seeing Roxette being looked at from a “Per vs Marie dispute” perspective.
2nd thing to say: I personally dislike even more to take part in any kind of polemic.
That said, I still have to say that, for as hard as I try, I somehow fail to understand the criteria for such an assumption as that Marie presently lacks interest in Roxette.
When Per decided to release internationally a solo album in the same year as that of Roxette’s 20 years anniversary, I don’t recall any kind of complaint about it. And when Per, as just recently being asked what he misses accomplishing with Roxette, answered - “no, nothing really”, I don’t recall either any kind of reaction.
Why then for any kind of complaint, in the case, if so, of Marie deciding to release domestically a solo album in the same year as that of Roxette’s 20 years anniversary? And why then for any kind of reaction, after Per having being quoted by a foreign news agency as to have said that Marie - “doesn’t want to work too much”?
I do indeed fail to understand the criteria for such assumptions to be made (as I fail to understand the duality in the fans judging)...
Debora said on April 9, 2006 20:30:
@sweepi: I agree with you...
But, in any case, if there will be a new album by Marie, I’m happy to know it, but, on the other hand, i’m sure that it won’t be released in Argentina, as usual.
Arlanda said on April 5, 2006 19:36:
Ja, I so hope we can read a press release from EMI soon! :D