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Lyrics of the Heart: How many of us...
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roxettevsoasis said on September 6, 2006 20:16:
Fans after discovering Roxette music had actually began writing their own lyrics. Mine is a typical Roxette story. I found in my sisters bedroom the cassette tape of “Look Sharp!” It took a while before I could get past “The Look” because it was so damn catchy. After that it was total dedication to this band. I never ever read about 2 singers being in a band. I thought that was something special. Both great performers and internationally known. You know it was “fate” when that foreign exchange student brought their cd over to America and the rest is history. But getting back to influences, I was on top of my parents roof in September of 1993 and it was a gorgeous day, blue sky and birds just chirping this beautiful tune (I know sounds strange!) and I got down went to a drawer with paper and pens and went right back up and wrote my first lyric/song. In any event, I didn’t clean the gutters the rest of the afternoon and wrote my first song: Feelin’ So Good (On Top Of The Roof!) It’s an uptempo song. Ever since then I’ve been writing lyrics and making my own music. But enough about my story, what about you guys and gals?....
ally77 said on September 7, 2006 05:42:
I did write one song many years ago..... based around Roxette! I do still have it somewhere!
bevi said on September 7, 2006 07:26:
after knowing Roxette i started to write my own lyrics, i have few of them. One of them is quite curious cos i started it few years ago but wasn´t really happy with the lyrics, then after Roxette´s concert in Madrid in 2001 the words just came to my head alone. so the song has take years to be finished!! Is called: “Tonight under this light (you look like angels)”, is a ballad and...yes, my inspiration was Per
carlosconnelli said on September 7, 2006 08:51:
i remember a few years ago, that when per released twatg there was a competition or something in the fanclub. anyways i wrote a song called the world according to gessle, but never sent it in. i think my friend had a copy, just dont think i have any contact to her!
Santi said on September 7, 2006 22:52:
I’ve also written lyrics, and the inspiration to play music again came both from Roxette and later from Oasis, the britpop band.
I played music as a child, and my toy keyboard was my best friend for some years :D It was really great, I loved it. But then, when I came back home with my parents (after being living with my aunt for some time), they started complaining I was noisy...
That was around 1992 so I knew all these It Must Have Been Love and The Look, and Joyride... and if you asked me my fav song I’d say The Look, but Roxette weren’t my fav band. I was very much into Mike Oldfield’s instrumental music and I really wanted to play it all like he does :D
So when we moved I found at the new house a guitar and that made it possible to try that out... and it seemed quite easy :P
It wasn’t until 1996 that I started playing again (I quitted playing when they told me I was noisy), after buying the GH of Roxette, that had all this tunes that I really liked, especially June Afternoon, I love that one.
But so many ballads depressed me, so I was never very much into Roxette for my mind’s sake :S And I had also these Oasis guys’ CD.
So those were my influences, the first lyrics I wrote I did for a girl and my impossible love story with her, and were called “Dazzled”. It’s an uptempo number that could fit in the Tourism CD, since may not be that great but sounds Roxettish :D
Soon thereafter I adapted the lyrics of Listen to Your Heart into Catalan (“Escolta el teu cor”), which I’m very proud they were ready before Baladas en Español came out and it’s such a nice well adapted nearly word-by-word lyric, compared to the junk of Mr. Escolar :P
I quitted writing lyrics because Dazzled was very personal and I felt very embarrased singing it, and since then I’ve written only pieces of lyrics and 2 complete ones in English (“All thru the night” and “Every Little Thing”) and in some other languages (Italian and Catalan). Because of being personal, I never ever write lyrics in my language, Spanish.
But I go on writing music, that is my thing... someone will make the lyrics, or not! :D
Sorry for making such a long boring post
IV_ROX said on September 8, 2006 15:56:
Count me in! My first song(in English, dates back to 1994) was even called ” Look Out!” Come and tell me I wasn’t inspired by Rox! And what’s funny is that 3 years later I found out that Tears Of Pearls by Savage Garden has almost identical melody in the verses. Therefore, SG were also inspired by Roxette LOL If only Darren sees this he’s going to damn me! :P
http://www.soundclick.com/ivroxx
Edit: the link above
n-Somnia said on September 6, 2006 22:12:
I’m on this list. :)
For me it was on a compilation album my mother had on cassette (which has until a few years ago been chewed up by my stereo - overplay syndrome, perhaps?), called The Love Connection * . The song was IMHBL, and I couldn’t stop listening to it.
Finally later that year, I got Tourism for Christmas, which got lots more airplay on my old tape deck. Sometime after this I got Look Sharp! on cassette (therefore, I hadn’t heard [ICN]GYU by this time), followed by Joyride. After which I got C!B!B! as my first actual Roxette CD (I replaced my cassettes with CDs afterwards - they were getting worn anyway, hehe), then a year later I got DBU-GTTC!
But anyway, this is about me writing my own stuff! As you’ve probably figured out, it was about 1994/95 when it first happened. I decided to answer an advertisement in one of my high school’s daily notices, about free guitar lessons. Being a huge Per fan, I went along at the moment I could. ;)
It wasn’t even a year later when my first collection of song titles appeared though. Not long after this, my first lyrics came to me. The tune I had in my head at the time was sort of a cross between Cinnamon Street and Almost Unreal. So it was very Rox-inspired, to say the least.
I’m still writing to this day (making it my 11th year), and I’m planning on working on (and in some cases “re-working”) the old songs from way back. You all may get to hear them someday! ;)
P.S. I hope to do a few Rox covers as well. My aim is to have 1 or 2 on the Fanism site someday. :)
* For those who like coincidental facts, the compilation album had Heart on it as well. In fact, their song (All I Want to Do is Make Love to You) was the one before IMHBL.