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COY: Crush On You has been one song
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coyboyusa said on September 17, 2006 18:23:
i can’t help but feel too that once the idea of a tour for hand went belly up that emi lost interest in pushing the album beyond 2 singles....i also think they weren’;t too satisfied with the direction their videos went
LittleSpooky said on September 16, 2006 23:23:
I thought about saying something here... but decided against what I’m really thinking because LEO or Judith or Tev will slap me for it.
coyboyusa said on September 17, 2006 01:05:
firstly emi was the deciding force behind the singles from both cbb and hand...if you knweo anyhting about marketing and how record labels handle a release they generally do a small poll of advance listeners to gather what songs on an album will be commercially viable, 9 times out of ten these listening groups are not comprised of hardcore fans.
Take into account roxette has had much more success with their ballads as opposed to their uptempo tracks and there is your answer...every time you guys come here to trash per for this decision or that decision you don’t really seem to put much thought behind it.....per doesn’t run emi....and as long as things like the piracy that went on over the last week keep up emio are gonna put less and less behind roxette releases in the future if they feel they aren’t commercially viable so think about this next time you decide to blame per for what YOU deem as a bad decision...and no offense as an artits I wouldn’t want emi to have total control of my backcatalogue of material
goetz said on September 17, 2006 06:36:
Why do you think that per is too much into the music business??? Because he doesn‘t listen to the fans when it comes to single releases???
Maybe I´m a bit naiv, but I always thought the job of the single is to promote the album properly. So the single release is a pure business task for every artist. Why release a single for the fans who most likely are already aware of the Album and run the risk of not being recieved well by the larger audience???? One might say that the fans would have chosen more successful singles in the past (as it is always claimed in the case of COY). But then the fans are too much into the business and thinking about commercial success!
DEFAULT_GREEN said on September 18, 2006 06:12:
1. COY is on of the most talked about Rox Songs ever
2. COY was going to be a single
3. They went through all of the trouble to Remix the song
4. COY was the opening song for Roxettes’ last tour
5. COY is not in the ROX BOX
6. Confused?
7. Well you should be!!
tavo said on September 18, 2006 12:03:
another topic about coy, my favorite song. i don´t have anything to say, i just wanted to be “present” in this topic since i feel coy is part of me by now.
tavo said on September 18, 2006 12:09:
well, now i have something to say. remember something similar happened with the sixth single from the joyride album? it was going to be either do you get excited, from wich a video was shot, and we were given that, or knockin´ on every door, from which two remix versions (7” and 12”) were made, and we also got those. now, why can´t they just release the almighty remixes of coy? either as a b-side, a bonus track, a second edition of the bow, whatever. even as a single a-side. in the past they did that with “i want you”, that was a single and it was part of no album at all. what about xmas for the broken hearted? it was also a single taken from no album. only some years later it was included in a rox album. so why? will we always be waiting to listen to coy remixes? well, even if those remix versions suck, i definitely will.
bigbigbig_love said on September 18, 2006 12:44:
I have a Crush on You remix, found it ages ago, not sure who did it but its cool.
roxettevsoasis said on September 16, 2006 21:43:
that everyone has been basically complaining about, “Why wasn’t it released as a single” or “Where is the Remix of Crush On You?”. Is Per and Marie thinking that it wasn’t to their specifications as a “hit” single? He released “Real Sugar” which by far doesn’t come close to the catchiness that we well all know. I think Per (from what I’ve read) is too much into the music business. Does he even come in here and read what “his” fans are longing for? When I read that they were releasing the single C!B!B! (an article in Billboard) I was like what is he thinking or again, is it all to blame on Per or Every Mistake Imagineable? Come on Per, “don’t bore us, give us our “coy-us!”