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StupidGirl said on August 16, 2002 22:13:
Do you think you’ll love Roxette forever? You might be wrong.
When I heard WICF for the first time I fell in love with the song and later with the band. I knew I wouldn’t love them forever because I knew myself. I’m a person who gets bored of something pretty fast. Though I still couldn’t imagine that I wouldn’t love Roxette anymore one day.
I bought every album I could get and most of the singles. Then I went on to the Rox related stuff like Gyllene Tider and the solo stuff. After one and half a year only I had over 50 CDs by Roxette & related projects. But it still wasn’t enough. I started to try out other swedish bands. Some who are signed by Jimmy Fun and some others. I really liked Brainpool. At the same time I bought some Wannadies stuff and loved it too. Then some Brainpool fans told me to listen to Kent. Another great band. And so I started to listen to more and more bands that weren’t related to Roxette that much. Another reason were maybe the music magazines. Even during my Roxette fan period I started to read german and english music mags. They don’t write about Roxette very much and if they do, it’s usually nothing nice. Not that it would really matter to me if they write nice things about my fave bands... but of course I got interested in the bands they liked. Some of those mags come along with CDs so I got to listen to new bands. And after a while I found myself listening to anything but Roxette.
StupidGirl said on August 16, 2002 22:33:
When I felt that I wasn’t a Roxette fan any longer I was kind of sad. It had been a great time. I had met nice people, other Roxette fans. And it’s a great feeling if you love a band as much as I loved Roxette. They feeling you have when you listen to any song of them. I just needed to voice of Per or Marie and I liked the song. I had downloaded tons of songs I couldn’t get on CD. Old demos and that stuff. I liked everything. Some more and some less, but I liked them. I couldn’t wait for their new album to come out. Although when Room Service actually came out, I wasn’t interested in it anymore (I bought it just because I had waited it for so long). Sometimes I miss this now. This excitement, the waiting for a new album, the looking for any song the band has ever recorded.
StupidGirl said on August 16, 2002 22:37:
I still have favorite bands. But there isn’t one that I adore like I adored Roxette. There are many that I like and find great, but I don’t have 50 CDs by any other bands. I got most of the Pixies stuff - but no bootlegs and not the live album. I got a pile of Blur albums - because I could get them 2nd hand. I’ve got every album Ladytron have made - one so far. I have all the Wannadies albums - not the singles. You get the idea. So sometimes I miss the old feeling, I don’t miss Roxette, just the feeling they gave me. I used to go crazy when they played a song of theirs on the radio. Now I often change the station.
StupidGirl said on August 16, 2002 22:50:
Roxette belong to my past now. I’m glad they were there, but it could have been any other band, too. I’m never gonna be a fan of any band like I was fan of Roxette. But I still can understand fans in way. Especially if it comes to reviews that you don’t like. But I’m on the critics side nowadays. I’m a critic myself. I write for a (small) online mag. As a fan you’re waiting for an album for years sometimes and you know you’re gonna like it whatever it sounds like. Just because it’s your fave band. Your CD collection looks like this (mine used to, at least): 50 CDs by Roxette & related, maybe 30 or 40 by some other artists. Garbage, A-ha, Bon Jovi... whatever. (I’ve always hated Bon Jovi, though). As a critic you get lots of free CDs, every week. Of course you don’t like every single one. You get stuff you didn’t really want. In your CD collection there are over thousands of different artists. Roxette is one of them.
StupidGirl said on August 16, 2002 22:51:
Oh god! That’s pretty long now. Does anyone feel like reading?
StupidGirl said on August 16, 2002 22:57:
I’ll go on anyway...
Of course you can accuse me now and tell me I’ve never been a real Roxette fan. But believe me, I was. I spent all my money on CDs and other Rox stuff. I used to surf around and try to find every single bit that has ever been written about them. I used to chat with other Roxette fan. I was like one of you. But I changed. All I want to say that it can happen to you, too. If you’d told me that I would write anything like this here two years ago I would have called you a liar.
StupidGirl said on August 16, 2002 23:02:
It’s getting late now and I’m going to leave. But I’ll come back to see whether anyone has reacted to this. Maybe I’ll even write some more. I don’t really know why I wrote it. Actually I hate writing.
I hope I didn’t bore you too much.
annaG said on August 18, 2002 13:43:
@ ferdan: LOL!
@ stupid girl: sorry dont get your point! of course you can change and not be a roxer anymore, but what the HELL are you doing here then and what are you trying to say???!!!
CRIZ said on August 18, 2002 16:21:
Well you haven’t been a “fan” for a long time!
Do what you like. Love them or leave them!
Who cares?
Nefatari said on August 18, 2002 18:30:
Things can change, and things can change back .. if you understand what I mean!
Maybe one day, when you feel sad and alone, and you suddenly hear a Rox-song, you can remember the feeling you’ve had as a Roxfan, and you want to keep the feeling inside, and you start to listen and love Roxette again .. could happen to you!
Anyway if it happens or not, you should live your life the way you want to and need to to be happy and satisfied, with or without Roxette!
By the way: I really love Roxette with no doubt, but I also listen to lot of other bands, totally different kind of music! And I love Brainpool, Kent, The Pixies ... but never the way I love Roxette!!
StupidGirl said on August 18, 2002 20:10:
@Ferdan: so now I’m stupid, only because I don’t like Roxette anymore? Your way of thinking is a bit too simple.
StupidGirl said on August 18, 2002 20:20:
@AnnaG: What am I doing here? Good question actually. I guess I’m just being nostalgic. I used to be here quite a lot during my Roxette fan days. Sometimes I come back to see how the people are, what they’re talking about and what Roxette are doing. My fave forum now’s at www.intro.de...
StupidGirl said on August 18, 2002 20:26:
@CRIZ: I was a fan for one and half a year only. Maybe a bit more... I didn’t stop being a fan on just one day. But what you really want to say is that I wasn’t a real fan because I stopped loving them after so little time. Right?
StupidGirl said on August 18, 2002 20:28:
@Nefatari: I’m not gonna be a Roxette fan in any time in the future. I know that for sure. It would be a step back.
rox-girl said on August 18, 2002 20:31:
I am a Roxette fan since 1990 and I am sure I will be a fan for the rest of my life. They are a part of my life. I listen to other bands too but I allways cameback to Roxette.
Don´t be so sure that you are not a fan anymore. Could happend that you hear a song from them and fall in love with them again.
StupidGirl said on August 18, 2002 20:41:
@rox-girl: If Roxette made the ’perfect popsong’, I’m sure, I’d like it. But I won’t ever like them as much as I did two years ago. Maybe I’d like one or two songs of them or a whole album. But I won’t adore them as a band anymore in the way that I have to get every single song and hang their posters on the wall.
StupidGirl said on August 18, 2002 21:03:
;) of course you never really know what will happen... maybe when I’m 80 years old I’ll take out my Roxette albums and play them all day long :)
Ferdan said on August 19, 2002 01:16:
no , you’re not stupid cos you don’t like roxette anymore.... that’s easy to understand..
your stupid ’cos your ways and spam...... you were dying to get a little of attention.....
StupidGirl said on August 19, 2002 12:50:
If I was only dying to get a little attention I’d just have written “Roxette suck” or something like that.
...But in a way you’re even right. I wanted to see how people here react.
StillFar said on August 19, 2002 14:08:
Ferdan, why can’t you just shut up once in a while, she’s trying to make a point...
CRIZ said on August 19, 2002 17:18:
@stupidGirl: well, I’m not the one to say who is a real fan or who is not. But I’m a fan for 13 years now and during that time you really get to know much about Per and Marie. Not only music things. It’s not only the music that I love about Roxette. I can identify with the persons too. In one and a half year you maybe can’t really build a “relationship” (or what to call it) to a band. So don’t worry about that! I was a fan from another singer before I turned a Roxettefan and suddenly I realized that this other singer didn’t mean much too me anymore. It was a strange feeling. So, maybe I know a bit what you ’re feeling now. But..well, time changes. It’s your life and your choice to do things the way you do. So...listen to what ever you want.
ixtlaner said on August 22, 2002 15:43:
Hey, that was pretty interesting! You did well for someone that hates writing! And I think I understand you very well, and agree with you. The most important thing is to be true to yourself [and that’s rather hard in our world!]. “People change, that’s the most natural thing” [(c) Per Gessle]. You needed something that Roxette gave you, now you move on. Good luck & take care!
[@ the rest - why are some ppl here being so hostile? sometimes one needs to share with someone or just write down the thoughts in their heads, haven’t you ever felt like that?]
There are many reasons for one to become a “fan” [the love for the *music* itself is far not the major]. And there’s nothing wrong if someone doesn’t like Roxette.
[p.s. in case someone doubts it :) - i still consider myself a rox-&-related fan]
[p.p.s. *everyone* who has ever written a word in a forum desires attention
... oh, I know no one cares what I think, but I can’t help sharing my thoughts once in a while :o)
Rox on/off! :o)]
Ferdan said on August 22, 2002 23:10:
stupidgirl is trying to make apoint stillfar.... so let her talk and don’t bother...
vaxjoe said on August 23, 2002 19:35:
@ stupid girl:
if i said that i understand your point i’d be a liar....i ve been a fan for 12-13 years and i’ll always be
i have experimented with other bands but listening to a band for 1-2 years and then drop it doesnt really make u a fan does it?
all the artists that i consider myself as their fan i never stop liking them and it usually lasts for years, more like decades ....in this category i place roxette
all the others dont last more than 1-2 years...artists that i liked and loved at some point but havent been a fan
fan=fanatic so once a fan always a fan
and something else....ok we assume that once u were a fan and now u arent...why do we have to know? u could have written a small post saying “ok its been nice but i have to go so bye” why all this report? do u want us to excuse u for ur decision or u re trying to convince yourself that u did the right thing?
Lars-Erik_Olson (moderator) said on August 23, 2002 21:50:
There are HUNDREDS (maybe even thousands) of people who USED to be Roxette fans, but who no longer are. Most of these people simply vanish, and are no longer heard from. Stupid Girl’s essay, if TDR were tight on space, could be edited down to “I was a big fan once, but now I’m not. Maybe someday you too might not be a fan.”
“Take care!” is a nice way to say goodbye. So you take care too Stupid Girl! Time to move on...
RoXoR said on August 24, 2002 16:09:
@StupidGirl
I know what you mean and i can understand it very well, because people change, i know it, it’s the most natural thing! Thats something i learned from a very wise man! ;-)
And not at least they will ever a part of you also if it had been every other group but it was Roxette!
RoXoR
overdog said on November 1, 2002 23:56:
A couple of years back I considered myself a huge fan of Roxette. They’ re music was really the air that I breathed. When they released the album Have a Nice Day, they came up with a new image and sound.
I knew Per and Marie hadn’ t changed themselves but their new style didn’ t really appeal to me as before.
I listened to HAND over and over, got to like some of the tracks, never appreciating others. Then came Room Service. As I played it several times I felt that
the style of the album was different from HAND but yet I found it difficult to get really attached to it, it wasn’ t as familiar and close to me as I had always found the other Rox albums.
I keep all these feelings and thoughts inside of me for several months. I went to one of the Room service concert and thought that the atmosphere of most of the songs wasn’ t ’ Roxette’ so to say . I thought it had been a good show, but not special as the Joyride adn C!B!B! concerts . Later I downloaded the video of a Swedish concert from the net....watched several times but couldn’ t shake the grip of that feeling off me.
I ’ ve now been thinking about these issues for quite some time and I am coming to the conclusion that I had like (and I still do like it) the old style of Roxette because it had always fitted my personality and feelings but as they digressed from what they used to be, I kept being myself....and started to get interested in bands that better represented what I am feeling at this stage of my life (it’ s not only the music itself, it’s the colours, the design, the ligths, the video clips...they all together contribute to the feeling I get from a band). I never thought I could ever write something like this....but as I read StupidGirl’ s thread, I felt the need of airing my views.
Stormkeeper said on November 2, 2002 09:55:
@Ferdan@:
You like to provoke people, right? Does it turn you on? :)
zaine said on November 3, 2002 21:30:
I agree with you. Im 15 and I started listening to roxette from the second I was born thanks to my dad. I stopped listening at the age of four, thanks to my dad. i started listening again a few months ago, thanks to me. I remembered being a kid. But I have the strangest feeling that it’ll pass and I’ll find something else. At the moment im spending hours per day on the net trying to find info on the 11 years I missed. I wrote an essay at school on Roxette and got an A*. Where ever I am I have a roxette tape in my walkman. At the moment Im obsessed. Obsessed but shy. Come on, what type of English 15 year old listens to Roxette? No-one in my class has even heard of them! Right now, I love them both so much, and wish them the best for the future, but I think that one day, I won’t switch on my cd player in the morning because I’d have got bored of it. I hope, really really hope, that that wont happen but I can never predict anything in my life.
Ive had ’fads’ before. I used to LOVE blink 182, or did I? No. I didn’t. I was listening to them because they were cool at the time. do I love roxette? yes. yes I do, because no-one’s pressured me into them, they’re not cool (among my piers) at the moment, but they’re special to me. And all I can say, is that I hope I carry on enjoying Roxette, because I want to. Not because I have to.
StupidGirl said on November 3, 2002 21:50:
I heard Roxette’s new song on the radio quite a lot so I decided to come back again and see what’s happening...
first a some news for the swiss fans: Per is on DRS3 next tuesday (5 nov) from 18,00 to 19,00. For those who can’t get this station try www.drs3.ch. maybe you can listen online.
StupidGirl said on August 16, 2002 22:23:
It wasn’t that I didn’t like them anymore. I had just found stuff that I found more interesting. The Roxette posters were still hanging on the wall. But one day I took them down too and put up new ones. No posters with people, they only show album covers. I think it has something to do with growing up too. I was 15 or 16 then, now I’m 18. At that age you can change a lot. I don’t care about Roxette anymore today. Sometimes I take out some albums and listen to them again. And sometimes I come here to see what people write. They were a big part of my life for some months. I still have most of the CDs and I don’t regret buying them, even though they just stand around and occupy space I’d need for my other CDs. I’ve always loved music and Roxette made this love even stronger. I was reading a lot about them. Once I read an article from NME and they weren’t exactly nice to Roxette. I thought they were arrogant bastards. But I wanted to know what they liked if not Roxette. I’m a signed up reader to this mag now. :)