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Have you ever heard Rox in the shopping mall?

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LaMan said on October 10, 2004 09:24:

and what is the strangest place you´ve heard them playing?

RoXoR said on October 10, 2004 11:31:

The strangest place? It was on a tv nightprogramm, i swiched around and suddenly i heard roxette! It was a lesbian softporno.

Bunio said on October 10, 2004 14:28:

Shopping Mall? Yes. Very often, for example The Ballad hits, Room Service and all the major hits. (I live in Poland)

Strangest place?Hmmm i don’t know:)

lesbian softporno? Nice :)

duncan said on October 10, 2004 15:01:

I heard WICF & HT (cd single) playing from a small “New age” clothes shop ,Tie dye and healing jewellery, while walking through town back when the single was released.

Speedo said on October 10, 2004 15:23:

Vulnerable in a supermarket in Brussels (more than once!)

And last Summer I heard the whole album Finn 5 Fel in a shopping mall in Malmö, but hey, that’s Sweden :-)

Zerot said on October 10, 2004 16:27:

In a supermarket the whole Look Sharp album... and other day I call your name in the same place

zaine said on October 10, 2004 17:59:

at the ice rink a few days ago they play how do you do :P

Faezdel said on October 10, 2004 18:51:

@Duncan: what is HT???

I used to go to the Internet cafe (I bought my own PC recently), and sometimes the radio was playing “It must have been love” or “Un día sin ti”. Another day, a guy was listening to “Joyride” very loud (I could hear the song through his headphones).

A nice memory: Last december, I was with my boyfriend (my ex, actually, lol). We were in his car, in front of a gas station. There was loudspeakers outside the station, and the radio was playing. And then, “June afternoon” started. It was December (our summer) and the song fits perfectly the situation. One of my best memories...

Rich-UK said on October 10, 2004 18:57:

HT = Happy Together... the b-side of Wish I Could Fly

RoxHard said on October 10, 2004 19:29:

I was in a big shopping complex here in the UK called Marks & Spencers, and I heard ATAY on big rdio. I was surprised because ATAY flopped in the UK.

I had just finished shopping when it came on, so I started wandering around for about 4 minutes till the song was over. I reckon some people thought I was shoplifting or something!

And I heard Stars on an episode of Hollyoaks once. And it wasn’t ’low’. At the beginning of every episode of Hollyoaks, they usually play a song and they have NO TALKING. They just show people doing normal things in fast-motion. They played around 45 seconds of the Stars intro, which was nice... ;)

jobarth said on October 10, 2004 19:50:

Yes, I’ve heard Roxette often in a shopping mall in Belgium, when I was there on holidays or in some restaurants. Or in a little shop near my home they played the whole RS Album.

Faezdel said on October 10, 2004 19:59:

Thank you Rich-UK. Maybe i forgot that song because it’s not one of my favorites...

Mary said on October 10, 2004 21:39:

I once heard “The Voice” in a supermarket about 9 years ago! At that time I still didn’t know the song (yeah, I got to know the B-sides quite late LOL) and the only thing about the song that got stuck in my mind was the rhythm and Marie singing high notes. Some weeks later I got hold of the whole song.
And last year when I was in Sweden in Jönköping there was the whole “Mazarin” album playing in the A6 shopping center; I actually bought “Mazarin” straight away there.

bunny said on October 10, 2004 23:13:

i have heard Listen to your heart and IMHBL several times in a few Hallmark card shops in the US

LittleSpooky said on October 11, 2004 02:18:

I drive bus for public transit. I heard one of the songs off “Look Sharp!” bein blasted out of this guy’s Jeep. I couldn’t help but to stare. He turned and I gave him the thumbs up.

regn said on October 11, 2004 03:37:

FLAF in a... water sync dance ( danza acuática (?) )

Roxer93 said on October 11, 2004 05:05:

I’ve been hearing Joyride in the supermarket alot lately. Last night I saw an ad on TV for carpet or something and it had The Look on it. It was changed to “we’ve got the look”.

Edit: It was for a paint shop.

flower said on October 11, 2004 07:24:

Last week I flew home from Nice, France and while taxiing to the take-of-strip How do you Do! was played. Strange isn’t it. I had never heard music in a plane before.

Summer 2003 I was in Havana, Cuba and while entering our hotel Listen to your Heart was played. Funny, it thought then, but after four weeks it was still the only pop-tune I had heard. All other music was this Cuban / caribean tune.

RobS said on October 11, 2004 08:05:

i heard a lot of Almost unreal at the supermarket when it was out. And i once heard the HAND album playing at one of them discount stores. I’ve been told that there’s a hairdresser in town that plays alot of Roxette!

girl7twenty7 said on October 11, 2004 11:27:

Roxette - many times. Strange, but mostly Almost Unreal was playing.
Once (3 or 4 years ago) I’ve heard the WHOLE TWATG in the store. I hadn’t had this album yet and it had impressed me very much.

animalkingdom said on October 11, 2004 18:10:

Well, I have heard the entire Room Service album spinning @ Jim & Jill here in Finland...

But one of the strangest places I’d consider is the most regular bar I go to during day-time cos they have “Spending My Time”, “How do you do!”, “Dangerous” and “Knockin’ on every door”(!!) on their playlist... There’s not a day you wouldn’t hear Roxette there! ;P

Oscarbcn said on October 11, 2004 19:27:

Some months ago I heard Marie’s Antligen at IKEA, which is sort of normal if you take into account that it is a Swedish shopping centre, but not that normal hearing Swedish in Spain. I felt veeeery happy and told my girlfriend:hey, that’s Marie!!!
From time to time I hear all of Roxette major hits in different shopping centers, last time being last week. It was LTYH...

AURYTE said on October 11, 2004 21:06:

I’ve heard several times ROXETTE (mainly ballads) in shopping centres, but actually I don’t go there too often. And I’ve heard ROXETTE a few times in restaurants/cafes.

Roxette-atic said on October 11, 2004 21:47:

Some years ago one of the biggest shopping malls in sthlm used to play the whole “Joyride” album. Several times. Almost every time I went there they were playing the “Joyide” album. And “The Ballad Hits” was being played in a exclusive clothes shop.

LaMan said on October 11, 2004 22:04:

“Antligen” played at IKEA in Spain!?
wow keep posting :)

antz said on October 11, 2004 22:23:

I hear Roxette all the time at shopping malls and supermarkets. Mostly The Look, LTYH, IMHBL and joyride)
The strangest place I heard Roxette was at the airport, can you guess which song it was? Wish I Could Fly of course!

grisu said on October 12, 2004 05:04:

Some years ago I wanted to buy “Halmstads Pärlor” during my holidays in Denmark. After having looked for it in three towns , I entered a record store in Hjörring. They were just playing “What´s she like”. That must have been a good sign, I finally found the CD.

Mi_of_Halmstad said on October 12, 2004 20:36:

i was in mogaduro in northen portugal. having an ice tea at an empty coffeshop. in a corner they had a small tv showing mtv. and then they did roxette top then. it was soo much fun! 6 girls from halmstad just going cray, yelling for the old guy behind the counter to turn it up!

Mi_of_Halmstad said on October 12, 2004 20:43:

oh on the first cruise to finland i made with my boyfriend after we got together they played tycker om när du tar på mej just as we steped on board the boat. we just looked at eachother and laughed, it was so perfect. it seemed to be a great trip right from the beginning. (and the rest was fantastic too) since that moment its a very special song to me.

mardain said on October 12, 2004 21:03:

the strangest placcce wheerree i listened to a roxxette song was on my own school... was horrible.. so that was in an ocassion wich companions made a work about how to work on a radio... so then made a raanking and the damn ones put the song c!b!b! LAST to only bother me!!!! fuck

Anarem said on October 12, 2004 21:24:

I once heard “Go To Sleep” in the mall. It was so strange because that song was never released as a single.

ally77 said on October 13, 2004 12:10:

Not a mall, but does Morrisson’s supermarket count.... MY WORLD MY LOVE MY LIFE!! about the only decent thing that supermarket does is play good music!! :) was playing this morning when I was buying chicken!!

lonely_girl said on October 13, 2004 12:48:

Today at the supermarket TCOTH

Oldag75 said on October 13, 2004 17:39:

The strangest place was at a beer-joint dive in the Houston Heights where some old redneck was having a birthday party, and he’d brought a tape of his favorite songs – and suddenly out blasts “Crashing Guitars.” It sounded so good, he rewound and played it three times.

My wife says the strangest place she’s ever heard Roxette is in the film “Pretty Woman,” because she can’t understand how in the world any pretty woman could think it must have been love, when the dude in question was a weasel-faced air head like the actor in that movie.

Roxreporter said on October 13, 2004 18:25:

Last week in the shopping mal in Belgium: Breathe!!! I was quite surprised :)

LaMan said on October 13, 2004 19:21:

so what do you think how come they play non single releases?!? Isn´t that weird? :)

AURYTE said on October 13, 2004 20:57:

I also heard a few times ROXETTE on my schools radio. Also I’ve heard ROXETTE on Mexican soap operas. It was PERFECT DAY & WATERCOLOURS IN THE RAIN.

royalball said on October 16, 2004 13:15:

The day that CBB was released in the States they played it in the mall. I’ve heard them in Taco Bell, Jack in the Box.

JoyRidErno said on November 14, 2004 20:19:

Once I heard MWMLML in local ’market’ (Anttila, Lappeenranta). I never thought someone would play it. But cos I love the song, it was fun to sing and dance thru the market ;)

Baby-C said on November 15, 2004 10:06:

Well yea since I do live in sweden they play GT and Roxette in shoppingmalls every now and then.

And quite often, when it’s a hockygame here in sweden, with the national team Tre Kronor, they sometimes play “Gå & Fiska” when someone in the swedish team gets a 2 min. penalty. That’s the only reason I get happy when that happens. *smile*

Robrox said on November 15, 2004 14:08:

I once heard the whole Ballad Hits album in a shopping mall here in Austria. In supermarkets I hear Rox songs very often. I heard ATAY more than once at Mc Donalds.
The strangest place: In a soccer stadium here in Austria some months ago: How do you do!

ditroia said on November 16, 2004 13:13:

ATAY in a supermarket which was funny since it wasn’t teleased as a single in Aus.

Dave

shammes said on November 16, 2004 17:34:

Just last night I was shopping at Macy’s at Colonie Center in Albany, New York and saw the video for Center of the Heart on one of the overhead monitors...astonishing seeing as how neither the single or video got any play here when it was released years ago.