Santi said on January 10, 2003 20:22:

The things she does with that guitar on Joyride and The Look videos... I can say she didn’t.
Maybe now she’s learnt something... I dunno that :o

Santi said on January 10, 2003 22:19:

Actually for her solo records they have to hire studio musicians because neither Marie nor Mikael play it. I know Mikael is multi-instrumentalist and sometimes he plays most instruments, but few times (if any) he plays guitar. They usually hire that Staffan Astner (that was on Äntligen toor toor) or Max Schultz...

I even think Per does play guitar, but on the concerts his guitar is unplugged. You can’t hear it at all, in Johannesburg concert ’95 (the one on video) you can only hear it on Listen to your heart (I hope) with the acoustic. The rest he just “plays” what Jonas or Micke are playing but you only hear 2 guitars, not three :O Even when he’s with an acoustic guitar :(

spacedog said on January 11, 2003 20:32:

Exactly my opinion. I think she plays good enough to compose, but of course she hires professional guitar players for recording sessions because it sounds a lot better!

NickNL74 said on January 12, 2003 04:23:

Uh?!

First discovering she (still) doesn’t have a driverslicence.. now it seems she can’t play the guitar.. euhm.. is there more I should know off? ;-)

Anarem said on January 12, 2003 05:48:

Geez, you know, the next thing we’ll find out is that Marie isn’t a real blonde!

Mambo said on January 12, 2003 12:57:

Marie isn’t really blond (everywhere)?
and i find out that now....joking

Anarem said on January 12, 2003 16:04:

The cuffs don’t match the collar. :-)

In the end, I don’t think it really matters whether she’s pretending to play the guitar on stage or in the videos– she just looks really hot with a guitar slung around her. As for looking foolish, I think that the Joyride video (Per and Marie on an airplane wing), or the Real Sugar video (Per and Marie playing with these ugly puppets) make them look even more silly. I would rather have Marie playing fake guitar than Roxette making another stinky video with puppets or airplane wings. :-)

Jud (moderator) said on January 12, 2003 22:52:

what about Marie in the water with plastic ducks? :DD

goetz said on January 13, 2003 00:01:

By the way, The stars-video sucks! Jonas Akerlund as well!!

NickNL74 said on January 13, 2003 03:48:

to Wedge 31: Get outta here.. you’re really serious about the puppets in real suger? I’ll have you locked away for that, beware!! *grin* No honestly.. they might as well had left those missfit muppets in that dusty corned where they had found them.. i think it’s one of the biggest mistakes they have made (ever) just when they were well on their way back to some higher grounds again.. those puppets must have damaged their credibility in some way :-( Too bad..

Hope Marie will recover soon so she can start bossing Per&Co. around.. see what that might achieve.. Yea.. the woman seriously needs to kick some ass! Go get em babe ;-)

NickNL74 said on January 13, 2003 03:56:

as for Santi: “Euh... Efter Stormen is before those videos... right? :S
Oops... then I don’t know, but she didn’t even place her hands in a right way :S”

Maybe she had em in a sort of black BMW position ;-)

Now I’m really outta here (for now at least)

Th_Th said on January 13, 2003 09:05:

@Anarem:
Well, if you think the Airplane wings are stupid, just think about it this way, it might be stupid today, but sure 12 years ago, they won the MTV music award for best video for this Video with, as you put it “stupid” airplane wings...
of course, it is kinda stupid today, but sure it was the bomb 12 years ago...

Anarem said on January 14, 2003 01:30:

Actually, even back then I thought the Joyride video sucked tea bags. I found it cheesy, low-budget and not that innovative, compared to other videos that were running at the time. It’s just my personal opinion.

Th_Th said on January 14, 2003 09:41:

Well, I think Marie is just the bomb, even though she doesn’t play the Guitar that well... I must say though, the Guitar really suits her! :-)

Santi said on January 14, 2003 11:44:

You don’t need to play any instrument to write songs, not even guitar. With a flute you can compose anything :D
Piano for me is....... boooooooooooooooooring :S

Santi said on January 14, 2003 11:53:

I don’t say she doesn’t know music or she doesn’t play piano.
But she can compose a whole song with the greatest harmony just “in theory”. Without the need of any instrument. Music is in your brains before it’s in your mouth or fingers.

Twilight-Ghost said on January 14, 2003 15:13:

@Th_Th:

It’s either I was blind or have a really bad memory. But I don’t remember her playing the piano in Fading Like A Flower video.

Did you by any chance meant ’It Must Have Been Love’???
She played the instrumental part in IMBHL video.
And you’re right she really ROCKS!!!

But I can tell she didn’t really play it. I know as talented as she is she probably knows how to play the song, but maybe the director just told her not to bother on actually playing it but just make sure the timing is correct.

I know how to play the IMBHL song on the piano (I have the Roxette music sheet exactly the way they recorded it), my favourite is the ’instrumental part’ (the part she has suppose to have played on the video). But I can tell she didn’t really play it because I noticed there were three notes there, and she played the notes as if they were close to each other. While in reality, those notes are actually very apart, so your hand needed to do a little stretch to play it. While Marie didn’t extend her hand at all.

But of course if you didn’t know how to play that on the piano yourself you would be deceived because she got all the timing correctly. Which just proves she could in fact really play the piano.

@Santi: How could you say the piano is boring. It is not. It is probably the most versatile instrument there is. By the way, a keyboard can sound like any kind of instrument.

anna-marie said on January 14, 2003 17:41:

MARIE ISN’T A REAL BLONDE???? ;-)))

Marie can play the piano, I don’t know how well, but she can.
There are so many performances where she plays the piano and remember all the concerts of Roxette and solo.

And the guitar thingie: Mmmhh...I think she can play a “little” guitar, but not more.

I’m not sure for 100%, but when I remember right, there isn’t any cable at her guitar in the “live-ism” video.
(Hope I explained it right) I’m not an expert, but all the other guitars had an cable.
So...how should anyone hear any sound of her guitar without cable?? *thinking*

@Anarem: I’m absolutly your oppinion with the “Stars” video...:-)))
But she had to freeze to death...poor darling...

Santi said on January 14, 2003 21:46:

The solo piano Marie keeps on playing in concerts sounds boring... Piano played like in Michael Nyman’s Soundtrack to “the piano” I love it.
But I find that instrument boring most times. But that’s just a point of view.

T.G.: I know pretty well what a keyboard is, I have a synthetiser 1 meter away from me right now, and I play it (not well, but I know where every note is and I know how to play with both hands...). But whenever you can get the original sound is lots better than any canned synthetiser one...

Santi said on January 15, 2003 11:14:

In Per’s case is not about cable, is about 3 guitars on stage and you hear just 2. The same with Marie if she ever “played” guitar on stage. You don’t hear it.

Th_Th said on January 15, 2003 15:14:

Well, at the beginning Marie and Per also used to flirt on stage, as part of their Show on Stage, and that also changed... how they played in videos was different too, but don’t forget, ones you get married, it all changes, you whole view of things changes completely, I am married myself now and could never imagine flirting with someone else but my wife, even if it wold be just on stage. This is how my wife and I feel, and she is in the Show Business herself... so, maybe Marie and her hubby just feel the same way and Per and Asa too.... who knows...
and I really think, if Marie would have married Per in the Stars Video, it would have been to weird, of course newspapers would have start rumours about their relationship, that they used to be an item... or whatever... it was just a wise decision to replace Per for an actor that looks much more alike to Maries real hubby...

SisterDarkness said on January 16, 2003 02:56:

Speaking of Roleplaying, you have to admit that the Neverending Love video when she comes over and sits with him, you crack up.. It is SOOOOO Funny to see their expressions!!

Can Marie play guitar, she said she composed ES on guitar as for The Look when they do it live... I believe she has her fingers on the “A” Chord and the Look you can pretty much play a “bass” riff with the “A” chord.. depending on how your guitar is tuned.

Besides, and you can shoo tme over this... Notice that Per’s electric guitars the volume is never high up? You hear Jonas but not Per.... Interesting huh? ;)

NickNL74 said on January 16, 2003 11:31:

@Twilight Ghost

Ok, I must admit, the first few time those puppets we’re funny, but after a while they started to irritate me.. They had better taken some better styled ones.. these were too dull. I still like Marie’s jeans better ;-))

anna-marie said on January 16, 2003 12:27:

Oh yeaah!
Marie’s Jeans looks really cool, or shall I say sexy? :-)))