Marie interview Äntligen Sommarturné DVD

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things evening by evening when you are talking to the audiences for instances. I did that aswell. But when I dared to give it up and you dared to do something else, like going on theside. Or if you suddenly dare to pick up a comment from the audiences then you get a nicecommunication. Or if you dare to invite the crew for instance. For example some who areworking on stage and they had a dance which they were doing in the back and it was veryfunny. One day I invited them and they were allowed to do their whole show up on the

stage and the audiences thought it was very funny. Yes, that you are not so locked in what can I sayin how we decided it has to be evening by evening. But that you dare togive it up! I think that is a strong point.Interviewer: Is it different - if you are talking and it's flowing and you have fun. Can youenjoy it then?Yes absolutely. I love when you are well up in it. Then it's really - you can feel that youhave it in your hands. Then I really enjoy it. But I think it almost takes, four, five concertsbefore you reach the stage where it just flows. It takes a while.

7- Hur viktigt r egot fr att bli en bra artist? / How important is the ego to become agood artist?It's very important that - if you receive very bad reviews for instance - or you have to readin the newspaper that someone doesn't like what you have done, then it's very important tohave your ego, because you know your abilities, you know what you are good at. Here isone person who thinks so - sometimes you must not forget what it is you have and who

you are. Well, I mean that you don't become too sad or too crestfallen because someone hasa different opinion. You have to respect that of course. But then it's very nice if you cansurround and protect yourself with your ego. But I think that you give it up when you areon stage. Then you just have to try to be as generous as you can and you have to give asmuch as you can. So even if I do all this for myself of course as well - but the more I cangive to communicate to forget anxiety or stress the more I can let it go. Then you can alsoreach out. The ego - you can see it in so many ways but I see it more like - sometimes it canbe very nice to use it to protect yourself from idiots!

8-Varfr betyder tabloidpressen mer hemma n utomlands? / Why does the tabloid pressmean more at home than abroad?Because here everything is painted so much in black and white. I got used to both of it andthe same goes for Roxette abroad - but that's another thing. I mean Roxette - there we aretwo, together we have much more strength and it's something completely different. Buthere at home with my Swedish lyrics which areI think I let myself out so terribly much in

my writing and in - and even on stage - in other words it is a huge emotional release andlike, you really give all you feel here and now, right now. And then it's obvious that youbecome sad if someone just takes a piece apart, and you wonder if they have actually been

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there or what they have to do there from the beginning, and you feel that they were notinterested in it, or why is it that I can't touch YOU? Why can I touch 3000 people but notYOU? What's wrong? What's the reason? And another thing - what can I say.I thinksomehow I am more vulnerable if I am singing in Swedish because it's so much about myinner being. But for Roxette it's especially Per who writes the lyrics and it's in a differentlanguage. It's easier to hide behind that I think. And you can also hide behind a different

attitude. But my Swedish songs - that's me, so naked somehow.

9- Vilken typ av kritik srar mest? / What kind of criticism hurts most?You can see through it - somehow you can directly notice if someone has made a decisionbefore - what their opinion will be. I think you can read if it is already decided. And you

can also feel if someone has really listened or not. You notice that the more experience youhave. You can feel directly if it is someone who is involved or not. And of course I thinkthat you have to take criticism and of course people have to say what they think, but do itwith dignity, do it in a constructive and distinct way. Sometimes we think that they onlywant to spread shit and that it is only intended to be a really spiteful writing. It's rubbish.There is no dignity in it.

10- Hur hller du dig i form? / How do you stay in shape?After my second child I realised that I must begin training otherwise we have to quit thiscareer! (Laughs) No, but I train about four times a week it's quite a lot. Hmm all sorts oftraining. Everything from weightlifting, to boxing, to, yeahordinary cycling, ordinaryfitness training. It's a routine in my life - at least three times a week, I must push myself todo it. And as early in the morning as possible. Otherwise it will interrupt a lot of otherthings. It works very well. But I have a trainer who whips me (makes a whip with herhand) cause it can be hard to have that willpower, all on your own. It could easily happen

that you skip one day if you dont have someone whipping you all the time.

11-Om man ser dig some en drink, hur mnga procent r sjlvskerhet, sex, musikalitetoch vilja? / If we look at you as a drink, what percentage is self confidence, sex, musicability and desire?

I must say its a very clear quarter of each part, I think actually. Its quite a good balance. Iam very secure in myself when I stand on the stage, and as a musician. I think it's a damngood mix, actually.

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12-Har du ngra frebilder fr ditt artister ? / Have you got any role models for yourartistry?Mick Jagger is a very big rolemodel, actually - Rolling Stones. I think Mick, his way ofmoving on the stage.his self evidence, his clarity - I love it. So I learned a lot fromwatching him. Also Tina Turner, she's very clear - especially old Ike and Tina Turner films,old concerts with Ike and Tina Turner with that power and strength is fantastic inspiration,so it's those two who inspire me most.Also someone very special is Jimi Hendrix, also his attitude and the rawness, I like theyou know, blues feelingyeah.

13-Hur viktigt r sex i artisteriet? / How important is sex in the artistry?I don't think it is. Well, if I stand on the stage then I don't think "Oh you have to try to beextra-sexy here!". It doesn't work like that. I only give what I feel in that moment. That canbe everything, that can be - I can feel a lot of strength in the voice and in the presence andin the interaction with the audiences but it depends on it what kind of song it is. Well a

song like "S skimrande var aldrig havet " where you are beginning a capella and only thevoice may speak may - only feel the silence around. There is an enormous strength in that.With only one voice. So it becomes what it becomes. It's not that you are thinking or thatyou feel that it has to be extra-sexy. That doesn't happen.

14-Har du ngra speciella poser? / Do you have you any special poses?Yes, there is one with Roxette actually I can't remember exactly which songit was apeaceful song in any case. It was awhat can I say - a pose where I hung my hand over themicrophone and looked down, and it made a silhouette behind me - we used the picture ona single from an albumI think it was the Tourism albumit's an incredibly good lookingpose actually, when I saw it I said "Wow! That came from me!" That's the way it goes. It's agreat feeling when the song ends and the song is still, and finished .in any case it was cute!Very cute! But such things happen when you improvise. And that's the best. To think toomuch about what you are doing, that's something people notice immediately, the audiencethinks "Oh that was very planned!"

Another thing is the choreography, the steps you take . But that's totally another thing. Ilike it best to improvise, to just give what I feel in the moment. It can be magic. It's sounplanned.

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15-Har du ngra andra dramaturgiska scentrick? / Do you have any other dramatic stagetricks?No, not exactly. But on the other hand, you can feel something in a pause, you can feel inwhat you say after a song, a special strength or you might feel that it's better to wait insilence. Allow yourself to feel the feeling - you know, you can manage such things.

16-Finns det en speciell Marie Fredriksson-pose? / Is there a special Marie Fredrikssonpose?A long time ago I used to throw my arms around, in the old Roxette videos, so much(throws arms around) and such. Then I tried to hold my arms completely still by my side!The best one is when I'm entirely still and singthat's hard actually. I must concentrate,stand totally still and focus. It's a beautiful strength, when I'm very concentrated, abeautiful way to communicate.

17-Vilken r pophistoriens bsta pose? / Which is pop history's best pose?The first band that you experienced that you totally snapped over, was the Beatles shakingtheir heads singing "She loves you yeah yeah yeah!" And the first thing you thought whenyou saw them, was how dreadfully long their hair was! I'll never forget the first time I sawthem on TV shaking their heads and I thought "WOW!" That was intense! It was a greatpose - the whole song'swhat can I say.an identity - shaking their heads with the long

hair.

18-Vilken artist tycker du har haft det bsta snacket mellan ltarna? / Which artist do youthink has had the best banter (talking between songs?)The smartest and most charming banter I have seen on stage well that was Frank Sinatra.

I saw him at the Globen Arena (in Stockholm) many years ago hm, how long ago wasit well, almost 10 years ago yeah, in fact. He was so relaxed, so easy, elegant, warm and he had this great distance to himself. He had this earnestness it was like this

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20-Har dina barn varit med mycket under turnn? / Have your children been with youmuch during the tour?They were with me a lot, through the tour. It was one of the conditions for doing this tour.It was Josefin's summer holiday, and Oscar was turning four inNovember. We couldn'tust leave them for the whole summer, that wouldn't work, it was clear that they must comewith us. Also I think it's really much better to show them our job, to see everything we dothe whole time, to understand our job much more - Micke too because he was playingkeyboards, and it's good for them to see what mamma and pappa do, that we can be cooltogether, and for them to see the love that is there, between us. I think it was good to showthem. It showed something for me, especially Oscar. I felt that, especially with Oscar, I wasa bit worried about how he would handle it. But after the fifth or sixth concert he was tiredof touring, he just wanted to watch videos during the evening or even go to the hotel towatch a movie, play or do something else. So that made it clear for me. We can talk aboutour memories of the tour, it's really nice.

21-Hur mycket r det att jobba med sin man och vara arbetsgivare ? / How is it workingwith your husband and being work partners?(...) He was the conductor and he had helped me to put together the whole band, and allthe musicians are very good friends of ours.So it was, like - it is something that we do together. Micke has a lot of respect for me, for myob, for my routine and I have respect for him, as a musician, who has toured very often inSweden with all the possible artists and also for a really long time. So, instead, it becamefun to work together.

22-Hur frdelar ni frldraskapet, jobb och fritid mellan er? / How do you arrangeparenthood, work and free-time between you?We have tried to - like for example Roxette takes very much time and strength - then Micketakes a step backward and very much takes care of life at home, but then I have triedduring periods which can be long like for example - between a Roxette-record or between atour, when we are at home maybe for a year and we only write. Then I take a stepbackward and it is so important that Micke takes a step forward and does what he wants.

He writes also very much, we work and develop different projects, a large number ofdifferent ideas and, then it is so important that I support him, so it doesn't become that onlymy job has the upperhand, because it is so easy, when one has a so-called "world-career"

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that it becomes the only one to be focused on. It should not drown what you have at home,like a well. There will be nothing left .

23-Ni har varit hyggligt frskonade frn skvallerpressen ,vad r receptet? / You havebeen kindly spared by scandalistic press, what is the formula?I have always said to take some kind of... that it is important to take a distance and a limitto the media.A thing is when we release a record or you do a tour, we sit and talk here for a concert, afilm and so, then it feels only wonderful to talk and to be, you know, and do the best onecan of it, but, then, I believe that one must try to find a normal life from a side, for ourchildren's sake. We cannot - therefore if we had a heap of paparazzi stuck here I would not

live here.I feel we will always stay in Sweden, we are at ease here, so I believe that media are here athome are so used to us, we care so much.We are too boring, it's too small of a scandal . We seem morelike normal.

24-Vad har du fr drmmar musikaliskt och vad skulle du vilja utveckla? / Whichdreams do you have concerning music and what would you like to develop?I would very clearly like to develop my jazz and blues dreams, for they are very deep inme. And I never really had the chance to show them or to interpret them or, what can Isay... so there are other projects which lie waiting, even if there are still far away in thefuture! So it is something I really want to do, a damn good jazz-record and there areincredibly good songs which I would like to perform, but it is totally another thing fromboth my solo-things and Roxette, but it is really good to still have dreams, like it is moreyou want to say and do. Then I would like also to develop the arrangement-side... I wouldlike to be more involved, and to arrange and to produce more.

25-Vrfr ger du inte ut dina lta p engelska? / Why don't you release your songs inEnglish?I would really want to try it, it would be interesting ...the seventh wave! Still the scent oflove - nnu Doftar Krlek... it would really be damn cool but I can't - it feels you must

divide a project, or every project, I can't do many projects at the same time, because itwould become so damn confusing , I must have one - take one thing at a time.

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26-Vad gr du musikaliskt om 10 r? / Regarding music, what will you be doing in 10years' time?Oh, I hope I will still be doing what I do nowadays! You know writing and so on. I don'tthink I will still go on tour though, because that's really a tough thing to do but ah, Ishould really not say that, you never know, and, after all, I'm well trained, hehe. Anyway,what I know is that it will always have to be something creative yeah, definitely! I couldnever live without music, or without art, any kind of it I mean, this is my life! I think Iwill be writing a lot, and I will keep on singing as long as it feels good to do that. We'll see!

27-Har du aldrig velat frga ngon av de mest extrema fansen om vad som r derasdrivkraft? / Haven't you ever wanted to ask any of your most extreme fans what theirmotivation is?Oh yes, I have tried to talk to them but most of the time, they just break down and startcrying! So that's a bit hard I don't know. They seem to totally live through our music.Most of those who I saw during my tour last summer (2000) were still the same ones who I

already saw on Roxette's tour, you know, when we had our last worldtour. So I mean 5 years later!!!! "Get a life! Do something else!!!" yet it's really great.(Voice from off: "Is it mainly girls or boys?")Oh, both, this varies a lot!It's fantastic that they are still so devoted after five years! Well, I think .. mainly some ofthose girls I wrote letters with I think some of them maybe have tough lives, they haveproblems, and our music gives them the strength to manage everything it's like somekind of balm for their souls, it helps them feel good. And I think it is wonderful that musiccan work like that.Yet, you know sometimes I do wonder when they all follow the tour like a caravan

There were fans who travelled to really EVERY SINGLE show. This must have cost theman awful lot of money!!!! I don't even mean concert tickets of course we always put someon the guestlist but, you know accommodation, travelling, all that incredible!!

28-Hur kndes det infr och under premiren i Borgholm ? / What did it feel like before

and during the tour premiere in Borgholm?Oh, I was terribly nervous! I mean, it had only been 5 years since the last time I toured withRoxette, but it had been 8 years since I was on solo tour! And, you know, it was raining the

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whole bloody day you really started to plead "oh my god, PLEASE, turn off that rain atleast during the concert". I felt so sorry for the poor audience standing out there, in thepouring rain, freezing and then, exactly when we walked on stage and the concertstarted, it stopped raining!!! Wonderful!And then, the concert well during the first half of it, I was still so very tense and soabsolutely concentrated and focused but thenafter the acoustic part, I got really relaxed

and really started to feel I gained control over everything wonderful!

29-Hur kndes det nr recensionerna kom dagen efter premiren ? / How did it feelwhen the reviews came the day after the premiere?Well sometimes when it felt of course - well partly I was very happy that so many people

who had been there or who had - or we also had the worldpremiere party in the hotelwhich was so cool and it was so great because you knew from so many friends who hadgone there and who thought that it was just great and you felt "It's so great, it works" andthen you look at certain evening papers - I won't say which ones - it doesn't matter - ahathen you become - no it isn't called evening paper anymore. What the hell are thesenewspapers called? It's clear that you - that I become sad - of course! I would lie if I wouldsay that I didn't become sad. Because you have worked and you stood and released - thereare so many feelings, there is so much release of emotions in such a concert and premiere.So the whole breakfast was a bit strange. But on the other hand there were also papers whowrote - in contrast to that - fantastic reviews.

30-Bryr man sig om Stockholmpressen fast man r vrldsartist? / Do you care about theStockholm press although one is world artist?Sometimes, I can get the feeling that, only because I've had such enormous successes, forexample with Roxette then I can't help feeling a little bit of peoples envy. -" You shouldn't

think that you can come back with your own material and make a success again!" - "Only alittle bit of success is ok, not too much!" Unfortunately, the Swedish mentality is like thatsometimes. At the same time, I am of course who I am, of course I have to write about myfeelings, my songs, everything from "S lnge det lyser mittemot" to "Den sjunde vgen" to"Tro". Those are different feelings and moods that I've experienced. And it's good to writeand sing about it.And then it's obvious that there are people who don't like it, and of course they shouldwrite that down. But it's not written so objectively. Sometimes they've already decided thatthe "small, poor, rich girl" that is something someone wrote once"don't come here andthink you're something" !!! It's obvious that you feel likethat says it all. Oooooi! Is that all

you can write? Can't you even come up with something else?That's their way, how they experience music. But even when you don't like the music youcan write objectively.

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31-r inte Marie Fredriksson och GylleneTider mer populra n roxette i Sverige? / Isn'tMarie Fredriksson and Gyllene Tyder more popular than Roxette in Sweden?That could be possible. The "Have a nice day" album has sold I think about 160.000 copies.And my greatest hits album sold 200.000 copies. Yeah, that's quite strange! Oh wellThat's because we go so far back, our audience is so enormously wide.

32-Vad r det bsta turnminnet? / What's the best tour memory?The are two, as a matter of fact, from the same, the last concert in Uppsalla. (she laughs allthe time while she speaks) Then you always have to have fun together. And Sverige, whowere the support act, came in this is the best tour memory, it was terribly funny! Theycame in small "Marie Fredriksson" T-shirts, the ones sold by the merchandise , bluechildren's T-shirts with "Marie Fredriksson" written on it. They forced themselves in the T-shirts. One of them came dancing on stage during the brass band solo in "ntligen"followed by the rest with less and less clothes on! The last one came on stage totally starknaked! He only wore the tiny T-shirt and the rest was naked! Which was terribly funny!

The audience didn't understand what was going on, but to us on the inside, it was fun! And I dressed up as a dog, a frightfully huge dog. And I came running in at their song "Skaffa hund." So we really had fun together with Sverige. They're a wonderful support act,it was a really, really heavy atmosphere with them!And the same night, after "Mellan sommar och hst" that was the last song before we gavean extra song oh what am I saying?.The one before the last song so after ehm"Vrdighet" it's completely black between the two songs. And I thought I should run uponto the drum platform and come to Christer Jansson och Mats Persson who do this reallycool drum solo intro before "Mellan sommar och hst". I just thought I could surprise themby appearing up there. Unfortunately it was pitch-black on stage during that drum solo

and when I was going to make this big jump onto this platform, I totally overlooked StaffanAstners monitor sticking so far out. I stumbled over the plugs and the monitor when Iwanted to jump and fell right down on the ground banging my microphone directly on thestage floor. Which resulted in a really loud "BANG" coming out of the P.A. It went completely wrong and I hit myself really bad. And I had to get up again andcontinue and get up to Christer and Mats on their podium. Well, it doesn't seem to take so long to run around, but it REALLY takes it's time. Andmoreover, I really hurt my knee and my thumb. In fact my thumb was so sore, I thought Ibroke it!When I had to sing I realised that up there's no monitor for me, so I didn't hear what I did

myself. It was a total chaos in that song! But it was just so funny, we all laughed our headsoff!

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33-Vad r det smsta turnminnet? / What is the worst tour memory?That is the damn weather!!! There were a couple of concerts, like in Trosa where it rainedthe WHOLE time! I also remember that it rained in Leksand and Vadstena. The audience isfantastic, they're standing outside! A Swedish summer can be so heavenly good andwonderful! And it's so damn great to tour and play outdoors when it's so beautiful.Evenings like in Stockholm "Sjhistoriska museet" it was so perfect and fantastic. And thepoor people who stood outside in Leksand, the was 12 degrees, it rained and the windblew! It rained in onto the stage and I felt the make up run off. That isn't so great!

34-Hur var spelningen p hemmaplan ? / How was it to play on home ground?The concert in Halmstad was very, very special. There, because I of course have lived inHalmstad for more than 10 years it felt a little like home ground. And then I had a littledream that Per Gessle would join me and sing something. So I asked him long ago if hefeels like it, and what he really wants, we can do something, whatever. He said "Yeah, wecan think of something, we must see". It must feel right in my thing. We wanted it to besomething in Swedish. So we sat there and came with the proposal of "Kung av sand"which I think is an unbelievably good song. So we rehearsed that one. At the sound checkin the afternoon we heard unbelievably many of the Roxette fans sitting outside andscreaming at us. So me and Per looked at each other and said " Let's play a Roxette song, tosee themit's for those who travelled so far!" So that was something completelyspontaneous that was decided that same afternoon. So we sang "Listen to your heart" andPer played the acoustic guitar and I sang. The reaction we got from all the Roxette fans,who're always in the furthest front, it was totally unbelievable. There were at least two ofthem who I thought would faint! It was completely fantastic.

35-Har du ngot kul publikminnet frn ngon speciell plats? / Do you have a funnyaudience memory from a special place?Varberg was also a really special night. It was good weather and I had many good friendsin the audience. There we really started getting "into the tour", that was enormouslyspecial.In my talk in between "nnu doftar krlek" I talk about Lasse Lindbom, coming toStockholm and there I met Efva Attling, who's one of my closest friends. So when I'mtalking about her, I say "I saw Efva Attling there and she came straight up to me andsaid". And so screamed a guy in the crowd "Do you want to marry me???!!!" Ha ha,

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terribly funny!!! I really had to laugh! That is the coolest thing that you can imagine, talkcoming out of the crowd, coming right in!And another time, the same evening as a matter of fact, another one who screams "YOU,can't you sing something in English, or say something in English? My friend here doesn'tunderstand shit!!!" Ha ha!!! It's so cool when they dare to communicate and dare to bedirect, dare to show it. It's terribly funny!

36-Hur var det att sjunga duett med Patrik Isaksson? / How was it to sing a duet withPatrik Isaksson?Patrik Isaksson sings of course in "Det som var nu" the 2nd single of the greatest hits albumwhich we also sang live. I talked with Patrik a couple of times. To try to get together on an

evening that it would work, try to have him as a guest, but he was also on tour in summer,it's really hard!Damn fly!!! (there's a little fly in her eye!!) It was in my eye!I was really happy that Patrik had time, that he could come to Stockholm, and that he wasoff that night. Because "Det som var nu" is a duet, it felt so lonely to sing it alone eveningafter evening without him! It was really strong when he came on stage. He's a wonderfulartist, a fantastic singer. He's absolutely one of my favorites in Swedish music right now.His expression is so real, so natural. Terrific!The same evening was also very great cos we got the whole brass band playing in"ntligen". They were 5 trumpet musicians; "Magnus Lindgren's Hot Five" they are called.

Who are unbelievably good. And it was also so special just because "ntligen" has becomesuch a big hit. And the brass part in the middle is the "hook" for the whole song. We'vedone that on the synthesiser during the whole tour. We didn't have money for that.Especially in Stockholm it was such a cool finish with them as guests. Real brass workseven better, it's so much power.

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