Roxette, when dreams come true.
Roxette is the very first band I ever fell in love with. I fell in love with Marie and her look, her hair and her voice. I fell in love with the way they danced around the stage/music video having the *best* time singing their songs. I fell in love with Per and his ineffable joy in music and guitar, his incredible respect and amazement in Marie - you can just see it in his face. Or at least, when I watch their old videos and such, I can see it.
"The Look" was the first song I ever loved, followed by "Listen to Your Heart" both of which are still my equal favourites (along with several others from various albums over time).
Here, have some links to both those:
Listen to Your Heart:
The Look:
I was too young and not in a city when they last came to Australia on tour, so I didn't get to go. But I've harboured the dream to see them live in concert since very early on.
On the 28th of February 2012, I finally got to live that dream.
Oh... oh and it was worth it. It was absolutely everything I'd hoped for and wanted. I recognised all the songs they sang except the one from their new album and sang myself hoarse. More than that, the songs they'd picked as their favourites are also some of my favourites and it was *wonderful* to appreciate that.
Also, I cannot tell you how joyous it was to see them having fun together on stage with their band, making music. The guitar just rang out like a clarion call and it was just *music* distilled with pure joy and love of playing. I will never forget what it was like to experience the energy of that live playing together. Truly, Roxette has some amazing guitar in their repertoire!
It is also the first concert experience I've been to where other friends were going as fans as well! I've never had that before and it was also really lovely just to squeak happily and know it was understood and returned.
I still want to meet them in person one day, I want to tell them how much I love their happy songs, how much I love their music and the way they sing. I want to tell them that I love how they're still such good friends so many years later.
I'm just revelling happily in my fangirl experience of hearing them live and loving it. Getting to cheer my appreciation and thanks, my joy and delight to them.
I wish I could relive it over and over again.
This is a quintessential moment in my life, fulfilling in a 'big ticky box of life' kind of way. There is a deep abiding happiness I have having seen them live, and having enjoyed myself to the upmost.
I hope I get to see them in concert again and again... I just want to continue to be so glad that they're in the world doing what they love and that I get to appreciate it.
It inspires me, as their songs and lyrics have done all along, to live the most magnificent and love filled life I can. My earliest inspiration about love? Definitely thanks to Roxette.
I'm still in love with love. I'm still in love with Roxette... I can't imagine that ever changing.
This entry was originally posted at http://transcendancing.dreamwidth.org/840747.html
"The Look" was the first song I ever loved, followed by "Listen to Your Heart" both of which are still my equal favourites (along with several others from various albums over time).
Here, have some links to both those:
Listen to Your Heart:
Click to viewThe Look:
I was too young and not in a city when they last came to Australia on tour, so I didn't get to go. But I've harboured the dream to see them live in concert since very early on.
On the 28th of February 2012, I finally got to live that dream.
Oh... oh and it was worth it. It was absolutely everything I'd hoped for and wanted. I recognised all the songs they sang except the one from their new album and sang myself hoarse. More than that, the songs they'd picked as their favourites are also some of my favourites and it was *wonderful* to appreciate that.
Also, I cannot tell you how joyous it was to see them having fun together on stage with their band, making music. The guitar just rang out like a clarion call and it was just *music* distilled with pure joy and love of playing. I will never forget what it was like to experience the energy of that live playing together. Truly, Roxette has some amazing guitar in their repertoire!
It is also the first concert experience I've been to where other friends were going as fans as well! I've never had that before and it was also really lovely just to squeak happily and know it was understood and returned.
I still want to meet them in person one day, I want to tell them how much I love their happy songs, how much I love their music and the way they sing. I want to tell them that I love how they're still such good friends so many years later.
I'm just revelling happily in my fangirl experience of hearing them live and loving it. Getting to cheer my appreciation and thanks, my joy and delight to them.
I wish I could relive it over and over again.
This is a quintessential moment in my life, fulfilling in a 'big ticky box of life' kind of way. There is a deep abiding happiness I have having seen them live, and having enjoyed myself to the upmost.
I hope I get to see them in concert again and again... I just want to continue to be so glad that they're in the world doing what they love and that I get to appreciate it.
It inspires me, as their songs and lyrics have done all along, to live the most magnificent and love filled life I can. My earliest inspiration about love? Definitely thanks to Roxette.
I'm still in love with love. I'm still in love with Roxette... I can't imagine that ever changing.
This entry was originally posted at http://transcendancing.dreamwidth.org/840747.html