The old classic Roxette/Gyllene Tider spoof "Join the Flumeride" is coming back to haunt you on September 30. The Daily Roxette had a chat with Tobias Persson, the man behind most of the movie.
Tobias, it's been a few years now since you recorded this little movie, what are your memories from the recordings? I recall you got hundreds of extras volunteering for it.
"Only good memories. People to the left and to the right were so nice and donated their time and talent. Making the songs was especially fun, looking for typical Roxette sounds, rhymes, expressions. It brings out the child in you spoofing people, but it also takes a heart, that you love your 'victims', else you can go very wrong..."
Per is even in the movie, so that goes to show you that he likes it. What about Marie, there's a rumor saying she wasn't too fond of it?
"Per loves the movie, yes. Especially the music – which one understands. What Marie thinks, I don't know. The real Per is a colorful pop-boy singing about balloons on the moon and who wants to discuss songs by the Kinks. If you exaggerate that you only get someone even more happy-go-lucky, sunnier and without sorrow. In contrast to Per, Marie has always been more somber, reflective, adult and one who sings about faith and doubts. When you exaggerate that, she gets to be like in the movie... very thoughtful, 'deep,' almost pretentious. Maybe this can be viewed as mean by some. Sadly, parodies usually get very one-dimensional, but I hope she understands that we've been using very wide brushes when we painted this canvas."
How did you get MP on this train?
MP together with Bengt (Petersson) run Halmstad Records together and I guess they wanted to blow the dust off of our little flick before it was totally forgotten – a cultural act worth noting! I'm also proud we got MP as an extra in "Kaka på kaka." Jan-Owe Wikström (Hallandsposten) is also in it, almost invisible on the couch! An especially dear memory for me is when we played the final "Kaka på kaka" in studio T&A and MP laughed so hard - exactly where he was supposed to!"
MP is a good sport, no doubt. What do the other guys featured in the movie think?
"I know that Micke Syd, Göran (Fritzon) and MP like it. I've never met Anders (Herrlin), but I hope and believe that he would like it. After the world premiere Fritzon told me 'One of those trampolines would've been handy!' Wikström likes it too, he was a magnanimously good sport about himself."
STOCKHOLM – As part of what EMI is calling an "Original Album Series," Marie Fredriksson's previously remastered solo albums will be released in Sweden on August 8 as five CDs contained within one eco-friendly package. The cover art (shown to the left) includes the retro "Capitol Full Dimensional Stereo" logo that dates back to the glory days of vinyl LPs.