Are you
obsessed too? Well, you are not alone (though it does seem like it sometimes!)
Here
is a list of some of the crazy things that fans do!
If you
have done something weird in the name of obsession for Roxette, email
it to me!
OBSESSED THINGS THAT FANS DO
* When I was
15 I used to cut my hair like Marie's and bleach it blonde (Sparvöga)
* When I saw
the video for Silver Blue and Marie was wearing those black canvas sneakers,
I searched
all the shoe stores to find the same sneakers! (Sparvöga)
* I talked about
them so much in high school that everybody called me "The Roxette Girl"
- even some
kids I didn't know! (Sparvöga)
* I'm thinking
of getting a tattoo... (Sparvöga)
* I became famous
at two radio stations by ringing up every night to talk about Roxette (Sparvöga)
* Once on the
radio the DJ said Marie had a tragic haircut so I rang up and yelled at
her until she went
on air to apologise for insulting Marie (Sparvöga)
* I wear Roxette
T-shirts to college even though I get laughed at (Sparvöga)
* I rang my
friends to tell them when Marie had a baby (Sparvöga)
* I've been
saving money for years to go to Sweden, when I could use the money for
a car (Sparvöga)
* I won a Roxette
lookalike contest (Sparvöga)
* I made a website
called The Marie Fredriksson Worship Page! (Sparvöga)
* When I saw
MTV Unplugged, I asked everybody for a hat like Marie's, until my boyfriend
gave me
one. And I started to use it as Marie...(June Cooper)
* I'll get a
tattoo soon! (June Cooper)
* When I saw
"How do you do" I bought the same shoes as her... (June Cooper)
* I'll probably
name my first born daughter Gun Marie (Sparvöga)
* I changed
my name to Marie (Marie)
* When I saw
Roxette live for the first time, out of 100 photos only three didn't have
Marie in them (James)
* My ambition
is to get every Marie song ever recorded (James)
* I always blow
all my wages on Marie-records even if it means going the rest of the month
without food,
drink,
clothes or anything else (James)
* Whenever anyone
mentions Per Gessle I always say "Who?" (no offence PG!) (James)
* I always sing
along to Marie on Roxette songs, even when it's backing vocals only (James)
* I'm saving
to go to Sweden just in case she decides to do a solo-tour there in the
next few years (James)
* I always refer
to Roxette as "she" or "her" :-) (James)
* Whenever anyone
asks me for suggestions of what to name their baby/cat/dog/goldfish/iguana,
I
*always* say "Marie"... (James)
* The most obsessed
thing I did was put all my college stuff in my locker one day after college
was over, get
changed in the middle of the corridor, walk to the train station, meet
my best Rox-friend, catch a
train to London, find the TV studio, queue for 4 HOURS (standing up), get
in the studio, battle to get to
the front, stand for another 2 hours, then watch Marie perform WICF with
Roxette for 4 minutes (she
smiled at me and raised her eyebrows because I was screaming so loud and
jumping about and waving), then
go outside just in time to see them go off in a car, get the train home,
and get home at 3.30am. I then got
up 3 hours later to go to college the next day.... But it was worth
it! (James)
Very
big thanks to June Cooper and James for her help with this page!