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lappiesm wrote:
I found myself for the first time ever forwarding tracks, something I never thought could happen with a Lene album. All artsist have an album they look back at and would rather forget. For me this is that album and will the first to collect dust. Still love your music Lene and I know you will bounce bach with your best album ever.!! |
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I agree to some extent. This album has its qualities, though!!
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I still think this is a really good album. There are some definite stronger songs, and some that aren't bad, but I feel I can't listen to them right now because they don't reflect where my life is at the moment.
Does that make sense?   Thats something I've always felt with Lene songs, all of them are listenable to me, but sometimes certain songs have so much meaning to me that I listen to them instead of others. I've been feeling so reflective over the past months, so 'Story of a Life' is often played on my ipod! When I was feeling really depressed, PMG was like my best friend I listened to every night. So, maybe, if I fall in love, several TTT songs will get on the playlist 
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Im honest had the cd in the car while driving to work hoping that the album will grow on me but again found myself forwarding tracks. Thats the great thing in life we are all different so if someone can take something positive for themselves from this album its great! 
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UP 
so the new member can easily find the topic
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Hi everybody,
I am Martin from Germany, I am new to this community and I'd like to comment Lene's recent album.
Well I've listened to it a few times and to be honest I can't get to it really. There are only few songs I really like. Such are Here We Are, Everything's Good, I'll Follow and Do you remember.
But all of the other songs I can't get used to. I don't compare with PMG. It was another time, she wrote those songs during her teenager period. My favourite one is still AD. The songs are deep in my heart and catch me whenever I listen to them.
LIAM has some wonderful songs either like Leave my Mind, Never to know, Wish I Could, It's True, Hope you're happy.
Long time I didn't like the rest but nowadays I listen to it and I can say: yes she has developed. She uses rock elements like in What if and How would it be.
In an interview with a German (Süddeutsche Zeitung) she said, TTT wasn't meant to be a commercial album, rather a singer-songwriter-album.
I don't mind the arrangements and the lyrics; but I don't like most of the melodies.
But every great artist has the right to make bad albums. I just think about Mark Knopfler - former singer and guitarist of Dire Straits - his album "Kill to get Crimson" was a desaster. But his recent album "Get Lucky" released in autumn 2009 is his greatest work ever.
I hope Lene's next album will sound as AD or LIAM again.
She should not copy PMG. It's a classic. It's unique.
But the mood of AD - it's so wonderful. A few days ago I was watching the DVD. Memories returned.
Long time I hadn't listened to PMG; a few days ago I was listening to Sitting Down Here again. I thought: Oh how funny! I remember again. There was a time when I was so crazy for that song.
But here in Germany I feel so lonely as a Lene's fan. The few communities had been closed after 2003.
They do play Sitting down here every day on any radio channel; but even AD had no real success here. So I was totally surprised about LIAM to be released. I was afraid they would not release it here because AD had little success only.
Well, I'll be hoping for better days. I'm comforting myself with AD and LIAM. Sometimes when I hear Marit Larssen, I think about Lene's beginnings ten years ago and I wonder will she experience the same like Lene did?
Or is she a replacement for her? Lene has done her work; now they try it with another young Norwegian girl.
Though there are so much different - Lene plays guitar, Marit plays the piano, one is blonde, one is brown-haired - they have some things in common: both are Norwegians, both are pretty young in their beginnings and both of them write their songs themselves.
But Marit Larssen is Marit Larssen; and Lene Marlin is Lene Marlin.
So far from myself. I hope I haven't written too much.
I'm looking forward to your answers.
Regards,
Martin alias Lene fan.
Edited by Lene fan on 10 February 2010 at 12:57am
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Hey Martin!
Herzlich Willkommen!
Mir geht's leider genau so....
ich fand die ganze platte enttäuschend.
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you never know... maybe in 2012 she'll release something amazing!! ......
LG
Aaron
(an englishman in Dortmund)
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Hi Aaron
still I love Lene for her work until now.
But remember, even in Italy the album reached place number 44 only.
Well, Germany cannot be an example for comparisons.
I've read on wikipedia that even PMG was on 76 only,
but AD reached number 59. Sitting down here reached 57.
I've also read some details about Marit Larsen (not Larssen). She plays the guitar and the piano either.
And her career started before she entered number one in Germany with "if a song could get me you". I need to tell I don't have any record of hers. But last year her song was being played on radio several times a day and the according clip was broadcast as well.
Well, the sound and her appearance remind me of Lene's appearance ten years ago.
Tastes of music are so different in so many countries.
Here in Germany, Lene never had found that basement like in Italy or in Norway. Unfortunately.
I've read an interview with Lene, printed shortly after or before release of TTT. The interview is called "The Lene School". She said, everybody in her record company thinks of her abroad and she covers her ears when they talk about it. She said, the success of PMG will never happen again. One reason for this point of view are the real numbers of sales of AD and LIAM, I guess. The other one is certainly her breakdown in 1999 in Taiwan and I guess she might be afraid of experiencing such things again.
While I think about that interview, I'm thinking about all the other young artists either who had just started. Especially about Amy MacDonald.
Here in Germany, people are used to reduce artists to one hit only. In the genre of German folk and Schlager music it's been usual for over 40 years now. But even in pop music they're used to play this game. This is one of the reasons why radio channels play Sitting down here everyday. But they do not play Lene's other songs.
Perhaps Lene made one little mistake: She used to release uptown songs as singles most times. Singles that reminded of Sitting down here and Where I'm headed. She never released a ballad. And there are many she could have. E.g. Flown Away, A Place Nearby, Faces, Leave my Mind, Never to Know (by the way, this song has the similar strings like Good Girl Gone Bad).
I hope her record company won't quit her record deal because of TTT (but it got gold in Norway) or won't stop delivering records to Germany because of her minor success here.
Thinking about her recent album and a possible future without Lene's music is making very sad.
But on 18th April, I'll be celebrating ten years Lene fan. That was the first time when I was listening to the complete album PMG in a record shop. I remember I had wet eyes and I was forgetting everything around me. That's what Lene's music had given me before TTT: Forgetting anything else around me and being in another world for about 40 minutes.
Regards,
Martin.
Edited by Lene fan on 10 February 2010 at 7:40pm
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Lene fan wrote:
Perhaps Lene made one little mistake: She used to release uptown songs as singles most times. Singles that reminded of Sitting down here and Where I'm headed. She never released a ballad. And there are many she could have. E.g. Flown Away, A Place Nearby, Faces, Leave my Mind, Never to Know (by the way, this song has the similar strings like Good Girl Gone Bad).
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That's a good point. Though Lene has a lot of great ballads in her albums, most of her singles are more or less "uptown", like you named them. I wonder why she has never chosen a "pure" ballad as a single. Even in LIAM, she chose as singles two of the most "uptown" songs in the album. And if there had been a third single, it would have been "Eyes closed" and not the brilliant "pure" ballad "It's true". Why is that? Even those artists whose main aim is to be played in the clubs usually release a ballad now and then!
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Hi FlyHigh_girl,
of course I mean upbeat songs, not uptown songs.
I've read in a dictionary: Even the word "either" was wrong.
I've set it as a replacement for "also" or "too" or as well.
But I've read it's an incorrect meaning.
But this community is a good opportunity for improving my English.
My advice for a single out of LIAM would have had been Leave my Mind.
It's one of those Lene's songs I even would play in front of friends or
people from my former school class. This song is a kind of breathtaking.
And everybody around me asks me "Oh?! Who's singing?"
The repeated sentences before the chorus indeed have a kind of ... thrill.
It's running down my spine. 
Another song containing such a breathtaking sequence is Faces.
"So/then look at me when I'm not aware". Wow! 
Or Fight against the Hours: "I know that if I lay down now ..."
Well, my experiences are, unfortunately you cannot play all Lene's songs
to everybody. E.g. Flown away or Fight against the Hours. Unthinkable for
us Lene's fans, but there are people who can't bear her high singing in
those songs. Especially people who rather listen to music like Red Hot Chili
Peppers or Green Day would rarely listen to Lene's songs. Anyhow it concerns
people in my environment. But Leave my Mind is a song I would play every time.
Have you had similiar experiences with Lene's music to anyone of your
friends or people you know or meet everyday?
By the way, some of Lene's songs has a positive effect on little children
who are crying and nervous and cannot calm down. I remember a few years
ago, my little nephew, three then, was restless and nervous. Suddenly
in the background, one of Lene's songs resounded, I remember it was
Playing my Game, acoustic version, and within a few minutes he calmed down.
He did not fall asleep but he was not crying anymore.
Funny!
Regards,
Martin.
Edited by Lene fan on 12 February 2010 at 9:56pm
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