R. I. P. Marie, we all miss you. Hope you found peace in heaven.

Finally!!! She was such a great singer. You will love the following songs: Joyride !!!! Dangerous Fading like a flower

You grew up with Natalie Imbruglia and I grew up with this! The 80’s were so much fun as a kid. My first crush was Morten Harket lead singer of A-Ha. I connect to 80’s music very emotionally. Thank you for this!

Marie s voice is still today one of the best!

Roxette is the 2nd biggest music export from Sweden (1# is ABBA). It's a duo that was active from the 80's until 2016, when the singer, Marie Fredriksson, was too ill to continue touring. She had battled cancer (brain tumor) since 2002 and she sadly passed away in 2019. 💔🕯

Roxette were an awesome duo and it’s heartbreaking that we lost Marie to cancer after a massive 10 year battle …. RIP & hope you’re out of pain now xxxxx She had such a unique and beautiful voice too 🎵🎼🎷🎶❤️❤️❤️🥃❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼NMHRK NMHRK NMHRK

It must have been love!! 👏👏

Such a beautiful voice gone far too soon 😢 R.I.P. Miss Marie 🙏✌️

Fantastic song, fantastic singer ...say no more , this one is made to be listen forever 🎉

I love Roxette! "Fading like a Flower" and "Spending my Time" are also very touching and "It must have been love" from the Pretty Woman movie. They also have fun songs like "Big Thing" and "Joy Ride", and of course their big hit "The Look"

I've loved this song since '88. Still adore it. One song I've never got bored of, ever. Hope you check out more of Roxette! 😁

R.I.P Marie Fredriksson your voice will allways be with us even though you have left us.

You NEEEED to listen to 'Fading like a flower'!

One of my favorite song 🤩🤩🤩

Super groupe...she's got the look...Roxette

This was written by Per Gessle (the male half of Roxette), so, yes, Roxette were the original singers of this masterpiece! There are 37 covers of this song.

"The Look"...Im just saying👍👍

Love seeing young people discover music from before they were born. RIP Marie thank you for your music.

Amazing group. Lost her too soon

Hi Dereck. I recommend Roxette's hits Crash! Boom! Bang! and I Wish I Could Fly that are fabulous pop rock ballads. Take care.

Roxette was an amazing band❤️

Roxette was a really good band with lot of nice songs. It must have been love and The look were their most famous songs. I do like these calm ones better. Queen of Rain, Spending My Time and Fading Like A Flower are three of them. Thank you for a great reaction!

Our national treasure in 🇸🇪 Rip Marie you’re dearly missed taken too soon

Superb absolutely incredible best performance this live Real shame marie has passed massively missed a big part of my growing up and memories R.I.P MARIE

They have a lots ,such as : keep me waiting, things will be the same, do yo get exited, chances, hotblooded,what she s like, surrender,i love of crashing guitars..

Wow, 11th grade all over again!!! Joyride and Fading like a Flower are probably her best songs. She had such a cool look for the late 80s/early 90s, too.

Their best song is Fading like a flower, listen to that one soon 👍🏻

YES!!! THANKS A LOT FOR SUCH AN AMAZING REACTION VIDEO! I love this song very much and will always do because it is a real pop-rock masterpiece. You will certainly like many otehr Roxette songs, truly worthy!

This song is used in many commercials. Every one knows the song without ever having properly listened to it before. Ah about the singer, you know, she's got the look ;)

Dereck, thank you for sharing this song and your reaction. Childhood memories are kickin in🤗 R.I.P. Marie

So good to see Roxette on your chanel! They are legends!

🤩😍I saw them LIVE in June of '91 in Boston, during their "Join The Joyride! World Tour" ‼.....and by the way, this video was shot in an old Swedish castle.🏰💛💙 They are my Nº 2 favorite act from Sweden, after my Nº 1 😘💕ABBA..........................my Nº 3 is Ace Of Base, and my Nº 4 is Europe.

Oh yeah, I had a great childhood. 80s in school/ teenager and the 90s when I was at the university. The time in my life where I visited the disco 💃 a lot.

The video was shot in the Borgholm Castle ruin on the swedish island Öland. In the beginning you see the Öland bridge, that conects the island to the mainland. 🏛🏰

Marie Fredriksson had a very much darker songwriting mood and tended to jazz and blues in her own music. (she was a huge solo artist in Sweden first). Per Gessle wrote most of the songs for Roxette and he is a 4 chord pop melody genius. From memory he wrote this one about a friend contemplating divorce.

When this song came out, I heard it on repeat. Also all German radio stations played it around the clock. Still one of my Roxette favorites! And this video/concert scene is just ace 🧡

Truly missed but her legacy speaks for itself vocal wise second to none brilliant xx

I've loved Roxette ever since they first hit the charts with 'The Look' way back in the late 80's! Marie had the most exquisite voice. It was a sad sad day when she passed.

"Linsten to Your Heart" is really a Roxette's BIG hit !

ROXETTE 4ever!!! Please more Roxette reactions. Roxette has so many great songs.

I Love this song.

@Dereck Reacts : well, there are three versions of this masterpiece that came out at the same year. The first one is the album version. The second one is the swedish single edit. Both are the same but the first has a strings fade out you'll find only in the album. The swdish single edit is the most known of the three and i bet that you have this one in your mind that you've heard in the past. Now, the version used for the video, is the US Single Version wich came out for the american radio broadcasters. It's a little shorter and it uses different electric piano arrangement. The vocals used on the three versions are the same. extra-info for you: the video was shot at the Borgholm Castle in Sweden. Roxette played at that day a complete concert and two videos were shot at the same day. Listen to your heart was the first and the second was Dangerous

Marie the singer and the guitarist were married until her passing RIP 🙏Marie. Thank you for reacting to them. Much love to you and your family 💕Brandi Modrak 💕❤

Thank you for another great video reaction!🌷🌷🌷🌷 Marie's voice was something else❤ It's from a concert at the Borgholm castle ruin at the island of Öland, you see the bridge going over there in the beginning. Summer concerts there are beautiful because the sun hardly goes down. The Swedish Royal family has their summer residence there and always casually attends the concerts. Our Crown Princess and future Queen has her birthday in the middle of July and there's a great birthday musical tribute held yearly in her honour on Öland.

Thank you Dereck! Roxette have many iconic songs thanks to Marie’s voice and Per’s song writing skills. Check out The Look and It Must Have Been Love. From Marie’s solo career there’s also Sparvöga (Sparrow’s Eye).

My Roxette favourite would be "Fading like a flower", closely followed by "It must have been love." They are at their best with the power ballads. Marie Fredriksson had such energy and emotion in her voice. She also had that edge that you talk about, that i think often may have been overlooked just because there's such beauty to her vocals.

From the album (Look Sharp). If it wasn't for an American exchange student buying this album then giving it to his local radio station back in the US to play this album would've flopped so we all have a lot to be grateful for towards that student.

I love roxette I still have the cassette ❤️

This live version is very unbelievable !!! I love it !!!

I recommend my 2 personal favourites of theirs, Queen Of Rain & Vulnerable

Great group with great songs! She is missed by fans.

It's amazing how Roxette aren't remembered better than they are given that they had 4 no 1 Billboard hits. It was likely that they were at their biggest at a time when other genres dominated like grunge and alternative rock.

I love her voice.

I miss Marie 😢🌹 Dereck, you should also react to Roxette's Fading Like a Flower❤️🌹

Roxette greatest hits: "The Look" (from Look Sharp!, 1988) 3:57 "Dressed for Success" (US Single Mix; from Look Sharp!) 4:11 "Listen to Your Heart" (Swedish Single Edit; from Look Sharp!) 5:14 "Dangerous" (Single Version; from Look Sharp!) 3:49 "It Must Have Been Love" (from the Pretty Woman soundtrack, 1990) 4:19 "Joyride" (Single Edit; from Joyride, 1991) 4:02 "Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)" (from Joyride) 3:53 "Spending My Time" (from Joyride) 4:35 "How Do You Do!" (from Tourism, 1992) 3:11 "Sleeping in My Car" (Single Edit; from Crash! Boom! Bang!, 1994) 3:34 "Crash! Boom! Bang!" (Single Edit; from Crash! Boom! Bang!) 4:26 "Run to You" (from Crash! Boom! Bang!) 3:38 "Wish I Could Fly" (from Have a Nice Day, 1999) 4:42 "Stars" (from Have a Nice Day) 3:58 "Milk and Toast and Honey

Grande banda

Roxette's greatest hits is just brilliant song after brilliant Song. Look Sharp their debut album was my teenage years. RIP Marie, you will be GREATLY missed.

Hi there great reaction again Check out "Dangerous" by them, for some reason it's one of my favorites... Greetings from Sweden

LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH. VOCALS, LYRICS, INSTUMENTALS. SOOOO GOOD. BILLY BOY

The American 🇺🇸 media thought the castle had been built especially for the video

When this song was out they wouldn't stop playing it. You couldn't get away from it for 5 years and it was the best damn song going, every single time. Even after metal went out it the 99s it still sounded kick ass. I never stopped loving this song.

Roxette Joyride is the best album.

Hi Dereck, I note you often play French pop (soft) music but there are 2 very outstanding songs which unfortunately do not have video clips. First is Les Variations - Down the road and the 2nd one, Jupiter Sunset - Back in the sun. I can guarantee you, you’ll be blown away as well as all people watching your channel. .

R.I.P Marie Fredriksson❤️❤️❤️ one of Sweden's biggest voices

Sweden had at least 4 awesome musical exports: ABBA Roxette Ace Of Base Robyn

They have such a wide variety songs to react to! It just happens (the last video to feature Marie before she passed), Spending my time, Anyone, Dangerous, Touched by the hand of God... And the list goes on 👌❤️

hello Dereck nice night, I recommend you listen, "spending My time" and its version in Spanish " un día sin ti", you will like it Saludos desde Oaxaca, México.

The chords and cadence on the chorus are straight out of Heart’s Alone.

Wonderful voice song singer sound

If you like Midnight Oil, you should hear to "Put down that weapon" from "Diesel an Dust"

Did you know Natalie Imbruglia started out on the same Aussie soap, Neighbours, as Kylie Minogue, here in Melbourne, Australia? (Also Delta Goodrem was in Neighbours as well)

Please, do "Fadeing Like a Flower", also by Roxette

Per Gessle - probably the greatest song writer of Sweden! Yeah, ABBA has sold more, but compared to the amout of songs Per has written, everyone else pale in comparison. The castle in the video, by the way, is a real castle in Sweden.

DHT covered This song in the 2000....Love this song. Rip Roxette 💔

That voice 🤩🤩 RIP

More ROXETTE! The Video is Great before drones, all is helicopters. RIP Marie. That "husky" tone...

ThE y have a lot great songs

While Roxette is not a favourite of mine, Swedes definitely made a big part of the best music of all time

Marie Fredriksson is awesome. Sad she had a very difficult cancer and passed away in 2019. At least she got spared by Covid and will live on forever through her amazing music.

Greatt band

♥

Art bro

for me, i have always kind of felt like Roxette and Cher have similar vibe. yes and Natalie too... kind of a rabbit hole of female vocal superpowers!! i love it!

Please react to Fading Like a Flower, my favorite ❤

Si si quiero mas roxette

If you heard the song before, DHT covered the song a few years back, but their cover was LAME-ASS! Marie Fredriksson was the BEST!

D.H.T. has a more recent version that gets played on dance radio quite a bit...I'm guessing you heard that version.

React to lady gaga hold my hand please

Torn was a banger and a fakking half. I was like 15 and a metal head so I couldnt admitt to liking it but whenver I heard it somewhere I suddnely needed to tie my shoes or some other BS that held us up for a few minutes xD I dont even remember what shen looks like but I have a destinct memory of finding her very pretty.

If at all, Natalie Imbruglia was influenced by Roxette. 😉 This is a timeless classic, probably one of their best songs! You recognize good music, when it still works more than 30 years later. RIP Marie! We miss you!

RIp Marie

Derek D.H.T I think did a dance version of this song in the 2000's, it's good but nothing like this version

Surprised dereck didn't mention abba's new song "I can be that women" where they borrowed a piece of the song's sound

What country are you from that you have never heard this song before? After all, it was a worldwide hit, still played on the radio to this day

fan depuis 1989

roxette was a very, very good group i saw them live once in frankfurt perfect great concert, it's a shame that marie has already died. Marie once recorded a song with Frida von Abba, the Swedes can do it.

Bin 60 Jahre alt, war und bin großer ABBA FAN,,als ROXETTE kam ,war ich enttäuscht. Es kam eine neue Band aus 🇸🇪 und die beiden waren SOOOO toll !!👍👍👍 MARIE AND FRIDA haben sogar einen Song gemeinsam aufgenommen !!! IN MEMORY DEAR MARIE 💔😭😭

🤩😍💐💐💖💖💖

Enough about Marie, (no offense, she’s AMAZING) but Per is a genius in his own right. My first exposure to him was when he put the Dorothy Parker poem “Threnody” to music for Frida’s first English album, “Something’s Going On”. He is a prolific songwriter and can create ear worms on the same par as Benny and Bjorn although his lyricism is rather banal and lacks the storytelling of the fore mentioned above. His solo album “World According to Gessle” stands as one of the greatest collection of pop music in existence. Now back to Marie, you may want to check out “Alla Mina Basta Ar” on Frida’s final solo album, “Djupa Andetag” where Marie sings duet with Frida. Frida first asked Agnetha to sing with her but Agnetha declined for fear that it would incite reunion rumors (perish the thought). The two sound great together. It’s worth a reaction !

i think you should react to “Givin' A Little Bit More” by ABBA, a demo was recorded during the sessions of “The Visitors” in '81, it was never completed and never released, but a fan made version was completed and released, go check it out, you’ll thank me later hahaha