When was listen to your heart made

Too much ballad, and your crossover potential may shrink. Too much power could leave the listener buffeted, like receiving a hug from a hurricane.

Both sides of the Atlantic were enjoying the golden age of power ballads, as a series of hard-rock and glam-metal acts dialed down the volume, upped the melody, and queued at the ATM.

Roxette, though, were pop-rockers, with a typically Swedish approach to the craft. We really wanted to see how far we could take it. Fredriksson herself split into a multitude, tracking earnest backing vocals to match the liturgic synthesized organ.

Clearly, they had listened to their Heart. Having broken America without trying, the duo might have been stuck for a follow-up. But Gessle and Fredriksson, each a success in their home country, were made for the moment: He once fronted the chart-topping, heartland power pop act Gyllene Tider; she was a sort of business-minded punk, the only constant member of a band that released just one single but founded a multi-year music festival.

EMI also issued a mix with a fake saxophone, about which no more should be said. Gessle with his old Gyllene Tider bandmate Mats Persson penned the song after a long conversation with a friend, on the brink of divorce, but pondering a new relationship.

When it came time to make the requisite video, they were similarly sure-footed: Rather than, say, trot Fredriksson gloomily through castle rooms, they filmed a mini-concert using the castle as backdrop and a helicopter for visual flavor. Director Doug Freel presented them as the stars they were, with frequent cuts to Gessle whirling his guitar about and Fredriksson pumping her fist atop a riser, standing nearly as high as her hair.

It did so without being sold as a 45, a Billboard first. It was 1 for just one week, but became a soft-rock staple: by the song had approached 5,, spins on US radio. Live, the two took to presenting the song in an au courant unplugged arrangement. The song was sturdy enough to scale down - so sturdy, a Belgian dance-music duo called D. Fredriksson was in attendance as well, in her first public appearance since a diagnosis of brain cancer. The music video for the track was filmed during a live concert Roxette gave at the ruined Borgholm Castle, which also added to the almost-fairy tale quality of the song.

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