An exclusive shot of Play during their time in NY
I have added some new pictures from Play’s trip to the United States earlier in the year to the gallery, sent to me exclusively from Emelie. She was also kind enough to send a new picture from their photoshoot as well. She is a very sweet girl and I hope her all the best in the future.
In case you didn’t know, Play worked with Glen Kulik when they were still together. Glen posted a comment on Play Mania about the show they were pitching to different TV channels, which you can read below.
For those of you who are still sad and still enjoy hearing further information about Play let me tell you about some television “facts” you might find interesting. In January, we were working with two television production companies on two separate concepts. With the first group we went to MTV. As I told you months ago, we had a first meeting in LA and MTV liked the girls enough that they wanted to meet with them and me alone in New York, so the girls and I flew to NY to have that second meeting just ourselves. Continue reading
As much as this saddens me, I will continue to support the girls in their solo careers and hope other Play fans do as well! I want to wish them good luck with everything they plan to do in the future. As for Sweet Voices, I will continue to update on the girl’s solo careers at least until the hosting and domain run out, which won’t be any time soon because there’s still almost a year left on that. I want to thank all the fans who continue to visit Sweet Voices, and let everyone know that because of this news there will be some changes to the site soon.
As many of you know, since last summer I have worked with Play in planning the group’s return to the U.S. this year. I am very sorry to tell you that what started out with such great promise has ended unexpectedly and unhappily, for the girls had a disagreement and broke up over it. Since it does not appear they are going to make any kind of statement I feel I owe it to you, the fans, to try to put this past year in some perspective so we can all have closure from what has been an emotional ten year roller coaster ride with this group. Continue reading
Back in August, Play held a concert at SIR Studios in Hollywood to showcase their talents to prospective record labels. They performed Too Lost In You, Famous, Not The One, and Trash.
Thanks to Courtney for uploading!
Below is a 5 minute video reel Play created to show television companies their acting skills and how they work together.
Play also sent a message about the video:
Hello, everyone. We thought you might enjoy seeing a five minute promotional reel which will show you a little bit of our acting abilities. This was produced to give MTV a sense of the look and feel our show might have on their network. The producers are using the title “The Girls Upstairs” at the present time. Whenever you hear us talk it is “in character” for the show. Sanne’s character is called “Sondra,” Anais is “Laila,” and Emelie is still Emelie. It was filmed mostly in different places around Beverly Hills. The roof top scenes are at the hotel where we stayed, the Thompson Beverly Hills (which was amazing). We hope you think this is fun and entertaining. Let us know!
If you head over to Play Mania, you can ask Play your questions and hopefully they will be answered by the girls! This is an unique opportunity, so it’s worth it to check it out.
This is really the first time we get to hear Play with new member Emelie Norenberg! Watch the video below:
Play has also sent us some info about this video:
We notice in the past few days many of you have commented that you would like to hear how we sounded during our recent trip to LA and NY. A clip has been posted on youtube of us performing the song Time of Your Life. We thought you might be interested in a little of the background. As many of you know, Play has always enjoyed performing acapellas and when we meet new people we usually perform in that manner so people can really hear how we sound. Three days before our recent trip we received a call from some of the television people with whom we are working stating that we had to be ready to perform the song Time of Your Life by Green Day. It was not a request, it is an order! So we quickly had to learn the words and create our own vocal arrangement. That is something which normally takes alot of time and practice, but in this case we only had three days. When we arrived in LA we were still perfecting the sound so we were a little unsure of ourselves. When we sang we alternated doing that song with Not The One and Too Lost In You. But the more we performed Time Of Your Life during the trip the more we liked it and became comfortable singing it. We would practice in the car on the way to our many meetings. The clip you will see on youtube was from the later part of our trip when we were in New York and by then we felt comfortable. The visual on this clip is not great but the accoustics in the room were good so the sound is good and it will give you a chance to hear how we sound. Another thing that was positive about this clip is the previous week when we were in LA Emelie had a cold for much of the week but she was feeling much better by the time we reached New York and so her voice was its normal strong and beautiful self. You may find it funny to see how bundled up we were since it was only 18 degrees in NY during that day, and we had just come from LA where it was 80 degrees and we were wearing shorts and were outside most of the time. Our next video we post will be from LA and you can see the contrast. You have a very interesting country, where it can be 80 degrees in one place while it is 18 degrees in another. Sweden is very small and at this time of year it is cold and dark everywhere.
Hope this gives you a little insight on the creation of our latest acapella and that you like it when you listen to the youtube clip. Thanks for all your continuing support.
Love, Sanne, Anais and Emelie
You can watch a video of Play singing the Sugababes song Too Lost In You below, along with some info about the video from Play:
Thanks for all the great suggestions for cover songs — you guys are really amazing. We are going to take some time to listen to the songs we are not familiar with and once any decisions are made we’ll let you know.
We have posted another song on youtube, and the link is below. This one is Too Lost In You. It was performed at the home of David Von Ancken the morning after we arrived in LA recently. As you can see it was a beautiful day and we were in his backyard where he made us a great breakfast and we discussed business. David is a writer and director who works on Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl and Californication. He also wrote and is set to direct the new movie Eminem is going to star in soon that you may have read about. He asked us to sing a couple of songs for him and this is one of them. We had a fun morning with David, his manager Seth, producer Ned Nalle (who is a former president of Universal Television) and Bruce Sandzimier who is head of post production for the ABC television network. We had a great time that morning and hope you enjoy this version of Too Lost In You. By the way, we noticed a few of you suggested we do an actual recording of the song as our cover — an idea we certainly will consider.
Love, Emelie, Sanne, and Anais
A happy and confident Play
Play has sent this message to Play Mania, giving us some idea of what their plan is for their future musical direction:
Wow, the results of yesterday’s poll were so interesting to us — thanks to everyone who took the time to respond.. It shows the dilemma we face — there are fans for all of the songs so it is hard to get a consensus on which three would be best. We have the same problem. For example, we personally like “Under My Skin” alot but some others have counseled us not to include that track. The good news is, for any song that does not make the actual EP, we will try to see that it is at least posted on iTunes so everyone can purchase his or her favorite tracks no matter what.
Since it was so nice of you to give us your feedback we’d like to answer some of your questions. First, any song on the EP will have Emelie’s voice on it for legal, professional and fairness reasons. Not only that, we are likely to remix the songs so they have a less guitar-driven sound and are a bit more current for the North American market. Some of you also asked about Destiny, yes, that song is a possibility for the EP but we would need Disney’s approval since that is a song they control. We would like to add Emelie’s voice to the song and start to perform it. We are well aware that thousands of people on the internet have asked about when and how they can buy the song. If Disney does not post it themselves then we will do our best to post it whether or not it is on our EP. On another subject, we have a number of acapella songs on video now but since they are live and mostly recorded outdoors in different settings the sound varies in quality just as with the videos you saw of us performing in different locations last year. We will release something to you very soon so you can hear how we sound.
To answer one final question, you should not assume Emelie will be singing Fanny’s parts. All three of us will sing lead sections as has occurred this past year on different songs, but when it comes to the ad libs and the harmonies you are more likely to hear Sanne sing those parts with Emelie singing the high harmonies (somewhat like Rosie used to do) and Anais singing the lower harmonies. We think you will be very happy with how our voices fit together, and for those of you who have not had a chance to hear what Sanne is capable of you might just be very surprised.
Hope this answers most of your questions for now. We’ll have more important issues we hope you will help us with which we will pose to you very soon, and we will also post video footage. Our reel that we are preparing for MTV is almost done and we are excited about it. We will tell you more about MTV soon.
Love, Emelie, Sanne and Anais.
Play has finally introduced their newest member, Emelie Norenberg, via Play Mania:
Play as Emelie, Anaïs, and Sanne
We would like to introduce you to the newest member of Play, Emelie Norenberg. Emelie and Sanne have been best friends for many years, and Emelie is also a close personal friend of Anais and Rosie. Fanny decided she did not want to be in the group anymore and we were very fortunate Emelie was there to step in because as you know we were in the middle of so many important things relative to our return to the U.S. Emelie has done an amazing job during all our meetings and we know if you give her a chance you will love her as we do. We are in the middle of many exciting discussions right now in the television and music worlds which we will tell you about soon. We hope you will go on this journey with us which starts right now. We will be updating regularly and are working on our own sites which will be up soon.
Love, Play
