This is just to clear up any confusion! Today I signed into Facebook and had a notification that Play posted a concert near me (in New York, New York).
If any of you guys also got this notification on Facebook or iLike, it of course is not the Swedish Play. I looked up this other Play on AmieStreet.com, and I'm pretty sure that this is the Play they are talking about. News, questions, comments? Email me - lisaplaymania@aol.com
Starting on December 8th, you can now view a backstage video of the shoot of the new MQ commercial (Give A Little Bit) with Faye! You have to scroll down the page a bit to see the video.
Click the image below to go to the site.
I have also added a link to Faye's Synk Casting Profile to the Quick Links section on the side.
Huge thanks to Ceylone for the news and links!
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There is an article out about Alice, one of the Swedish Idol finalists, who is concerned that the judges have already found their superstar - Janet Leon.
Thanks to Ashley for e-mailing this to me and to FixYou on the Playful-Play boards for the find and English translation of part of the article.
If you would like to read the whole article please click the photo above!
English translation by FixYou: "Tonight we'll know who will be in the finale of Idol 2008. But the jury has already found their Swedish superstar - 18 year old Janet Leon who's not even in the contest. Alice is now concerned that the jury is trying to get her out of the way of their own star."
'I know that they (the jury) doesn't want me to sing Pop and RnB songs. That's my style but that style is also Janet's so of course, they don't want me and Janet to have the same style,' says Alice."
And Laila says: "That's the most stupid thing I have ever heard. It's a shame that she believes in rumours she hears. But of course, she is still young."
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Here is a picture of Rosanna that was found by Erika, owner of the Playful-Play boards! Thank you to Ashley from Classique for e-mailing it to me!
Also, how many of you guys have been watching or keeping up to date with Swedish Idol? I believe there are only 3 contestants left now! Of course we can't watch it here in the states, so I check the web site to see what's going on.
I still think it was so great that Laila was a (quite big) part of this! :)
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Play Around the Christmas Tree has been re-released through Music World Productions on October 28th, 2008. The whole album is available for download on iTunes and various other sites.
You can also add and listen to all of the songs through Myspace! It's perfect timing since the holidays are right around the corner. :)
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Thanks so much to Erin and ateensonline.com for this info about the new MQ commercial and the song used in the commercial! Click the image below to go to the web site to see two of MQ's new commercials.
Faye is shown in both of the videos. The first video is a bit longer than the second. There are 9 commercials in total. You can also see a larger version of the commercial at MQ's Official Site.
The following information is from ateensonline.com: "Last time was 2005 when Marie did a Christmas commercial together with Andreas Wilson. Now she's doing it again. Together with 15 other artists she's singing Supertramps hit ”Give a Little Bit”. The campaign starts today, November 26th, and MQ is hoping for good response. The single will be available for downloading and money will be given to Röda Korset (The Red Cross)."
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Faye is featured in yet another MQ commercial, and her biography can be found on their website. Click here to check it out!
Here is somewhat of an English translation of the article.
Fanny Hamlin "I want to give my family good health so that they’ll always be healthy and stay close to me” The singer Fanny Hamlin from Enskede, Stockholm, is something of an musical wonderchild. Only twenty years old and she’s already got a career behind her as an international teen star with the group Play, who were signed to the American Columbia Records, not to mention the legendary Tommy Mottola as manager. She got tired of her life as an idol in the US and moved back to Sweden to complete her interrupted gymnasium education (secondary education). As a side job, she’s also worked as a model.Presently, Fanny has put aside the idol career and is currently working with fashion in Whyred (a brand).
“At the moment, I’m just singing for fun with my friends, but I do intend to revive my idol career someday, and the goal is to be able to live on it, of course."
Fanny has been “extremely interested in fashion.” Lately, she’s been adjusted with a different attitude to fashion, which has also become her occupation.
“You get affected by the styles and it becomes different as you grow more familiar with it, even if I don’t follow the new trends obsessively. Getting snowbound (getting deeper) by what you’re doing with can easily happen as well, but I’ve always liked Whyred. Otherwise I like to doll myself up. I don’t own any jeans as I like to walk around in skirts and dresses – and chino pants. Folded chinos are my thing at the moment. It’s sort of gives the preppy look that I like that I’ll continue with for a while.”
A huge thank you to TayTay for e-mailing me the information and the translation, and to Mae for the updated English translation and link! News, questions, comments? Email me - lisaplaymania@aol.com
Ashley, the owner of Classique (a fansite for Janet), has received some news from Janet herself about her upcoming album! Hey Ashley! It's so hard to say stuff, with Laila and everyone being the Idol jury. They've got so much press on them all the time. What i can say is that there is going to be ALOT when everything finally comes out. We got enough songs for 3 albums (And they're all good:O) But we've kept pushing and pushing it, to get more hits. We're working up a storm that's gonna blow people away. (Don't mean to sound so kocky (or is it spelled cocky? it just feels like it's referring to something else than what i mean haha) I am soso happy that you guys are still around. I'm actually amazed by your incredible patience, since I know how easy it is to lose interest while waiting for things. So thank you for sticking with me!!! I love you all! You're not gonna be disappointed. Happy Holidays to you too! It's snowing outside my window, it's so beautiful ♥ J Thanks Ashley for sharing this with us! :) News, questions, comments? Email me - lisaplaymania@aol.com
There is an article about Janet on the web site, hotgossip.se. I don't know what the article says since it's in Swedish, but it was posted on October 23rd of this year, so I figured it's pretty recent! If anyone would care to translate this, please e-mail me or leave a comment on this post! The English translation of the article is below!
Click the photo below to go to the article.
*Emily was nice enough to translate the article to English for us! Thank you so much!
"Janet Leon was formerly with the Swedish girl group Play, which was produced by Laila Bagge. Laila is familiar in this year’s Idol jury.
Now Laila along with Anders Bagge and Andreas Carlsson have formed a new company in which Janet is a solo artist, states Metro (name of company).
Many say she is projected to become another great female international mega star and online, there are clips showing Andreas Carlsson, together with Janet, while she works together with Black Eyed Peas producers and sings acapella with mega star Wycelf Jean.
According to Metro, they do not want any of the Idol-Jury to talk about Janet yet, so to avoid losing focus on this year’s participants in Idol."
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Today, Rosanna is featured on Popjustice.com's front page with a great write up! Her song Gameboy is the site's song of the day! Check it out at their site.
Thanks so much to Ashleigh for sending me this information. She says that this web site is one of the most popular UK music sites! It's great to see that Rosanna is gaining the recognition she (as do the other girls) deserve!
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"Check out pictures ofChris Trousdale (Dream Street) and Anna Sundstrand (Play) promoting the upcoming novel "Lost In You" by Sandy Lo.
Sandy Lo is StarShine Magazine's editor and a long time friend of both pop stars. Chris and Anna will be supporting Sandy in her writing career by appearing at her book signing in Staten Island, NY in April 2009. Details to come.
Sandy Lo is also teaming up with Anna Sundstrand ona book about the struggles of the entertainment industry. The book will be based off Anna's life and experiences. Go to Sandy's website: http://www.sandy-lo.com/ and click on her blog to see the pics."
Thank you to Maria for sending in this information! This is all the info I have!
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Happy Birthday, Janet! Wishing Janet Leon a very happy 18th birthday today! Head over to her official Myspace to leave her some birthday wishes! She is a great girl and I am excited to see what the future will hold for her.. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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Rosanna has added THREE NEW SONGS and a new video to her Myspace page!
The songs are called Flashing Lights, Heartattack, and Gameboy.
This is really awesome, I'm so excited! Please make sure to head on over to her Myspace to listen to the songs and check out the video, along with two new photos Rosanna put up!
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Myspace has recently added a new Music Player option for us to add on our profiles. You can add up to ten songs, and there are a lot of Play songs available including some rare songs such as: Boys Lie, To Live and to Die For, etc.
You can also add some of Rosanna's songs as well. :)
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Play fan TayTay e-mailed me this article and photo of Faye in the streets of Stockholm, having to do with her unique clothing style.
Fanny Hamlin, 20, vendors: The shoes come from one secondhandbutik in Madrid, the jean is from Whyred, the coat and the bag have I bought on Filippa K, the scarf is from H&M and the cap from the hat bar.
Click here to see the actual article, which of course, is in Swedish. :)
Thank you TayTay! Remember, if any of you guys ever come across some recent articles of photos of any of the girls, please send them over.
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From what I understand, Swedish Idol will premire this month on TV4 (maybe it already has?) - as I've said, it's hard to understand since I don't understand Swedish! lol. If someone wants to help out with what's on the site that is in Swedish, you can leave a comment on this post or e-mail me.
News has been a little slow lately, I know. In the meantime, be sure to check out all of the older updates in case you've just recently found this Blogspot again, to catch up on all of the girls' current projects!
I never updated about these two new pictures on Rosanna's Myspace, so here they are! :)
I also found this picture on my computer, from the "Tricks" music video shoot.
Rosanna also has a few tour dates up on her Myspace, so check those out. I think they're all in Sweden, though. :(
Here are two great videos of Rosanna and Kocky in concert. The first video is them performing "4-ever Juvenile", and the second video is them performing "Oh!"
I really love these videos! What do you guys think?
"4-ever Juvenile" Youtube says the video has been removed by the user. :\
Lately I have been receiving e-mails and messages about the old Play-Mania.com. There is a site called archive.org, where you can actually take a look at Play-Mania from it's beginning all the way up until last summer.
Though not all of the pages work the right way, a lot of information and pictures have been archived by this amazing "Way Back Machine." You can choose different years/months/days to look at.
Five years ago today, Play's sophomore album, Replay, was released. The girls also performed on Live! with Regis and Kelly, and it was also the last time I saw Play perform live with Faye here in New York. Can you believe it's been so long? I can't!
If you want to, share your thoughts on Replay as a comment. It was such a great album! Sometimes it's nice to think back! What's your favorite song? Music video? Share! :)
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Verizon customers can still purchase "I Must Not Chase the Boys" and "Aint No Mountain High Enough" as their ringback tone (ANMHE can also be purchased as a regular ringtone). Unfortunetly, I have a T-Mobile Sidekick. :P
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Anna Sundstrand and Chris Trousdale sang "If Only" together at showcases and also shot a music video for it a while ago. A fan put the studio recorded song on Youtube back in April, along with the lyrics. Some of you may have found this already, but here it is for those who haven't!
Thanks to Tasha for sending this to me on Myspace!
I was on iTunes and found that Kocky and Rosanna actually released a single just for the song Tricks in October 2007. The Tricks single comes with three versions of the song: Tricks (Radio Edit), Tricks (Kocky & Trash Remix), and Tricks (Krames Club Remix).
Check it out on iTunes by clicking the image below! I absolutely love the remixes, especially the Kocky & Trash Remix! Much different than the original song!
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On the Disney Cruise Ship in 2007, there was a performance of Hercules the Musical and they danced to a remix of Play's I Must Not Chase the Boys! The song starts at about 4:10 and goes until the end of the video. If you don't want to watch the whole video, just drag the bar until it's around that time.
Anna's IMDB profile has been updated with a few pictures. There is one up that I haven't seen before! It also says that "Sacred Journey" has been completed.
Click the image below to check out her IMDB profile!
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Rosanna has added "Oh!" and "Fast Car" to her Myspace profile! Make sure to add one of them as your Myspace song! Click the image below to go to her profile.
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I was just searching the web and came across a site with videos from Swedish Idol, the Swedish version of American Idol, where Laila Bagge is one of the judges. Click the photo above to check out a video where the man speaks to Laila, Anders Bagge, and Andreas Carlsson! It would be so much easier if we could understand Swedish! ;)
If you would like to see the main page for Swedish Idol 2008, click here.
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Yesterday, May 13th, Anna attended the Women's Health "Down to Earth" event in NYC! She sent me a link to a few photos from her arrival to the event. Click here to check them out!
I was searching for some information about the event, and came across a few more pictures of Anna from WireImage. Click here for those.
Thanks so much to Anna for sending this info! :)
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Kocky had posted this blog back in April, but he mentions Rosanna in it!! Here is the part of his blog that mentions her:
"Me and Rosanna wrote the song melody and lyrics in her ridiculously hot and humid appartment. At the time the both of us was very into Fergies "Glamorous", I (discovering the song a bit late I have to admit) loved the Polow the Don-produced original while Rosanna (of course) listened to some electro house remix. I wasn't crazy about the remix, but I liked the idea of mixing pop/rnb with a harder dance track.
Coming up with the lyrics was by far the most difficult part about writing the song, making it fun and "edgy" without being corny. I sincerely hope we pulled it off. Rosanna really put in effort, googling car models for the second verse."
Kocky actually has "Oh!" available on his Myspace, so if you want to add it as your Myspace song, you can! ;)
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Rosie has posted a new blog on her Myspace about Stadium Status. There is also a video in her blog entry to check out if you have not seen it already. It's her and Kocky in the studio during the making of Stadium Status. Click here to check out the blog entry on her Myspace! Leave her some kudos and comments. ;)
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Hey guys! So unfortunately, that is not Anna in Metro Station's music video for "Shake It" (scroll down below to see the update about it from yesterday). Though Anna does agree that the girl in the music video does kind of look like her!
Just thought I would clear that up!
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Rosanna is actually on four songs on Kocky's new album, Stadium Status! The songs she sings by herself are called "Fast Car" and "Oh!" She is also on "We're Back" and "Promise 2 Call." You can listen to clips and buy the songs off of iTunes. Click the picture below to check them out!
Rosanna actually co-wrote"Oh!","We're Back" and "Promise 2 Call"! (How awesome is that?!)
The song that Rosanna performed with Kocky in the video I posted a few days ago is not originally sung by her on Kocky's album, but she performed it live with him. I personally love the song, so I bought it from iTunes also! It's called 4-ever Juvenile.
Rosie said she has been really busy in the studio working on a lot of songs. Hopefully I will bring you guys news on that when it becomes available!
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In Metro Station's music video for "Shake It", there is a girl in it who looks identical toAnna. What do you guys think? Click the picture below to watch the video on Myspace!
Thanks to Shelby for bringing this to my attention! I am going to try and find out if this is actually Anna or not. If it is, that would be so awesome! And if it's not, that girl looks so much like her it's scary!
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So I was just on Youtube, and I came across this video from a user I am subscribed to - it's a pretty recent performance video of Rosie and Kocky, but the song is one I have never heard before. Check it out!
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If you go to LimitedToo.se, there are a bunch of pictures from a Limited Too Fashion show in Sweden. There's also a picture on the site of Anais and another woman, and the Swedish caption under it says that they helped work the fashion show and they did a good job on it!
Thanks so much to fans named Lauren and Melodie for sending in this info! :)
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Recently I've heard from various places that Anais is working with Limited Too - which have recently opened up in Sweden. I don't have any further information about this or her though.
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Here are a few new photos of Rosie and Kocky from a performance! She looks gorgeous! I love her dress and hair. :) Click on the picture to view it full sized.
Thanks so much to Manuel for letting me know about these!
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I was at my Aunt's house yesterday, and she gave me one of her Soap Opera magazines to look at because Jesse McCartney was in it. On one of the pages, I noticed that there was a mention of Sacred Journey - the movie Anna is in. Here's a scan!
There's no other information about it besides what we already know, but I thought that was pretty cool!
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Rosanna has added a few appearances to her Myspace. Check them out below!
May 3 2008 @ 8:00PM Jeriko Malmö May 16 2008 @ 8:00PM Herrgårn Lindköping Jun 13 2008 @ 8:00PM Hultsfredsfestivalen Hultsfred Jun 30 2008 @ 8:00PM Emmabodafestivalen Emmaboda Jul 3 2008 @ 8:00PM Arvikafestivalen Arvika
Here's a new picture of Anna and Chris. Credit for this picture goes to the Chris Trousdale: A Dream Come True Yahoo! Group! Click the picture to view it larger.
Want to win an exclusive 3 song CD along with a special edition of Pop Scene magazine starring Chris and Anna? Go to starshinemag.com to find out more! Deadline is April 1st, 2008. Also check out popsceneonline.com for articles and never before seen photos of Anna and Chris!
I have been getting many messages and emails about what Anais is up to - I have not really heard any news about her in a very long time, therefore I can not update about her :(. I know so many of you are curious, as I am as well!
I have reuploaded Faye's version of "Go Your Own Way" to my own web site, so the link should always work. Please right click here and save target as. Enjoy!
Lastly, I have uploaded a rare video of Play at soundcheck (with Faye) from 2003. This was the day Replay came out and they performed in Massapequa, New York. It's really cute and I think you guys will enjoy it! I've included the direct link to the video in case anyone wants to "favorite" it!
Please go to PLAY-MANIA.COM for all of the latest news on PLAY: Anais Lameche, Fanny Hamlin and Sanne Karlsson. Updated daily!
As well as news on Play's former members: Anna Sundstrand, Rosanna Munter and Janet Leon!
Play-Mania.com was the largest, most popular and most accurate source for the Swedish pop group Play since 2003. With the girls' disbandment in 2005, the site had shifted onto Blogspot.
And now, in 2009, Play is back. Watch as Anais, Fanny and (new member)Sanne record their album and become stars in both Sweden and the United States. Check them out on Made In Sweden in 2010.
I will still bring everyone the latest news on all of the girls who individually made up Play: Janet, Anna, Anais, Faye, Rosanna and Sanne.
Keep checking back for updates and news! ♥ Lisa
Found news on the girls? E-mail me at lisaplaymania@aol.com! Make sure to include your name in the e-mail somehow so I can credit you in the update!
Rosanna Speaks About Play "I've understood theres been quite a lot... [more]" Posted on December 6th, 2009
"Let's end this on a good note.." "First, I want to express my gratitude to... [more]" Posted on December 4th, 2009
Anais Speaks Out on Play's Behalf "First of all I would like to say how wonderful it feels... [more]" Posted on December 2nd, 2009
Anna Speaks About Play's Reunion "I know you are upset and confused about the news that I will not... [more]" Posted on November 30th, 2009
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See Anna perform on Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 at Cargo Cafe in Staten Island, New York for Sandy Lo's "Dream Catchers" book release party!