{"id":25372,"date":"2019-12-10T13:15:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T19:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25372"},"modified":"2019-12-10T09:28:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T15:28:26","slug":"i-havent-mentioned-her-name-in-almost-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/10\/i-havent-mentioned-her-name-in-almost-24-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"I Haven&#8217;t Mentioned Her Name In Almost 24 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2019\/12\/10\/marie-fredriksson-roxette-singer-dead-of-cancer-at-61\/?_ga=2.220913691.242313370.1575915975-2131569212.1575915975\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marie Fredriksson, Roxette singer, dead of cancer at 61<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson, the Swedish star who achieved worldwide fame with such hits as \u201cJoyride\u201d and \u201cIt Must Have Been Love,\u201d has died at age 61 after a 17-year battle with cancer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The Look&#8221; came on the radio when I took my boys to school yesterday, and I recounted the &#8216;fact&#8217; that she could not speak English when this song was released.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LlVI7ZNiFlI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I must have heard that on the radio at the time.  I have no idea if it was ever true.<\/p>\n<p>Fun fact: My friend Dave (of the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/22\/the-iron-maiden-poster-that-got-me-a-wife\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Iron Maiden poster<\/a> fame) and I argued against my brother about the staying power of Milli Vanilli (David and I posited) versus Roxette (my brother countered).  In retrospect, it pretty much a wash in American music and its charts, and Roxette has only appeared on this blog as a punchline (<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/11\/scientists-prove-rest-of-world-is-parallel-universe-to-united-states\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scientists Prove Rest of World Is Parallel Universe to United States<\/a> in 2007, <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/18\/free-trivia-answer\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Free Trivia Answer<\/a> in 2005).<\/p>\n<p>Still, I am saddened to learn of her passing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marie Fredriksson, Roxette singer, dead of cancer at 61: Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson, the Swedish star who achieved worldwide fame with such hits as \u201cJoyride\u201d and \u201cIt Must Have Been Love,\u201d has died at age 61 after a 17-year battle with cancer. &#8220;The Look&#8221; came on the radio when I took my boys to school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25372"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25375,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25372\/revisions\/25375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}