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Old 08-01-2002, 02:49 PM
Fredrik Fredrik is offline
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Here's the article, translated:

- SWEDE HELPS BON JOVI -

Bon Jovi has once again turn their heads to Sweden for another hit.
Multiproducer Andreas Carlsson lies behind the bands upcoming new single "Everyday".
It was another swede that helped launch Bon Jovis somewhat sleepy career into fame again a couple of years ago. The american rockband turned to the demonproducer Max Martin - and got a huge hit with "It's My Life". The band sold eight million copies of their latest album "Crush".

When the time has come for Bon Jovi to release another album the band turned their heads to Sweden once again. This time Andreas Carlsson got the honourable mission. He has with his studio The Location the last few years created hits for people like Céline Dion and Britney Spears.
Just recently he worked with the somewhat forgotten hard-rock bad Def Leppard.
- "Many old bands like this need a hit to remain at the record company" said Andreas Carlsson at that time to Aftonbladet.
For Bon Jovi he has both written and produced the single "Everyday" from the new album "Bounce" that comes out on September 23rd.
Andreas Carlsson hasn't had bad luck with a song in five years. And he won't have bad luck this time around either.
Aftonbladet was effortless trying to reach Andreas Carlsson for a comment, but he wasn't to be found.

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Alright, now to my own perspective. The paper are wrong on several acounts in this article. First of all is that Andreas Carlsson did NOT both write and produced the song himself, there's no WAY IN HELL that none of the band members would allow a song on the album to be completely produced and written by someone else. What I think is the real truth is that this song was written by Jon, Richie AND Andreas. Cause that's what happened with their last hit "It's My Life".
And the other part of the article when Andreas makes his statement about "bands need a hit to remain on the record company" he's talking about Def Leppard and not Bon Jovi. But the context still feels like he's talking about Bon Jovi.
The article is very poorly written and I hope this will be cleared out soon. I've asked BJHQ to see if I can get any straight answers from them. If you feel like it, please ask the question yourselves as it would probably result in larger chance on getting an answer. And also, mail the idiot Klas Lindberg and tell him how things are run that Carlsson did not write the song himself (amongst other things). He's e-mail is klas.lindberg@aftonbladet.se. Just write in swedish if you know that language, otherwise type english!

- Fredrik
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