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Room Service is an album released by Swedish pop duo Roxette, on 3 April 2001. In a bid to shake off their 'ballad-orientated career', Per Gessle wanted to create a "positive pop bomb album"[citation needed] Room Service was a shorter and sharper effort than their previous release Have a Nice Day. The album topped the Swedish charts and reached the upper regions of the charts in many European countries, peaking at #3 in Germany, but was largely ignored in the United Kingdom, peaking only at #120 there. While the album wasn't released in the United States, it did peak at #2 on CNN's Worldbeat album chart.[1] The visual theme to the album sleeve and promo shots, photographed by award-winning director Jonas Åkerlund, was shot at the Californian hotel The Madonna Inn. Even the video for "The Centre of the Heart", directed by Åkerlund, was shot there. The video would go on to be the most expensive Roxette video ever produced, surpassing long-time title holder "Spending My Time" from Roxette's 1991 Joyride album.[citation needed]
[edit] Single releasesThe album produced three singles; "The Centre of the Heart", "Real Sugar" and "Milk & Toast & Honey". "The Centre of the Heart" peaked at #1 in Sweden and was a minor hit in various European countries. The second single, "Real Sugar", was not a commercial success, and the third and final single, "Milk & Toast & Honey", was the only single from Room Service to be released in the U.K. but was also ultimately unsuccessful. [edit] Critical receptionRoom Service received a mixed response from critics. "Probably the best Roxette album since Joyride", wrote Leslie Mathew of Allmusic. Room Service is an exciting, immediate, high-gloss pop gem that contains very little filler indeed.".[2] Chili Paddy from MTV Asia also praised the album, "There are many potential hit singles here such as the glorious chirpy sing-along 'Real Sugar'".[3] Carol Sullivan from UK newspaper The Guardian disliked the album, and wrote, "Fredriksson's vocals are compelling yet curiously unengaged as she tries to negotiate Per Gessle's lyrics."[4] Per Bjurman, from Swedish newspaper, Aftonbladet, bluntly put "It (the album) is not very good.", and thought the album was not original, "Many songs sound like covers of old Roxette material. Perhaps inevitable when you return to 'roots', but a little more imagination may be required." He did praise the three singles, "Real Sugar", "The Centre of the Heart" and "Milk and Toast and Honey", which he called "Roxette's strongest ballad since 'It Must Have Been Love' and 'Listen to Your Heart'", but ended the review with "Roxette is not finished. But soon, I suspect."[5] The verse from "jefferson": "Jefferson was always out of luck/I remember when we both grew up/ Jefferson got hit by a westbound truck/I guess that didn't make him look like a million bucks.", also brought a mixed response. Simon P Ward from Yahoo! Music called the verse a "Lyrical gem."[6] , while Carol Sullivan from The Guardian put "one of the worst first verses in history."[4] [edit] European tourThe Room Service World Tour 2001 was Roxette's first tour in over six years, and saw the duo perform live in many parts of Europe except the U.K. On reviewing one of their concerts, Per Bjurman from Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet was critical of the duo's chosen playlist and suggested that the duo had become too stuck in their past glories.[7] [edit] Track listingCD All songs written and composed by Per Gessle, except where noted.
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