Producer Raine Maida

tasha · Post by **tasha** » 12/10/2004, 3:37 pm

ahh. if avril ever wore that shirt, i would vomit. lol.

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 12/10/2004, 7:11 pm

:O i saw her new video too and i SOOOOO thought it was avril lavigne except i have both of her cds and none of her songs sound like that! i was like :wtf:

when i found out it was kelly clarkson. i mean... trashing houses and wearing black capris like that is soo avril. :uh:

xoNoDoubt69 · Post by **xoNoDoubt69** » 12/14/2004, 7:41 pm

i read that kelly clarkson thanks chantal and raine in her thank you's. bop!

reza · Post by **reza** » 12/14/2004, 7:46 pm

she should they freaking produced and wrote parts of the album for her, that's no shocker.

xoNoDoubt69 · Post by **xoNoDoubt69** » 12/14/2004, 7:48 pm

calm down. just a little fyi.

Dr. Hobo · Post by **Dr. Hobo** » 12/14/2004, 7:49 pm

i thanked raine and chantal too

reza · Post by **reza** » 12/14/2004, 7:49 pm

Dr. Hobo · Post by **Dr. Hobo** » 12/14/2004, 7:51 pm

everything

Lando · Post by **Lando** » 12/14/2004, 7:52 pm

tasha wrote:ahh. if avril ever wore that shirt, i would vomit. lol.

if you guys are talking about that major cleavage shirt thing, she'd need boobs to wear it... it just don't sit right yo.

reza · Post by **reza** » 12/14/2004, 8:50 pm

Apparently Moody, has an upcoming solo C.D, you think that maybe he invited Raine to write or produce, seeing as how he has worked with him before?

For more information on Ben Moody and his solo project:
http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2004/12/1409.cfm

xoNoDoubt69 · Post by **xoNoDoubt69** » 6/29/2005, 10:22 pm

Raine and Chantal co-wrote a song on Marion Raven's ( previously of m2m)
new album.

AFTER the breakup of her group M2M, 21-year-old Marion Raven decided go it alone. So here she is with her debut solo album, ‘Here I Am’.

“We wanted to do different things and had different ambitions when it came to music, so we decided that it was best we split,” said Raven at a recent Press conference to launch her solo effort.

After M2M called it a day in 2002, Raven made the big shift to the Big Apple and had been spending her time practising on her vintage red Gibson SG, rehearsing with her new band, soaking up new influences, and at the same time working on her solo material.

With the three years in between, Raven had more than ample time to hone her craft. Her album proves she’s the new singer/songwriter on the rise.

She also did a mini showcase in JW Marriot Hotel, as part of her promotional tour.

“I’m glad Malaysia is my first stop. I really enjoyed singing here the last time I came down. It was the best showcase I had ever performed. My fans were amazing,’’ she said.

Like the pitch-black bird with which she shares a name, a nod to her Viking past, the songs on the 21-year-old Norwegian-born singer/songwriter’s Atlantic Records solo debut are dark, vengeful, mysterious, dangerous, but ultimately uplifting and cathartic.

Many of the songs, written by Raven with some in collaboration with others, were the result of a real-life relationship gone bad.

13 Days, which she composed with Canadian singer/songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk and Our Lady Peace’s Raine Maida, is about a fling she had lasting just that long – 13 days! “My ex-boyfriend is not going to be happy when he hears this album,” she laughed.

Other songs such as The End of Me, Let Me Introduce Myself and Gotta Be Kidding were targeted at infidelity with the venom of a woman scorned.

“When I feel anger or disappointment, the really good songs and lyrics come out of me,” she said. “Sometimes I won’t be able to finish a song because I lost the feeling and it might be a year before I’m ready to work on it again.”

Playing piano and both electric and acoustic guitar, Raven also collaborated with Mötley Crue’s Nikki Sixx, Everclear’s Art Alexakis (who duets with her on the country-flavoured At the End of the Day) and producer/writers Max Martin and Rami in this album.

Songs like Crawl and Get Me Out of Here reflect her own love of classic bands like AC/DC, the Stones and Led Zeppelin, while Here I Am and In Spite of Me show Raven is just at home belting out power ballads.

Half of the album was recorded in Stockholm with Martin and Rami, the pair responsible for worldwide smash hits like Britney Spears’ Oops I Did It Again and the Backstreet Boys’ Shape of My Heart. The rest was cut in Massachusetts, at a studio once used by the Stones, with Steve Thompson, a veteran who had worked with almost everyone from Korn and Duran Duran to Blues Traveller.

“He just rocks all the way, and I thought that would help that side of me,” she said.

Born outside Oslo, Norway to a father who was a teacher and a social worker mother, Raven was always destined for a life in music.

She started singing at her neighbours’ homes and joined the local gospel choir at the age of five and starred in the Norwegian Broadway version of The Sound of Music at seven.

“I was singing and going on auditions before I could read,” she said.

Raven, who began playing piano at eight, wrote her first song at 13, and started playing acoustic guitar at about the same time.

She was overheard singing the first song she ever wrote by a US record company executive, who flew the then 14-year-old to New York, where she auditioned for legendary Atlantic chief Ahmet Ertegun.

She and her band, M2M was signed on the spot and the group became an instant teen-pop sensation with the hit song Don’t Say You Love Me.

The group’s two albums sold more than two million copies worldwide.

“It’s all part of my development. My experiences with M2M made me what I am today,’’ she said.

With her amazing voice along with her talents as a musician and songwriter, Raven is ready to create her own mythology.

“I’m here to stay for a long time and I hope people love the music I churn out. It’s from my heart and the experiences I’ve gone through in my life. My songs are the emotions I felt.”