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>>AQUA SPLIT
CAUSED BY SUCCESS<<
Source: BT
- Translated by Aqua
2001 and used with permission.
Added: August 12th
Aqua's hits
made millions roll in. But success tore them apart, and today 'the fantastic
four'
hardly see each other.
When it fell to pieces, it was just a business friendship. For almost 5 years,
Aqua were constantly in each others' company and the media spotlight. But one
day, 22 months ago, the bombshell dropped: Aqua split up!
Since then we haven't heard much from the 3 jellyfish and the Norwegian mermaid. They turned their backs on the
pop world and on Denmark. Simply had enough of it all. And of each other.
When they were on top, Lene, Rene, Søren and Claus repeatedly confirmed that
their special friendship was a big part of the recipe to success. But today the
4 members hardly see each other. Apart from Lene and Søren, who are of course
happily married.
None of them will talk about it. But even with the release of their second album
in February 2000, there were signs of problems, Søren Rasted told B.T.
"We had been together so much, I got the feeling we were almost too good
friends. You should always keep a little distance from each other otherwise it
becomes like a marriage. It's healthy to keep a few things to yourself so you
have something to talk about. There was a time in Aqua when we didn't. We were
so unsure where we stood with each other, because we had been together so much
yet didn't have anything together".
It was a year later in a restaurant in London, over a pizza and a few glasses of
wine, that they realised that the best times lay behind them. "It was with
relaxed but clear vision, that we parted. We all needed a bit of breathing space
from each other" they later told B.T.
Since then, Rene has worked with Claus a bit, but has hardly seen the others.
Even Claus and Søren hardly see each other, despite being each other's best man
at theirs weddings and being friends for many years before Aqua.
According to the press release from Universal Music, the split happened - that
was actually not a split but a "break" - because of a "lack of
spark".
But above the direct effects on each other, it was also, indirectly, the 3
weddings that led to the funeral of Aqua on the 14th August 2001 - 11 days
before Lene and Søren's idyllic wedding, in Søren's confirmation church in
Blovstrød in North Zealand.
Claus Norreen was the first to get married, in August 2000, in bare feet at
Valdemar Castle on Tåsinge, to music journalist Siggy Madsen from the teen
magazines Chili and Frikvarter. He wanted a normal life with wife and children.
Tired of a life under pressure and stress.
But the drops that made the aquarium overflow, fell when Lene and Søren shocked
everyone when suddenly in May 2001 they got married in Las Vegas. No-one -
including Rene and Claus - even knew that they were in a relationship, but after
7 years as friends, they has just suddenly fallen in love. It was particularly
hard for Lene's ex-boyfriend Rene to take.
"It's difficult when you are four, you have a job, and then you suddenly
become 3 (Lene and Søren were like one person), and I believe in the old saying
that three's a crowd. At the end there was a debate every time we had to make a
decision, and it burns you out" Rene told B.T.
Of his and Lene's relationship, Lene says that "Rene and I are too similar
to be a couple. We are both far too impulsive and temperamental to be
together". And as if their previous relationship didn't make things
complicated enough, it also affected Rene's relationship to the new couple, that
his girlfriend Ibi Støving lived together with Carina Jensen, who Søren dumped
so suddenly for Lene.
Additionally, Rene felt frozen out of the music composition by Soren and Claus.
"My needs were not being fulfilled at the end. I was less involved with all
the new things on the third album. I had already been cut down on the second
album, and now I was going to be cut down again. I wasn't interested in
that".
Before it came to be "a workplace" and "hard routine" the Danish-Norwegian
goldfish were highly successful, with the title of all-time best selling Danish
act in popular music.
As late as May 2001, their light shone over an audience of 38,000 fans and 100
million TV viewers during the vote-counting at the Eurovision song contest,
where they played a medley of their biggest hits with Safri Duo as guest
artists, emphasised by the light and smoke from 550 fireworks.
One month later they launched four new numbers from the third album, on a mini
tour that began with Lene almost collapsing on stage in her home town of Tønsberg,
and culminated before over 20,000 festival-goers at Roskilde.
The music went more towards the rock direction, yet still with their trademark
lyrics: funny. Finally they went on the Grøn koncert tour. And 2 weeks later it
was over. Career and friendships up in smoke.
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