M2M 💕 A Girl Group Retrospective 

I loved M2M, they were a part of my childhood :)

I’ve never heard of this group before but their image and outfits are stunning. Gen z would love them if they came out these days

I love how Marit evolved musically! I’m a big fan of her music. She’s still a great inspiration and I’m still big fan of Taylor guitars because of her!

Best girl group in the 2000s, miss them so much

So glad this video was made, they were a once in a generation talent and the fact that they made it so far but don't get any recognition today is a damn shame! But if you know, you know. M2M is one of the best singer songwriter duos in pop music history they just weren't given the chance to go further due to label mismanagement The Day You Went Away is still one of my favorite songs of all time and an absolute breakup banger

Proud M2M fan here since 1999.

M2M has such a hold on us here in the Philippines, esp those who grew up in the early 2000's. I remember this was the first music group my sister & I idolized, and I knew about Norway bc of them lol. For some reason us Filipinos are suckers for love songs/mellow songs/ballads and this era was no exception, along with boybands like westlife & a1 (nysnc was not as popular here). Also, I never knew both of them dated the Hansons???

I wish they would do a short tour to celebrate M2M and their solo hits

Wow! I always wondered what happened to them. Thank you so much for all the info ❤

M2M was such a phenomenon in Vietnam back in the late 90s and early 2000s, they're basically the childhood of all Vietnamese born in the 80s and 90s. I love them so much.

¡Me encantó! Ahhhhh! Excelente trabajo. "Todo Lo Que Haces" es una de mis canciones favoritas. El remix hecho por "Groove Brothers" para "Everything You do" lo escucho hasta hoy. Me hace llorar. Es una explosión de energia positiva. Many hugs from Chile 🇨🇱❤️

I was hoping someone would make a complete M2M retrospective, and this absolutely exceeds, Ty so much for this!

Your research is incredible, brilliant content ❤

Super underrated group! Their music still holds up well today. Marion’s first solo album is also an underrated gem. It’s a must for fans of mid-00s female-fronted pop rock (Kelly, Ashlee, Avril) while being slightly edgier.

I love both of them ❤

this was such a great video. i loved m2m music as a kid and i’m so glad to see they getting appreciated in this video and even more glad to see the 2 ladies still thriving in their solo careers even till this day!

Wow! This was a great research! Thanks for that. I wish they have gone more popular worldwide as solo artists.

Drawing on Barbara Bradby's view on the construction of romance in 1960s girl-group songs, I suggest an interpretation of "Don't Say You Love Me" as "a complex of active sexual desire tempered by real needs, such as that for reciprocation" - or, in the case of M2M, the need for control, for asserting the narrative "I" as an active subject who shows how she keeps the nondescript "you" from violating her integrity. - Taken from "Scratching the Surface" by Jon Mikkel Broch Alvik

Loveeee your deep dives on these bands! Thank you!

Yaaaassss!!!! I loved them growing up!! Great work! Love this channel ❤

I love your channel and your deep dives! M2M was a fave back in the day. I would nominate either PYT or Innosense for your next video!

Loveeed M2M growing up, I even had won a promo single of “everything” in a fan contest back in the day haha the only contest I ever won haha such a good video! Even as a fan I didn’t know some of this stuff, really get deep dive! Subscribed! Love girl groups 🙌🏼

aw i’m so glad i came across this video. one of the first CD’s i owned were their shades of purple and the big room albums, i was OBSESSED with mirror mirror. both marion and marit are still so absolutely stunning nowadays (also marion sang don’t say you love me a few years back and she sounded SO GOOD)

This is so amazing!!! Thank you so much for finally doing this.

Loooove M2M! This was such a fun video to watch. Its so cool to see someone making content about these girlgroups who also enjoys kpop. All those late 90s early 00s girlgroups and boygroups really laid the groundwork for my becoming obsessed with kpop in 2009 lol I'd love to see a video on Girls Aloud or Atomic Kitten!

Did I ever listen to or know M2M, No. But did I still watch this till the very end, Yes. The name is familiar but I definitely only really knew Jump5 and Play which is how I found this channel. So interesting to see the girl groups of the 2000 before K-pop. I really remember alternating between K-pop girl groups and these other non American girl groups. It’s so nostalgic to watch these videos.

Love m2m! thank you for this deepdive!

Wow this is awesome. Thank you for doing this video❤❤❤❤ We love Marit Larsen

the clip of JYP's performance... JUMP SCARE

great video thank you my favorite band of all time.

So glad you are back! I never understood why they chose that as the lead song for the Pokémon movie. It’s not a love story😂

I'm from the Philippines and I never knew the songs I'd here other people sing through those Timezone booths were M2M songs! Great video as usual! Would love to see you do some girl groups from the Philippines for future videos (probably the Sexbomb girls would be the immediate choice lol)

Thank you for this! I was having massive nostalgia last week and started listening to Shades of Purple again. I was wondering how Don't Say You Love Me ended up on the Pokemon soundtrack. I just looked them up on Instagram, and Marion is very pregnant rn! Woo hoo to her!

Great video! thanks for uploading :)

I love that they are still around.

Thoroughly enjoyed this video 😊

Do more M2M content. Amazing ❤

M2M FOREVER

Great video, but I can't believe you didn't mention the time Marit performed at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, where she was introduced by Scarlett Johansson and Michael Caine! Also, interesting fact about The Big Room - that album was really mismanaged by Atlantic. Basically half the songs from it were released remixed in South East Asia turning them from pop-rock songs into pop songs. For example, that classic guitar riff from Everything is completely toned down in the SEA version. It wasn't until the American version was released 5 months later that we got to hear the songs as Marit and Marion intended them to be heard.

another iconic video

I remember them leaving the Jewel tour being simultaneous with Marion going solo, and as a Marit fan, it took me years to forgive her. Oops, I guess. It was definitely concerning how much TBR focused on Marion. At the time I even would say it was "Marion featuring Marit" rather than a true duo. The reason Marit gave at the time was that she wanted to focus on playing instruments more. I thought they could've still at least given her lead on one song. Then when the breakup happened, and... yeah. I will say, if Marit was happy about it, she could've said so in the diary section of her website, and she didn't. I never got to the point where I thought Marion had nothing to do with M2M's success though. That's absolutely insane.

They were much like Polish duo Blog 27(which also deserves an episode, for me), except that the Polish one was edgier(influenced by Avril Lavigne and Ashlee Simpson).

First time watching their mv at tv enchanted me, the next day I'm in music store searching their Shades of purple album❤

Interesting, well-made video!

it's been very interesting to here MMs history in detail while they only had one hit here in the Uk with don't say you love me i loved there other songs i have both their albums and wished they had more success here and hope one day for a reunion.

M2m was big in Philippines and SEA

My childhood

I still jam too M2M till this day. I got a chance in 2000 to see them at Blue Bayou water park.

Omg great to see you back!

Waiting for this to turn viral, you desercve more views. ❤

Lmfao “why don’t they have shoes, we may never know”…..”they have Marin a Karen haircut” bauahaha you are so funny I literally am laughing so loud and seriously amazing at your job! Please grow this channel bc you can go so far! I still have their CD! It was the best time of my life. Indie pop music!💗

Thanks for the video. I have only known what Marit Larsen has been up to because of her RU-vid channel. I love her music. Marion Raven I didn't know what she has been up to in a while.

Yay a new video! Missed you, love your tik toks. Can you please do a video about girl thing the Honeyz ❤

That cookie clip tho 👀

Great job ❤

yes a new video

for the suggestion box: would love a Strawberry Switchblade retrospective 🌲🌲🌻🌻

13:59 who could forget the Lilith Fair-lite movement of the early 2000s? When pop chicks wrote their own songs, played their own instruments, and begged to be taken seriously as artists. Many of them were called "Anti-Britneys".

6:58 this video also used to creep me out as a kid, with the manikins blinking

I have the shades of purple album aisa editon..absolutely love it

The difference between the levels of ambition and talent when you look at Norwegian women and teen American women is night and day. Everyone should be super proud of both of them. One point though. The sound track of "Everyone" on Dawson's Creek is the best version I've heard of that song. Unfortunately the song is broken up with the actors doing their lines away from the stage. The base was rocking and the song just popped. I've heard no version of that song with that type of pop that doesn't have the actors interrupting the song. (Nothing against Dawson's Creek. If I never watched the show I would have never discovered M2M). Someone please reply a link to that song without the actor edit cuts.... please. I love that mix. I still think it is the best song I've ever heard from M2M.

I think they should have done what some groups do ie stay together and then take breaks to do solo stuff and then reunite to do band projects

I went to there El cajon California show ,it was pack ❤

You should do a video about British-Dutch girl group girl thing

Great video! M2M was a major part of my childhood. Somewhat related, have you considered doing a retrospective of Nobody's Angel?

Before I talk about this video itself, I have some requests that you could do. Tatu (the Australian group, not the Russian duo). IDK how easy it would be since they seem pretty obscure but it would be pretty cool if you are able to make a video about them. Another one would be R Angels who also had a song associated to a movie that made no sense, much like M2M. So back to the video…I'm a big, ecstatic M2M, Marion, and Marit fan, and I’ve been actively following their solo careers for over 15 years at this point. And the timing of me coming across this video is kind of a coincidence because lately I've been thinking about what a well-researched M2M documentary should have. As far as I'm aware of, there's two other videos about M2M on RU-vid, and unfornately, I didn't think they were well researched or even hit the most basic information that weren’t just Wikipedia or that one clip of Marit talking about a M2M reunion... So, I do want to say that I think your video is very well researched and went above, and you said a lot of points that I’ve thought about for years. It hits most of the important things that a great M2M documentary should have, and I've actually learned a bit from this video too (for instance, I would have not been able to theorize why their voices were so heavily edited in Shades of Purple. I don’t know why I didn’t even consider that before. v-v). But I do have some tiny, nitpicky details that I wanted to bring up that was mentioned in this video. -@6:22 Marion said this. :) -@28:44 The order is not entirely accurate. Marion got a phone call when she was in Los Angeles in regards to if she wanted to join X Factor, and that caused the transition from being in the US to back to Norway. -@38:47 This was on September 17, 2014 at Wimp Music party, about three weeks after Marit made her response to the Scratching the Surface essay. -In regards to @38:16, that is a good point to bring up the 2020 Taylor Swift Instagram story, and I would use this too as one of the points to debunk people’s assumptions. But to be honest, one didn’t need to look that far. In that very same 2015 interview, the interviewer asked Marit if the friendship is still on, and Marit said yes it is (which unfornately didn't get the chance to potentially be expanded upon because the interviewer very quickly talks about them being in a competition). On a side tangent, the isolated clip that BitAurora uploaded to RU-vid has unfornately caused people to not listen to the full interview, so people just watch that clip and assume that means Marit wants nothing to do with her, etc. It's very frustrating when that clip has 105K views while the original video only has 12K at the time of this comment (which I get it, most people don’t want to sit through a whole interview and they want to watch what they’re interested in). As much as I think it was so important to hear it from Marit herself, I really wished that person did not uploaded it by itself because it is already hard as it is to educate people. v-v Anyways, I never know how I sound via text since you can’t hear the other person’s tone or see their expressions, but I hope my comment doesn’t sound mean. I just have a lot of thoughts about them and can probably make a two-hour long video if I really wanted to, lol. But yeah, this is a very solid video. :p

Love them

Next deep drive request Danish pop music duo S.O.A.P

Great video! VG is a bit of a trash paper, especially in their entertainment section.

Funny thing about the Mirror, Mirror video. It also suffered from censorship, as there are 2 versions of it. In the uncensored version Marion removes the shirt of the boy near the end of the video and he spends the rest of it shirtless. In the censored version, these shots are replaced with other shots of her with the boy fully clothed.

You should do a video on the girl group Innosense. 😃

That man was WAAAAAAY outta pocket

would you ever do a video of some of the newer girl groups too? I’m really loving RLY and say now atm

Haha young billy Crawford with his red yankee jacket

I actually love marit more

I would love to see a Lillix deep dive! Or Nobody's Angel!

do no secrets they started the same year is play came out with their first album in the states

I loved M2M, I always wanted to look just like Marion, that girl is absolutely beautiful. I always wondered the story behind what happened to them, fantastic video and research! 🤍

You should do 3LW next

can you do video on school gyrls

Maybe you can do Michelle Branch next?

Mirror mirror is not bubblegum. The song is deep.

How do i say .... in your language? there are a few videos on YT of them (always Marion) teaching unknowing people to say rude words in Norwegian

Love your tiktok page 🩵

Alright. I'm SOLD. @AllTheGirlGroups where have you been all my life. We feel the same about Girl groups, ur YG comment (dif video) KILLED ME lol, so u obvs have moved to kpop, (since WE DONT GOT S***)... but if u don't know..u need to get on that Boy's World

Omg I love the editing on this video, the improvement and aesthetics!!!!! Also the JYP bit… he’s genuinely one of the worst singers I’ve ever heard, like dying seal dupe… they only time he ever slayed was saying “Jay why PAYUH” in every kpop bop from 2007-2016

My name is Louisa Jones can you do bardot

"mary" 🤦‍♀🤦‍♀🤦‍♀🤦‍♀🤦‍♀

Music sucks in this PC area

Girl and boy bands since the early 2000s are so pretentious. Nobody pretend they were “street” or that they could play instruments or were at all musically inclined or serious artists. They were pretty faces with personal trainers and dance instructors - if you can call what they did “dancing.” Then all of a sudden, they started getting tattoos and learned a couple of guitar chords. Suddenly they were “serious artists.” Don’t pee in my ear and tell me it’s raining. Now these groups can’t even sing, but they pose with instruments they can’t play and talk about “our music.” No, 95% of it you had nothing to do with. You just sang and pushed an image. I used to trash pop singers in the 90s, but they could sing and didn’t pretend they were more than that and models. Now they’re just annoying.

I'm young enough to have never heard of them until I picked a Radio Disney Jams CD at a thrift shop where Don't Say You Love Me was on. The opening lyrics are so dated, it's hilarious! The rest of the lyrics were meh and their voices were kinda annoying. You can tell they were teenagers when they made the song! I also found out that it was originally off the soundtrack of a Pokemon movie of all things! I never got into Pokemon. I know, insane, right? But if I were to start watching the movies or shows or play the games, where should I start?

J-pop and K-pop suck