Seriously though, people say without plastic surgery she would not be pretty and I am like breh that does not math as she was pretty when she was a teen actor?
Thanks so much for doing this. PLAY should've been so much bigger and Faye was/is incredible vocalist she literally carried the group on her back vocally and was giving Christina Aguilera jr all over the Replay album my only nitpick is I wish they had gotten more original songs rather than secondhand covers but i digress.
Of course 💗 Thank you for watching! Totally agree with everything here. Not a fan of the covers either lol I've noticed a lot of girl groups outside of the US were a bit heavy on the covers. I've been meaning to deep dive on it
This was well done! Play was such an underrated group. Especially the original Lineup. Hell,even their third lineup was very promising with Faye,Sanne and Anais.
I agree but I did enjoy the lineup Janet homegirl could sang just aswell as Faye she didn't have the strongest material but i'll save that for part two.
I’m 32 now and this was my favorite group back in the day! I remember when I bought their documentary on DVD and I was sooooo excited and watched it a million times. I loved their music, fashion, voices, etc. back in 2000’s there was zero social media and I would talk to my friend on AOL instant message and we would talk about the album and our favorite songs 😭 I miss those days!
This was awesome! I'm so sad Faye ultimately seemed to grow so disenchanted (understandably) with the industry to the point that she'd leave it completely whilst still being so young. Her vocals were incredible and she really could've gone far. Also, Remember to Forget is AMAZING, should've been a single. I also LOVE LOVE LOVE Don't Get Down Like That.
So Anna actually released a book in 2020, it’s only in Swedish right now but the title of it translated is “You are Replaceable” and it speaks to her time in Play. I get the feeling the Faye wasn’t the only one felt used/betrayed by the industry 💔
@@maggierolseth2375 yes even though I'm not swedish from the little bit I was able to gather it seemed that Faye and Anais were bullying Anna (when Anna already had a history of being bullied sadly prior to them), and upon the reunion when Faye returned, on their side of the published article of the story they said it was because anna lived in the usa that they didn't have her back, but Anna had said Faye called her and told her they didn't want her back. Then apparently Rosie thought that was wrong and said if they don't want her back I'm leaving too and that's exactly what happened. At least Rosie was a real friend or better friend to Anna it seems. Smh it's a real shame what happened. But that's all I could gather as there's no translation and I only speak English.
I unironically stan Play. I even emailed Spotify cuz they have two different profile pages on there currently: one with their first three albums, and another with their last two albums. And both of their profiles have singles on it that aren't even them. A mess. They deserve better!
I was so in love with PLAY. Obsessed. I would go on their website www.playcentral.com every single day waiting for new music and music videos since there was no social media back then, yet. Only AIM. My favorite song is Honey to the Bee/ 11 out of 10 and hopelessly devoted . Favorite member was Anna.
OMG LOL PLAYCENTRAL. WOW...that was like..15 years ago?? I totally forgot about it til I saw this comment. Was obsessed with play haha. I was like 9 years old. Miss them :(
When you realize you know everything from this documentary..looooved play sooo much..bought all their CDs at Target, bought their documentary DVD, burned their songs and made my own mix, talked to my friends on AIM about them..wow
@@allthegirlgroups2977 omg I didn’t know you can do that? Can you show me how! I would love to revisit that site . I used to write in the comments every play mania post 😂💖 I’m still a hardcore fan!
@@teddymykaels Sure! the link is web.archive.org/web/*/Play-mania.com Scroll down a bit and you have clickable options by year. Then when you click on the year it'll reveal the full 12 month calendar...the blue dots represent available "snapshots" of the website as it was during that time. Its not perfect but its good enough and you can click around the website and reminisce 💕 haha.
@@bowwowschild yes! Currently working on the GG “Dream” im sorry for the delay. I got a new job and didn’t expect it to rock me as hard as it did but I’ll find the balance I promise.
I can say as a whole grown man, that i used to listen to play a lot lowkey from my little sister and grew to love them. As a young boy i never talked about it much because you know...stigma when it comes to boys listening to girl band music back then. I actually had my jaw on the floor because i forgot Faye was such a powerful singer and for so young. But this was such a great video to watch and all my childhood memories came flooding back. This is very well done!
I'm a fan from the US who had their first two albums! Whole Again has been a favorite ever since! I want Anna to publish her memoir in English so I can read it. Anna was my favorite member probably because her dancing was the best.
I didn't know they had more than 2 songs. I'm the same age as them, I remember thinking they were so tall, I was like 5'5 at age 13, and they were like 5'9. The redhead had the vocal range of a grown woman at age 13, the dark haired one could sing pretty well too.
fun fact faye left in the middle of the hard knock video so amanda lameche the older sister of anais filled in for her this is the girl in the grey hat this is also why you only see anna ansis and Rosanna Faye filmed some scenes but they are looped over and over again and through out the video only anna Rosanna and anais filmed together
@@Louisjcx I'm definitely aiming to post more of them. I'm just trying to figure out how to make it palatable for a new audience...and omg Anna herself got in touch with Sony and asked them to post their music on Spotify. We don't deserve her lol. I can't imagine not hearing "I must not chase the boys" in high quality 😆
I’ve been listening to these groups lately, because I was born in 93 and I didn’t really get to listen to these groups growing up. I’ve been caught up with A*Teens lately (formerly Abba Teens), which I think is just even more of a interesting group and also Swedish.
Omg I love A*Teens they are actually back together for right now and Amit actually sent me a message when I messaged him when I was in the hospital after I overdosed first my sister messaged him telling him how much that I love him and told him about what I did and when I found out that he actually messaged my sister a few times I messaged him I was happy that he actually messaged me back that made my year even though I was going though a lot he is such a sweetheart I love him
great work!! i feel like for me play was one of those groups that was just playing all throughout my childhood, but never really had a name?? i think i merged them together with a*teens but cannot lie play really seems to hold up!!
It really goes to show to me that Play was fully marketed to the US and had their Europe marketing scaled back massively. Otherwise they would’ve never given them material like ‘Whole Again’, which was one of the biggest songs Europe-wide in 2001, and ‘Honey to the B’, which was huge in the UK in 1998. I remember Play (in the Netherlands, major music market at the time) only for ‘Us Against the World’, which was on heavy rotation on music channels, and ‘I Must Not Chase the Boys’, which received only some attention but had the benefit of being released in the early boom of consumer internet.
One song u didn't mention in here is their cover of I'm Gonna Make You Love Me, which was a duet with the as of last year late Chris Trousdale of the short-lived boy band Dream Street
Never heard of them not even at my young age but i love them i just listen to there stuff amazing and their Cinderella song was used for cheetah girls 😅❤love both versions 💗
in plays hard knock life you can see a girl where the girls are sitting next to each other look at the right side you will see aniais sister amanda who filled in for faye who was sick that day fun fact
Can you pleasd do "nobody's angel" everyone seems to also forget them I think they even aired a disney channel pilot but it never got picked up! You can see one of the members on youtube her channel is "twinkle time" and she prob has more info on that since i've seen her on a few comments!
Please never stop uploading, I found you on Instagram and i'm so happy we finally have a Channel that talks about Girl groups, it's so hard to see content like this around the web, Please never stop, Your videos are great! 💖💖 now back to binge watching the Channel!!
I had a huge crush on Anna back in the day (and Rosie was hot too). What can I say, I liked the blonde girls 😍😁🤟 I was one of those rare male fans, I owned the DVD and CDs, 😁✌️
to be COMPLETELY honest romantically i did do and/or will SOMEWHAT like play because of their attractive faces and i did do and/or PROBABLY will really LOVE them as musicians
The first mistake was to sign with Matthew Knowles, who ruined the career of three of the members of Destiny's Child and the career of promising girl group BLAQUE. Also, not you dragging my girls of Atomic Kitten when ms. Natasha Hamilton murdered that Whole Again song... they had to film the music video on a white screen because the prior single flopped, LMAO. And NO, they were not locals, Whole Again was #1 on 18 countries.
