Before it even started, Marit Elise Ravn, much known as Marion Raven, and Marit Elisabeth Larsen accidentally stoked the “meeting your younger self for coffee” pattern.
The Scandinavian singer-songwriters from M2M, a fundamental combo in early 2000s music, ran into each other in a shop in Oslo, Norway in April 2024. The chance meeting revived a relationship that had once shaped an entire generation while largely absent from their youth after more than 20 years of limited contact.
M2M’s unique sound was marked by softly, gentle singers and airy rhythms. Their 2000 debut album Shades Of Purple, which was released in 2000, was largely a success thanks to its lead one Don’t Say You Love Me, which was featured on the soundtrack for the first Pokemon film, catapulting the band to international recognition.
When their follow-up song The Big Room did not perform properly enough, they disbanded in 2002. And there were no homecoming plans up until their unexpected meeting last year.
Larsen and Raven, who are now mothers in their first 40s, are however grotesquely shocked by how life has changed since that time.
” It was like a magnetic field. It felt like – and we don’t really feel in any of that – it was almost manipulated”, Larsen shared over Zoom with CNA Lifestyle.
” Yeah, it felt really meant to be. Nobody else was present at the coffee store. It was just the two of us”, added Raven.
Subtly TIMING THE REUNION TO THEIR LYRICS
They were reminded of their simple but powerful collaboration at the time when they realized there were still over a million Spotify users listening to M2M each month, evidence that their tunes had been kept “alive after all that time.” The amounts piqued their interest.
” We really wanted to see what transpired if we sent a fire online, which we did last year,” said the company. We sent out a little clip of the song The Day You Went Away, recorded in Marion’s living room– and it ( caught ) fire”, recalled Larsen.