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Roxette - Queen Of Rain

Music Video | 1992
ArtistRoxette
SongQueen Of Rain
AlbumTourism
DirectorMatt Murray
Director of PhotographyDaniel Pearl
IntroNo
OutroNo
MusiciansPer Gessle - Guitar<BR>Marie Fredriksson - Vocals
Sound MixStereo
Technical Specificationscolour - format unknown
Release date

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Synopsis

Set against windswept coastlines and an imposing French estate, the video presents "Queen Of Rain" as a melancholy fairy tale. Marie Fredriksson moves through shadowy rooms, empty corridors, and rain-soaked landscapes while Per Gessle appears in separate performance scenes. The grand architecture, mist, candlelit interiors, and recurring images of isolation create a dreamlike portrait of love slipping away. Rather than following a conventional narrative, the video lets its atmosphere mirror the song's sadness, turning the castle and surrounding landscape into reflections of emotional distance.

Factoids & Trivia

  • The video was filmed in northern France, including Mont Saint-Michel and a French chateau. The locations provide much of its medieval, storybook character.
  • The production had limited time on Mont Saint-Michel because the rising tide affected access to the tidal island. The crew had to work quickly to capture the necessary footage.
  • The song was released in 1992 as the second single from Roxette's *Tourism* album, although the recording itself originated during sessions for *Joyride* in Stockholm in 1990.
  • The video's interior scenes emphasize a large, richly decorated house, with candlelit rooms, old-fashioned furnishings, and long corridors reinforcing the song's sense of romantic loneliness.
  • Several visual motifs associated with Roxette's dramatic ballad videos return here, including theatrical staging, rain effects, floating fabric, and a chessboard.
  • Roxette later recorded a Spanish-language version, "Una Reina Va Detras De Un Rey," for the 1996 compilation *Baladas en Espanol*.
  • The video was included in Roxette's 2001 DVD collection *All Videos Ever Made & More!*, which gathered the duo's promotional videos from 1987 through 2001.

Lyrics

In that big big house
there are fifty doors
and one of them leads to your heart.
In the time of spring
I passed your gate
and tried to make a start.
All I knew
was the scent of sea and dew
but I've been in love before, how about you?
There's a time for the good in life,
a time to kill the pain in life,
dream about the sun you queen of rain.

In that big old house
...
© Roxette - Queen Of Rain. This is an excerpt, provided as citation under fair-use.
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