💜 M2M Fans Newsletter #5

The unofficial M2M newsletter!

Hello, everyone!

Today’s edition is a special one: it’s dedicated to Marit.

She just started touring solo and I attended the first few concerts. These concerts are smaller in scope than the M2M experience, both because they’re only happening in Norway and because they’re all in concert halls.

For a while I didn’t know if I was going to write about the concerts. For me, M2M’s songs are a part of my early teenage years. They’re heavily tied to coming back from school and listening to Shades of Purple on the family’s CD player. Marit’s songs, however, are a part of me. Not of me growing up, but of me as a person. So writing about these concerts is so close to my heart that it wasn’t a given I would write something publicly available.

However, I think people deserve to know what a beautiful, intimate experience it is to listen to Marit sing live. I am a kid holding a small treasure but as selfish as I may be, I need to show it to others. My need to write about this experience is overwhelming.

In today’s newsletter I’ll walk you through one of Marit’s concerts. Instead of describing the concert itself in painstaking detail, I’ll be focusing on three songs of her playlist. Hopefully I can trick you into thinking you were there.

Top: La Maraka, México City.

Bottom: The Rock Star and the Pop Star

📸 @fernando.writes.things

As always, please remember to check the official sources. As much as I enjoy writing this newsletter and adding more commentary to certain items, there is no substitute for following M2M on their official accounts here:

🇳🇴 Marit Larsen’s 2026 Norway tour

Welcome to Marit’s 2026 tour! The concert is happening at this city’s kulturhus—a beautiful, dedicated theater that holds 400+ people. As soon as you enter the room your body understands you’re now in a place of solemn reflection; a safe space where art can grow and expand as much as it needs. The kulturhus could hold an opera one day and a comedian the next.

Tonight it holds Marit Larsen and her band.

Bølgen kulturhus @ Larvik, Norway

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The concert starts at 20.00 so you arrive at 19.30. There are quite a few people around. The building is alive with chatter, clanking of wine glasses and footsteps from people arriving and leaving. At some point, the doors to the concert hall open up and you approach the staff at the door for them to check your ticket. They greet you with a high pitched “Hei hei!” and then wave you through.

By this point, the instruments and the stage are set up. There’s light music playing. I’m fairly certain Marit has a pre-concert playlist of soft poppy songs to prep everyone. I enjoyed them and, after a few concerts, came to feel them as an auditive welcome mat letting you know you’ve come to the right place.

Bølgen kulturhus @ Larvik, Norway

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Isn’t that painting beautiful? During her 2024 she had a Hun er Min backdrop. This one is reminiscent of it, but is, in my opinion bolder, more in tune with the era of metamorphosis that I believe Marit is going through.

Anyway, let’s stop chatting. The lights are dimming and the music stopped. Instead, a soft humming sound takes over.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

After a few songs, Marit walks to the center of the stage and her hands reach to a keyboard waiting for her. On the left side of the stage, Andreas Ulvo, pianist extraordinaire, preps the synthesizer.

The stage is pitch black except for a single  spotlight on her. Her velvet black dress would be lost in the darkness except for the shining crystal stars all over. They blink and jump and dance as she moves.

And then her voice fills the air. It’s Marit but it’s also not quite her. Her voice is sweet and in tune but slightly distorted. Her pop sound is not with her in the spotlight; it took a step back to be a part of the painted background.  Her voice continues with the Norwegian rap from Musti, a talented Norwegian artist who shared the stage with Marit in Hver Gang vi Møtes.

This song is so much more than a new Marit song. It’s a completely different destination. While Marit is singing she keeps her eyes closed and smiles from time to time. Instead of pure pop or folksy music, we get to see a new part of her. A trailblazer for Norwegian pop, singing about a trailblazer in Norwegian politics.

It’s just her in her element.

The song ends and she smiles and lets out a small laugh. She turns around to the crowd and whispers “tusen takk” before moving back to the piano.

Bølgen kulturhus @ Larvik, Norway

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Fuel

It’s been a whirlwind of songs by this point and now Marit and Christer Slaaen, move to the center of the stage. They sit in front of a cardioid microphone and Marit begins talking to the crowd.

She speaks Norwegian, her voice steady but surprisingly fast. Her guitar lies on her lap, one hand holding the neck while the other waves around at the audience. She’s oozing confidence, regaling us with a story about the next song. The audience laughs. You laugh even though you don’t understand any Norwegian. She smiles. You smile.

Then the song begins. Two guitars begin whispering: one of them whispers the melody, the other the accompaniment. A soothing melody for a soothing voice. You sigh and close your eyes. Fuel stands in stark contrast to Gro Harlem Brundtlandz. Instead of rap and a synth, pop and pure Marit. This is as close to a capella as it gets.

As the song starts to fade though, something interesting happens. Christer begins an acoustic guitar solo. His eyes are closed as he goes through each note with Marit holding back laughter and amazement. The solo keeps going and going in a way that feels longer than the song. It becomes riveting. How fast can he do it? How long can he go?

The people begin clapping in a rhythm that matches the song. Christer plays and plays until the notes get sparse and stop. They both stop and there is a moment of silence; an unsure audience holding their collective breath. Christer opens his eyes and laughs and everyone erupts in applause.

Live performances demand authenticity and the duo just delivered.

Bølgen kulturhus @ Larvik, Norway

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When the morning comes

Finally, after an incredible 17 songs (!), we’ve reached the end. The last song is here with us. By this point, you’ve heard and felt the band play their hearts on stage. It’s time for Marit to close the concert and she’s fittingly picked the last song to be written for her fourth album: When The Morning Comes.

Once again we find Andreas on the synth and Marit at the front. This time she’s facing the audience and it’s an emotional moment.

The soft piano plays its part as the backing track to Marit’s ode. The song is so peaceful and solid that it asks you to think of what you’ve seen.

As the song finishes, Marit and Andreas bow and they leave the stage. The group gets a standing ovation as the lights come back to the concert hall. Some people begin walking to the exit but not you. You stay in your seat. The stage is empty once more but you’re full. You’re full of emotions. Full of memories old or new.

After a few moments, you go out and find a small table of merch. Marit brought Hun er Min vinyls, coffee, CDs, even some scarfs.  There, you see Marit kindly interacting with her audience. She’s laughing, hugging them, listening intently. Before the concert, you suspected she wore her heart on her sleeve. Now you know it to be true.

Lørenskog kulturhus @ Lørenskog, Norway

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I hope you liked my short story. On a personal note, I consider myself lucky to attend these concerts. I even met some of you! For that, I am eternally grateful.

That’s it for today’s newsletter. Thank you so much for reading!

Like I said, this is an unofficial, fan-made newsletter but if you liked it, feel free to share the newsletter with your friends, reply to this email, or reach me @fernando.writes.things.

See you soon 💜

– Fernando

💜 M2M Fans Newsletter #4

The unofficial M2M newsletter!

Hello, everyone!

The tour truly has come to a Better Ending. For a moment there, I’m sure many of us thought that they’d keep touring indefinitely. After they announced new concerts in September, then a few more appearances in October… I genuinely thought they might tour well until 2026. However, México City has officially become the last stop in the Better Endings Tour.

Was this a Better Ending to the M2M story? I cannot speak for the band (or the fans) but the answer seems quite clear: an unequivocal yes. The tour proved without a shadow of a doubt that most of us were not over M2M, and we brought receipts: sold out concerts all over the world.

It seems to me that the breakup in the early 2000’s was so crushing that many fans never stopped listening to their songs and so this reunion has come to prove that if you stay true to yourself a Better Ending is possible.

With the tour over, there’s a looming cloud over M2Mland. Is this truly the Better Ending? What about new beginnings? Is there new music coming?

In today’s newsletter I’ll explore these questions, what I think they mean to the band, and what we can do as a fandom now that the tour is over.

Top: La Maraka, México City.

Bottom: The Rock Star and the Pop Star

📸 @fernando.writes.things

As always, please remember to check the official sources. As much as I enjoy writing this newsletter and adding more commentary to certain items, there is no substitute for following M2M on their official accounts here:

🎸 The Better Endings Tour

During the Better Endings Tour the band performed for 9 months and visited 10 countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Norway, China, Taiwan and México. If I had to guess, the band played for an aggregate 100,000 people over the better part of a year. I’m sure their reach is 10-20x that with their official social media and all the fan accounts blasting content 24/7.

The tour is a momentous achievement for any band, let alone one whose last album came out 24 years ago! 💜

If you want to know what their concerts are like, I’ve already written about my experience at OverOslo here and about the Oslo Sentrum Scene concerts here. If you need the dopamine of amazing photos and videos, the amazing community of fan accounts, like @m2m_music, @m2m.mexico, @m2m.oslo, @m2mpurpleroom and @m2m.thailand (among others!) cover the concerts and everything in between. They put in a lot of work to get amazing photos, great videos, and fan accounts. You should give them a follow and enjoy their content.

Instead, I’d like to focus on a more complicated subject. One that cannot be dealt with in Instagram. I’d like to figure out what to do with the emptiness the band has left now that their reunion tour is done.

The not-so-secret questions of The Better Endings Tour

I was lucky enough to attend 5 concerts: OverOslo in the summer, the two concerts in Oslo in the Fall, and both concerts in México during the winter. Even as a biased observer, I saw the same thing at every concert: people reliving happy moments and the M’s enjoying their rekindled friendship. I’ve seen other famous artists in concert before and none of them had this electricity in the air. I’m grateful to have felt such an incredible feeling. The M’s pour their hearts on stage every time and the fans repay them in kind.

During the tour, however, I kept hearing the same questions over and over again: is the band back together for good? Will they release new music? Is there a documentary coming?

I shared the feeling behind these questions myself until very recently. I questioned why the band wouldn’t give answers or even hints to some of these. Of course there’s difficulty in predicting the future, but surely they must be aware that these questions would arise at some point.

Fans waited for answers for more than a year, but now that the tour is over and the band is getting a well-deserved rest, the fandom must now face the reality that a lot of these questions will remain unanswered for the (near?) future.

We don’t know if the band is back again for good. We don’t know if new music is coming. We don’t know if a documentary is coming.

I posit that these questions have no answers, not even from the band.

What was the tour about?

Back in the day, when M2M broke up, all we had to go around were rumors. These stories based on facts, embellished by either the media or the fans, painted a picture that I won’t rehash here. I’m certain they were careless about people’s feelings all for the sake of feeding the media and the fans.

That’s no longer the case today. Today, the band has the last word on who they are and what they do. If you’ve been paying close attention, you’re aware that they have told us everything. Not only have they told us how things happened—they’ve also told us what the tour is really about.

I’m sure some of you think the tour was about the band getting together to play one last time, and that’s not a bad answer. They have said it in several interviews. It’s literally the tour name.

I’m also sure some of you think the tour was about figuring out the future. If there was a million streams of their songs in mid-2024, did that mean M2M could make a successful comeback?

If you saw even a handful of the dozens of interviews Marit and Marion have done in the last year, the purpose of the tour should be crystal clear: the tour was their way of seizing back the narrative of who they are as a band and what happened back when they broke up.

Everything else is secondary.

I am certain the catalyst to playing as a band again was the renewed friendship along with the desire to sing together and to meet their fans in person. Perhaps the original plan really was to have this as M2M’s last hurrah. A way to close the chapter for good, not surrounded by executives and snakes but with fans singing songs from their youth.

They didn’t set out to make money although the concerts were a financial success. They didn’t set out to build a future although that would be the cherry on top. The tour was their way of sticking a purple flag in the ground and claiming M2M as Marit and Marion’s and no one else’s.

Their Better Ending

Once you distill the essence of the tour to them regaining the power to tell their stories, you can see why the band would not address any of the obvious fan questions concretely.

For example, is the band back together for good? Today, there’s no executives to answer the question. No managers. No stakeholders. It’s only Marit and Marion who get to decide and I’m sure they don’t know the answer if they’re back together for good.

The tour was successful and their chemistry on stage is undeniable, but I believe the tour’s success both blindsided them. Like any endeavor, you hope for success but what they got was a movement. Sold out concerts. Fans rabid for more music. I’m sure one or two fans a little too eager to get a selfie stalking them.

The success posed a difficult question: how much of the tour was fueled by nostalgia? If the tour was based on nostalgia, then it’s better to leave the extremely positive and sweet feelings as M2M’s last chapter. Right now, with nothing on the horizon, the tour lives up to its name. This is a Better Ending for all of us. No Atlantic mishaps. No toxic media pitting M against M. Just pure, unadulterated joy.

Even if nostalgia was not the driving factor behind fans showing up, we need to remember that each of them have successful careers in Norway. Undertaking another worldwide tour or composing new music means pausing their individual careers. Making new music together could mean making less music individually. These are all direct tradeoffs, even if we don’t consider their emotional consequences of each decision.

If you think about it, how could they answer the question? How could they answer any of these questions before letting the incredible amount of feelings evoked by the tour settle down. They need to look back and reflect on the tour. They need to sit down and have a calm, collected conversation with themselves to see if they want more or if closing the book feels right.

The band doesn’t know because, for once, they’re in complete control. What a thrilling notion it must be to finally stare down the path you always searched for.

What do we do now?

This means no new music is coming for now. No more tours for now. No more M2M for now. Collectively, we don’t have a lot of options other than chill. Marit and Marion are firmly grasping the wheel and they’re happy to take us wherever they’re going. Nowhere else.

This doesn’t mean we just sit on our thumbs and wait. The aftermath of the tour has been a new spring for the fandom: new fan groups like @m2m.oslo have led the way for old fan groups, like my dear @m2m.mexico to blossom once more. People have taken to writing like @ravnlarsenanthology’s deep dives into the duo’s lyrics or, you know, this very newsletter. The fandom is even abuzz with excitement with new accounts like @marionravenshair, @maritfingerheart or @marionravncapes (who was recently reposted by the Rock star herself 😆); ridiculous, beautiful, novel flowers in the M2M garden.

There’s also the Global Chat in Telegram and a WhatsApp group in México. I’m sure there’s many other groups out there I’m surely unaware of. These are buzzing with fans sharing images, videos, gossip (good gossip?). They’re forging friendships and generally having a good time.

So, while we wait for the band to forge their own destiny, I encourage you to make art! Write, comment, like, make videos, sing to M2M’s or Marit or Marion’s music. Spread the joy that the fandom gorges on. Spread the word and enjoy what the tour meant. Enjoy what the music meant.

Like the old adage says, “The best time to be an M2M fan was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” 😉

M2M at La Maraka

📸 @fernando.writes.things

That’s it for today’s newsletter. Thank you so much for reading!

Like I said, this is an unofficial, fan-made newsletter but if you liked it, feel free to share the newsletter with your friends, reply to this email, or reach me @fernando.writes.things.

See you soon 💜

– Fernando

💜 M2M Fans Newsletter #3

The unofficial M2M newsletter!

Hello, everyone!

It’s been a while! Since our last newsletter, M2M performed at Sentrum Scene in September, then Taipei and Bangkok in November, and will soon perform in México at La Maraka!

To say that 2025 was the year of M2M is an understatement. The Better Endings Tour was a smashing success and their year was lined with firsts: first time headlining a tour, first time performing at their home town, first time in control of the narrative.

And with them, the fans roared back to life. Both old and new fans found themselves at the center of a purple hurricane, with the two artists as the driving force.

This newsletter will be all about the comeback this year! We’ll go over the year and what the future looks like for M2M 💜

As always, please remember to check the official sources. As much as I enjoy writing this newsletter and adding more commentary to certain items, there is no substitute for following M2M on their official accounts here:

🎸 The Better Endings Tour

Concerts in México are coming up!

Kicking off in Jakarta, dazzling fans through SEA then pausing for a breather in Oslo, The Better Endings Tour has raged on for most of 2025. There are only 2 (known) concerts left and they’re in 2026.

• 🇲🇽 January 23, 2026 @ La Maraka, México City, México

• 🇲🇽 January 24, 2026 @ La Maraka, México City, México

As an old-school fan (since 1999!), I was lucky enough to catch them in Oslo in June and I wrote about it here: M2M 💜 OverOslo: My Story. Spoiler alert: it was an incredible experience, and you should buy a ticket for one of the upcoming concerts.

I already have my tickets for México City, so if you see me in the crowd, feel free to say hello!

🎤 Straight from the band

Posts from the official accounts. Keep up to date by following them!

5 million listeners : The band just published their Spotify numbers: 16 million streams and 4.8 million fans listening this year. Unbelievable. I’d call that pretty good for a band whose last song was released before Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone (the movie, not the book).

Marit is making new music: First, if you’re reading this and you’re not subscribed to Marit’s newsletter, what are you doing!? Click here to subscribe. Second, go and listen to When Susannah Cries by Marit (and the original too, for good measure). Third, I linked to a copy from my email, so excuse the formatting. Seriously, go subscribe and listen.

Marit is touring again: Marit will be touring Norway in 2026! Yes, it’s only Norway so I’m sorry for some of you living in another continent (believe me, I know). However, if you do take yearly vacations, Norway is beautiful any time of the year. To say she’s an incredible performer is an understatement (I mean, I’m biased but who cares?).

💜 M2M in 2025  

A recap of some (not all!) important events in the fandom this past year.

The reunion officially happened late last year and so 2025 had big shoes to fill. After the announcement, there was an unbelievable amount of excitement from the fans seeing the band come back after so many years apart… but the shadow of uncertainty loomed over, and not even Marit and Marion knew what to expect: was this tour a one-off thing? Would they make new music? What would the concerts be like?

I’d remind you that The Better Endings Tour is their first tour since inception. Yes, they toured with Jewel and they performed in many different places all over the world to promote both Shades of Purple and The Big Room, but this is the first time they’re the headliners. This is the first time people are coming to watch them, to listen to them.

Given everything that has been brewing in late 2024 the fans were rabid for any info before the concerts began in April. That’s how the year started and that’s when the M’s started opening up and giving us a glimpse into what truly made them come back for the fans…

🕰️ Before The Tour

The year started with the expectatio_n of The Better Endings Tour._ We all know that the M’s love unveiling things at their own pace, so we had to wait a couple of weeks until we got the first big interview: CNA’s recap of the reunion. This appears to be the first meaningful interview of the year where they describe at length where they were emotionally and musically.

Thinking back on this interview, I couldn’t believe how shocking the experience of being a fan was. “They’re doing Zoom interviews!?”, I screamed at my screen, incredulous that M2M was on the internet.

I’m showing my age here (and being dramatic because that’s why you like my newsletter) but when I was a fan in the early 2000’s, all I could aspire to was finding random magazine articles from them, or scouring PHPBB forums for any rumors on where they already had been. My best opportunity back then for knowing about them was mailing a letter and hoping (praying!) that I’d get a response back. I never did that because I never actually knew where to send the letter to, but now they’re active on social media and giving Zoom interviews? Unbelievable. Inconceivable. Need to know if we’re going anywhere🎵

CNA Lifestyle caught up with Marion Raven (left) and Marit Larsen in February over Zoom ahead of M2M's The Better Endings Tour 2025.

And then, without a warning, they released what is, to me, the interview of a lifetime. Elle Norge’s M2M interview is without a doubt the pièce de résistance of the pre-tour months. The photos are extremely high quality and the interview was extensive about how they felt coming back, what should we expect from a new M2M and how they were in control of the narrative now. If you have a copy of it, you’re very lucky. If not, the preeminent fan account @m2m_music has got you covered (check the interview here).

Credit to Elle Norge. Go and pay for a subscription to thank them for this amazing interview.

The interviews and social media posts, however, could not help us answer one of the open questions after the return… who is M2M musically in 2025? For those of us that had followed one M or the other (or both!) we knew that their voices were still impeccable, but, was M2M going to sound the same now as when they were Shades of Purple? Should they even sound the same?

The question was answered in early May in the best way possible: with new music. Still In My Dreams was announced early April with a re-imagining of some of their most popular songs.

With Marit producing (at Marion’s request), these songs are M2M but they’re not 2000’s M2M, they’re now the fully-in-control band, whose sound is particularly theirs, and it’s clear that the two talented musician singer-songwriters still have some shared music to give to the world. (Yes, I am listening to the EP as I write this and you should too).

Even though the new songs were released right after Jakarta, I’m including it in this section because only a handful of people (well, more than a handful, try thousands!) were at Indonesia to know what 2025 M2M sounded like. For the rest of us, this was the best we could do, until the concerts…

💜 The Better Endings Tour

M2M in 2025 all over the world.

The tour started in Jakarta which is now embedded in M2M history as their first ever solo concert. Recently, the duo revealed that they had a very difficult time at the beginning of the concert because Jakarta was real. This wasn’t band practice, or a TikTok video, or them opening for someone else.

I can imagine that right after the first song, the concert just fell into place for them, you know? Their first concert was all the hopes and dreams of a reunion brought to life, but  it was also the promise of something that they hoped to deliver.

And after that first song in Jakarta, it became real. The fans, the stage, the friendship: all real.

I took this photo at the Oslo concert.

What’s incredible from this comeback is that it hit all the right notes. I wrote about it on my OverOslo recap:

“When I spoke with my friend earlier that day, M2M came up during our conversation, and it became obvious to me that their resurgence came about at exactly the right time for Millenials. Marit and Marion's rekindled friendship represents so much more than two Norwegian singer-songwriters getting back together for one last hurrah. I believe for some of us, this reunion serves as a reminder that good things still happen in the world. That not everything is bleak and lost. That genuine, cheerful, bright pop music can be an oasis of happiness; a respite from the constant stream of negative news.”

It feels like it’s not only those of us who attended these concerts know the feeling. The concerts were constantly packed all over South East Asia and it was no different when I visited Oslo for the OverOslo concert. People were flying all over the world to see them. I met people from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Indonesia, Perú, México, the US, Canada, Norway, Philippines, Singapur… truly a fantastic cultural experience to see M2M play live.

Credit to Mailén from Argentina, who organized the fan meetup at Oslo!

Then I also have to mention the fan groups. During the concert months, the community of creators around M2M became a hive of updates, photos and giveaways. During 2025, I was lucky enough to talk with some people that are really devoted and help the M2M fandom at times when the official media took a breather. People like m2m_music, m2m.oslo, ravenlarsenanthology to name a few. These people are approachable and make sure that fans, both old and new, feel welcome in the community. I’m lucky to be a part of that.

Of course I have to highlight m2m.mexico 🇲🇽, the fan group closest to me (literally and figuratively).

I’ve highlighted their posts in the past, but these groups helped everyone who couldn’t attend the concerts feel the energy. They highlighted amazing videos, translated interviews from Norwegian to English, even commissioned drawings and videos. All of this done because they love the group and they know that giving to a community (any community!) is all about expressing yourself. It’s art whose root is M2M’s art. If that isn’t beautiful, I don’t know what is.

Art that makes friendships and memories.

Yes, the concerts proved to be an incredible success for the group and the fandom. Every single fan that I met at the concerts had only good things to say about M2M, and Marit, and Marion. Some of them had met them previously, and would confirm every single positive rumor you’ve heard about them: they’re attentive, they’re considerate with their fans, they’ll make sure that fans get an experience out of the concert.

I was lucky enough to meet them. For a few minutes in OverOslo and then very briefly at the Oslo Sentrum Scene concerts. On a very personal note, the times I’ve met Marit and Marion have been exactly as described above and it makes me incredibly happy to say that the people behind the music are as lovely and graceful as their art.

🔜 What’s next?

After the last concert of 2025, things slowed down and with good reason: the last 6 months have been a barrage of interviews, stories, growth, and performing for the band. In addition, you probably already know but Marit is in Hver Gang Vi Møtes (a series that’ll come out this week!) and Marion is a judge at The Voice Norge. Their year has been explosive, so I’m sure the last few weeks have helped them regain their footing for an exciting 2026.

Next month (meaning January 2026) in México, M2M will perform their last known concert of the tour. There’s still tickets left, so this may be your last chance for a while to see them. Check out La Maraka’s webpage for more info; there’s even some Meet and Greet tickets left! If you do attend, be sure to say hello if you see me!

Then, Marit will begin touring in 2026. I’ve already highlighted this, but it’ll happen in 2026, so I thought I’d mention it again.

As for what’s next, well, I’m the unofficial newsletter 😉, so I have no idea what the band will do in 2026. I’ll tell you, though, that I’ll keep writing this newsletter as long as people read it and as long as M2M is active. So, here’s hoping 2026 is a great year for the band and for you, the fans.

📟 Band Trivia

There once was a band from the late 1900’s…

Did you know that M2M’s hit song Eventually was written in Chile? In an interview on the now defunct Marion2U website, Marion answers the question “What’s the quickest song you have ever written?”

“What's the quickest song you have ever written?
Marion: Ahh. 'Eventually' the bonus track as we were both in love whilst in Chile, sitting on top of this waterfall. It was soo romantic, we wrote 'Eventually' in a couple of hours after that.”

My sources are telling me we even have a picture of them atop this waterfall:

Original photo from Wikipedia.

That’s it for today’s newsletter. Thank you so much for reading!

Like I said, this is an unofficial, fan-made newsletter but if you liked it, feel free to share the newsletter with your friends, reply to this email, or reach me @fernando.writes.things.

See you soon 💜

– Fernando

💜 M2M Fans Newsletter #2

The unofficial M2M newsletter!

Happy M2M day everyone! Yesterday, M2M announced NEW dates for The Better Endings tour! They’re finally crossing the Atlantic (the ocean, not the record company) and coming to the land of tacos, warm people, and even warmer climate: beautiful México! 🇲🇽

There are some exciting news in this newsletter, so let’s get started!

As always, please remember to check the official sources. As much as I enjoy writing this newsletter and adding more commentary to certain items, there is no substitute for following M2M on their official accounts here 👇

🎸 The Better Endings Tour

Concerts in Norway, Thailand and Taiwan are coming up!

Kicking off in Jakarta, dazzling fans through SEA then pausing for a breather in Oslo, The Better Endings Tour has raged on for almost 5 months. There are no concerts planned for September, but the next leg of the tour is still planned for October and November:

• 🔜 October 10 @ Sentrum Scene, Oslo, Norway

• 🎊 SOLD OUT October 11 @ Sentrum Scene, Oslo, Norway

• 🇹🇭 November 22 @ One Bangkok Forum, Bangkok, Thailand

• 🇹🇼 November 24 @ Zapp New Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

And now, we know that they will continue touring in 2026! They’ve just announced a new date in México City. If you’re a Mexican fan, rejoice! Tickets are going fast though! Make sure to grab yours soon!

• 🇲🇽🆕 January 23, 2026 @ La Maraka, México City, México

• 🇲🇽🆕 January 24, 2026 @ La Maraka, México City, México

As an old-school fan (since 1999!), I was lucky enough to catch them in Oslo in June and I wrote about it here: M2M 💜 OverOslo: My Story. Spoiler alert: it was an incredible experience, and you should buy a ticket for one of the upcoming concerts.

I already have my tickets for Oslo and México City, so if you see me in the crowd, feel free to say hello!

🎤 Straight from the band

Posts from the official accounts. Keep up to date by following them!

🇲🇽 M2M is coming to México

I covered it in the above section, but it’s worth saying again. It’s official! The band is coming to México! The two links in the above section will take you to La Maraka’s official site to buy the tickets. If that doesn’t work, here’s the link to Ticketmaster for the 23rd and 24th of January 2026.

🎵 Marit is participating in _ Hver gang vi møtes _

Hver gang vi møtes (or Everytime we meet, in English) is a Norwegian TV show where a group of well-known Norwegian musicians spend time together at a countryside farm. There, they perform covers of another person’s songs in their own styles. Since this happens in a secluded and safe space, it’s often emotional and the covered artist will usually share personal stories or anecdotes about their music.

I cannot emphasize how much Marit deserves this kind of attention. Her songs (both as M2M and as a solo artist) are lyrically beautiful and to have them celebrated in this way feels right. I know the artists that will cover them will make each song justice while giving us a brand new version of their own. As fans, this is an unbelievably unique opportunity for us. Let’s support the artists’ renditions of Marit’s songs when they come out!

According to VG Live, the show will air on TV2 Play and TV2 Direct in January 2026. If anyone knows how to watch, let me know!

👦 Pretty Boy… in Norwegian?!

No, this is not the new song from Still in my dreams - EP, it’s a brand new song by Stig Brenner. The official M2M account shared Stig’s new song—Prettyboy—which samples M2M’s Pretty Boy and turns it into this amazing rap (!). You’ll very quickly recognize the Pretty Boy tune, followed by Norwegian rap. Stig is a 2x Spellemannprisen nominee, so you know it’s going to be a good song. Take a listen here: Apple Music, Spotify.

🪭 The (online) Fans

Online, the M2M-verse is buzzing with activity in social media and messaging groups.

🙋 Where do I start listening?

“After the break-up, I followed {either Marit or Marion}. Now, I want to catch up and listen to all of {the other M}’s music. Where do I start? Do I start chronollogically?”

I’ve seen this question pop-up in several places during the past few months. It’s a lovely question! Now that the band is back together, fans have a lot of amazing music to listen to!

For Marion’s music , the top recommendation was to start with Songs from a Blackbird, and from there you can explore. Her albums go in very different directions: from pop in her early solo career, to more dramatic and somber in Mellom disse 4 vegger.

For Marit’s music, I would personally recommend chronologically. Under the Surface is an absolute masterpiece of an album. However, some other fans said they’d start with When The Morning Comes which is a brighter, more pop-sounding album.

Let’s be honest: the only wrong choice is not to start. Both Marit and Marion are amazing singers and songwriters and I’m truly happy to have people discover them now because they have a lot of music to go through. Put on some decent headphones, press play, and enjoy the journey 🎵.

📰 Fan accounts

Speaking of fans, the fan accounts in the M2M-verse have been putting out amazing content. We’re lucky to have such a vibrant community thanks, in no small measure, to how much people love the M’s.

Surprise M2M PH fans!

It is no secret that Filipino fans are, collectively, the most devoted of M2M fans. And to celebrate that, Marit and Marion decided to have a live call with a group of fans organized by @m2m_ph!

This is absolutely one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long time. I love how approachable Marit and Marion are, and how amazing Filipino fans are.

💜

@m2m_music, @m2m_4ever, @m2m__vibessss, @ravnlarsenanthology and @gabybfreyre

This is a beautiful, beautiful video to celebrate a year of M2M being reunited. It’s made by the admins of the (unofficial) global M2M chat in Telegram but I have to highlight @m2m_music.

I’ve had the pleasure of interacting with m2m_music several times and every time it’s been a fantastic experience. It’s easy to see all the fan activity right now, but before the reunion I can’t think of a more active M2M fan account than m2m_music. I hope you see that all your efforts in keeping the fan community alive were worth it.

@m2m_ph

m2m_ph took the time to put together this beautiful carrousel of images with quotes from a recent article from VG where Marit talks about her friendship with Marion. Take a look at the photos, they’re wonderful.

Here’s the original article (paywalled, unfortunately). Also, disclaimer, I bought a subscription to VG.no so m2m_ph could work on this.

@m2mvibes

With the big reveal that M2M is coming to México–and being Mexican myself– I am almost forced to link to this beautiful rendition of Marion singing Når du sover, which m2mvibes has very kindly provided… with lyrics in Spanish! The video has English subtitles, but m2mvibes’ caption provides the lyrics in Spanish.

I consider myself lucky to hear Marion singing, period. However, it’s even more of an experience when she does it in Norwegian. Go and watch the video; it’ll give you chills.

@m2m_forever

Art is not something one can ignore or escape from. It’s this pressure that’s built inside you that you need to release somehow. Sometimes it’s writing (hello), sometimes it’s music, and sometimes it’s drawing.

This absolutely stunning timelapse of a pencil drawing of M2M by m2m_forever reminds me that there’s a lot of artists out there and they’re very talented. Take a minute to watch the video which includes, of course, M2M music.

📟 Band trivia

There once was a band from the late 1900’s…

M2M have one very famous song in Spanish: Todo Lo Que Haces. Translated by Jose Ramón Flórez, this song took the Hispanic world by storm in the early 2000’s. However! Do you know that’s not the only song M2M has sung in Spanish? Thanks to M2M historian Juan Pablo Hernandez, we know that there is a version of Love Left for Me in Spanish! Well, I may be overselling it… it’s more like a few verses 😬

It’s from the early 2000’s so of course it’s potato quality, but still, check it out!

That’s it for today’s newsletter. Thank you so much for reading!

Like I said, this is an unofficial, fan-made newsletter but if you liked it, feel free to share the newsletter with your friends, reply to this email, or reach me @fernando.writes.things.

See you soon 💜

– Fernando

💜 M2M Fans Newsletter #1

Welcome to the unofficial M2M newsletter!

Nearly a year after announcing their return, M2M mania is at an all-time high. Fans heard the call and attended in droves to their sold-out concerts. Dormant fan accounts have sprung back to life with the arrival of new content. And new fan accounts have found their first beginning – like this unofficial newsletter.

This newsletter will highlight some of the cool things happening in the M2M-verse, but to find the ultimate source of truth, you should follow their official channels on your social network of choice, and most certainly, their official newsletter!

• 💜 m2mofficial.com – sign up for their official newsletter here!

• 🟠 @marit2marion on Instagram

• ⚫️ @marit2marion on TikTok

• 🔵 @marit2marion on Facebook

The Better Endings Tour is the most important event in the M2M-verse right now, so let’s begin the newsletter there.

🎸 The Better Endings Tour

Concerts in Norway, Thailand and Taiwan are coming up!

Kicking off in Jakarta, dazzling fans through SEA then pausing for a breather in Oslo, The Better Endings Tour has raged on for almost 4 months. There are no concerts planned for September, but the next leg of the tour is still planned for October and November:

• 🔜 October 10 @ Sentrum Scene, Oslo, Norway

• 🎊 SOLD OUT October 11 @ Sentrum Scene, Oslo, Norway

• 🇹🇭 November 22 @ One Bangkok Forum, Bangkok, Thailand

• 🇹🇼 November 24 @ Zapp New Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

As an old-school fan (since 1999!), I was lucky enough to catch them in Oslo in June and I wrote about it here: M2M 💜 OverOslo: My Story. Spoiler alert: it was an incredible experience, and you should buy a ticket for one of the upcoming concerts.

🎤 Straight from the band

Posts from the official accounts. Keep up to date by following them!

🇹🇭 Taipei and Bangkok : Of course the biggest news of the month is the announcement of two new dates for The Better Endings tour. Tickets are still available for these concerts, get them while you can!

🎙️ Interview by Pat, a fan : WHAT?! This came out of nowhere but the band uploaded a video where Pat, a fan, interviewed them. Talk about a dream come true! Pat brought great energy to the interview and asked them genuinely fun questions.

👩🏻‍⚖️ Marion will be a judge in Norway’s The Voice : Does anyone know how I can participate in Norway’s edition of The Voice next year? Asking for a friend :-)

🪭 The (online) Fans

Online, the M2M-verse is buzzing with activity in social media and messaging groups. Here’s the latest scoop.

🧞‍♂️ Fan Wishes

During my conversations with fans I heard a couple of wishes that resonated with the community, especially for what fans are calling M2Mtember:

• “a new song then it will be new music video then new album then more tour and promo in btw. Never ending list.” - m2mvibes

• “I want to ask about also their reflections from the Asia stop and how the reunion meant for their lives now” - Matt

Other wishes were all about new songs, giving fans more peeks behind the scenes, and their expectations for this coming September 22. 🤞🏻

📰 Fan accounts

Speaking of fans, the fan accounts in the M2M-verse have been putting out amazing content. We’re lucky to have such a vibrant community thanks, in no small measure, to how much people love the M’s.

@m2m_music (Instagram)
Marion’s new gig as a mentor in Norway’s The Voice isn’t the first time she’ll help up and coming singers.

Marion has been an X Factor judge in the past and in this short video, posted by m2m_music, Marion goes on to give feedback to two girls auditioning for a spot. m2m_music themselves translated it from Norwegian (!) and double checked with a native speaker. If that’s not dedication, I don’t know what is.

@m2mthepurpleroomph (Instagram)

Attention all M2M fans! To celebrate the upcoming anniversary of the M2M reunion, The Purple Room PH is running a song cover contest and a ticket giveaway! How cool is that?

The song contest requires you to record yourself live (no backing track!) and the concert tickets giveaway requires a bit of participation (like! comment! subscribe!) 😁

@m2m_ph

The reunion not only brought a lot of us together; it also brought the best of us out. @m2m_ph has been hitting it out of the park with these heartfelt short monologues on Instagram.

This one is about Marit and how her songs have carved a place in each of our hearts. As a Marit fan since Under The Surface, it hits pretty close to home. It’s one of those pieces that, as a writer, I wish I’d written. Bravo!

📟 Band trivia

There once was a band from the late 1900’s…

Did you know that M2M’s Shades of Purple was a Billboard 200 Pacesetter in April 29, 2000? A Pacesetter is an album that has had the biggest % growth among albums that week.

That’s it for today’s newsletter. Thank you so much for reading!

Like I said, this is an unofficial, fan-made newsletter but if you liked it, feel free to share the newsletter with your friends, reply to this email, or reach me @fernando.writes.things.

See you soon 💜

– Fernando