Alison Goldfrapp recently spoke to Vanity Fair Daily on her new single CLOWNS among other topics.
VF Daily: Has the press exaggerated how mellow the new album is?
AG: Um … it is quite mellow. You know, whatever.
VFD: You don’t care.
AG: Not really. Even the up tunes are quite sort of joyous. They’re not hard.
VFD: You get a lot done in the song “Clowns” with just two verses. It still feels like a big song. How do you do that?
AG: I don’t know. I suppose it’s lyrical in the way the melodies are weaving and … yeah … it’s a simple structure, but complex in the melody. I don’t know how it happened.
VFD: That song has some sadness in the lyric about what people will do to themselves to look a certain way.
AG: It’s strange, how it happened like that. It’s not a criticism. It’s just an observation. I was watching a lot of really trashy TV at the time. I suppose it’s that thing where you’re looking at trashy TV going, “Oh, this is awful,” but you can’t stop looking at it.
The new song can be found below...
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