Musically she seems to take it a bit easier on yet her fourth studio album, but looks can be deceiving. We dared to call "Seventh Tree" a rather 'folky' album, which resulted in a long,semantic discussion about the adjective 'folky'. Eventually la Goldfrapp calms down, but it's obvious that she's not all that confident about the reception of her new album.
With this message I wanted to get ahead of all those wankers who'd invade our messageboard with angry reactions. You know, even dirty e-mails from perverted fans are still a bit touching. I like to compare them to those frustrated old men in Benny Hill sketches : sad and sexist, but still funny.
I love to read what goes on in some people's heads when they listen to my songs. But if there's one thing that gets on my nerves, it's disappointed e-mails from fans who are sad that we didn't make a new Black Cherry. After a couple of years of glampop and discobeats we were just looking forward to doing something else. And it's become a slow, minimal, ambientrecord. What was your direct inspiration for that song? Actually the real inspiration for that song was a televisionshow where women were filmed while getting a boobjob in plastic surgery.
That kind of scream for attention and pure exhibitionism makes me want to throw up. Gross,stupid cows, that's what they are. Who's the bigger idiot ; the woman with fake,silicon breast or the voyeur who's watching that sort of crap? It's the same with Big Brother. I sometimes find myself watching those green images of sleeping people for an hour and a half in the middle of the night, asking myself why I'm not sleeping.
At times like that I see myself as an idiot too. In the end, we're all idiots. Alison : "Oh, I didn't know 'Mulholland Drive' even had a screenplay laughs.
