7/1/2023 0 Comments Ispeak 2003 edition![]() Goldfrapp’s vocals are dressed in reverb and dabbed in synths – some are icy and sparse, others romantic and bubbly. Recorded in a home studio set up in the pandemic, The Love Invention is a breathless dance-pop album, a 11-song parade lent extra lustre by producers including Röyksopp and Richard X. Then I started listening again and it was, like, wa-heyy!” “‘What was that? Woooo!’ ‘That sounds phwoaaar.’ It’s a bit like doing homework. When I listen to music, I go in there, you know? I’m thinking, ‘How did they do that?’” She becomes incredibly animated. “But I sang in the car a lot, and that’s where I started to regain my love.” She fell out of love with music? “I’m being a bit overdramatic – I suppose I just needed to recalibrate my brain. “I didn’t listen to any music, because I needed to have a purge,” she says. ‘That was one of the things I was going to take out!’: Lucinda Williams on her soul-baring memoirĪfter she toured her band’s last album together, 2017’s Silver Eye, Goldfrapp took a solo trip to America, where she rented a car and spent weeks driving across the desert.Part of me thinks he got out of here just in time’ Stephen Stills: ‘Part of me misses David Crosby dreadfully.Jessie Ware: ‘I self-loathed and apologised for myself for far too long’.“That was a weird little story I just told you.” Anyway…” Goldfrapp sighs, grimaces and hugs her knee. All I could say back was, ‘I really like your pink jumper’. “He said, ‘This is gonna be really big.’ And I just wanted to cry. “I thought, ‘this man’s gonna fail me – he’s gonna boot me off.’”Īfter the performance, Cowell stomped on over to a flustered Goldfrapp and offered some words of industry wisdom. “He was very polite but I just found him so unnerving.” Goldfrapp remembers when they met: a shared appearance on a US talk show in 2005, the talent show maestro in a “fluffy pink cashmere jumper” and standing arms folded and beady-eyed as Goldfrapp sang and vamped on stage. “Bloody whatshisname – Simon Cowell!” Goldfrapp recalls, her voice strikingly deadpan for someone who sounds so sultry on stereo. The band named after her, which produced sweaty Noughties hits including “Strict Machine” and “Ooh La La”, helped craft the image of Goldfrapp as an electropop ringmaster with Rocky Horror hair, or a torch singer gone berserk. You have an attraction with an awesome number of potential levels – an endless hallway, a ballroom, a stretching room, a corridor of knocking doors.Īnd yet the part I remember most is the haunted kitchen.Few musicians have ever seemed as brooding or impervious as Alison Goldfrapp. ![]() There is a willful disdain of the Haunted Mansion source material. It’s basically a precursor to Nintendo’s much more successful Luigi Mansion series. The gameplay itself involves some legitimately creepy ghosts that seem more at home in a Blumhouse horror movie than in a family-friendly extravaganza from the Walt era.Įven more annoying is that it is the exact same idea as that awful Haunted Mansion level from Adventures in the Magic Kingdom! Kill x number of ghosts with your candle and beat the stage. And both the ride and the Haunted Mansion GameCube version are set in New Orleans.īut that’s where the similarities end. ![]() I guess the actual Haunted Mansion has a famous caretaker. Michael Richards of Seinfeld fame plays janitor Stanley Spadowski. In this case, UHF starring the incomparable Weird Al Yankovic. Hey look! It’s another reference to a 1980s movie.
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