Alison Goldfrapp
Alison Goldfrapp
Alison Elizabeth Margaret Goldfrappis an English musician and record producer, best known as the lead vocalist of the electronic music duo Goldfrapp...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth13 May 1966
antidote craziness freaks great loveliness though
I live on the edge of Bath. It's really lovely, but its very loveliness freaks me out a bit. It's peaceful, a great antidote to the craziness of being on tour, but sometimes I feel as though I've retired.
bored cool great interested met music people relate seemed though
But what's great about working with Will is that I was so bored of working with people who seemed to be much more interested in what was cool or fashionable. Will is very open-minded and even though he's classically trained, he's the only person I've ever met that I feel I can relate to musically. He understands how I think about music and vice-versa.
heard pops top
I think I heard it once on Top Of The Pops and thought it was very bland,
loads music songs wrote
I was clear that I wanted to do music and I wanted to write songs. But I wasn't clear about how I was going to make that happen. I wrote loads of songs but didn't want to show them to anyone.
identity music separate
It's like they're a separate identity to the whole music and imagery,
bowels cinema entering love
I love entering the bowels of the cinema and immersing myself in another world.
favorite hard job pick record tune whatever whose
It's so hard to pick a 'single.' I always want it to be whatever my favorite tune is, but often the record company and the person whose job it is to take it to radio have different ideas.
generic level personal relate seem suppose understand
They seem to have these personalities that are very generic and so I can't really relate to them. I suppose I can't really relate to it on a personal level at all, because you never really understand where the personal comes into what they do.
people sort
People say that sort of thing and I just think, nah,
blue brad great pitt sat shot
We shot it on blue screen, so it was this great big ugly, metal, weird, jerky horse-thing that Brad Pitt had sat on.
dad ignore
My dad used to ignore me when I was a kid. He couldn't stand my voice, so he just used to ignore me, and then he'd impersonate me.
thinking people singing
Saying that you've got acoustic instruments and that's traditional and so people will think it's more intimate, that will always be the case. It's a more intimate sound, so it's going to sound more direct whatever you're singing about.
folks folk-music
There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.
bored albums
You don't get bored making an album.