Beth Ditto: 'I'm constantly learning how to be confident'

now in his 30s, Beth Ditto - priorities and his music are changing. Here he talks about his upcoming marriage and how Abba became an influence on the last album Gossip

Beth Ditto is extremely unflappable, even at the end of a long day with a schedule that begins to tear at the seams. As people whirl around, armed with brushes, cameras and laptops, which is quiet and unhurried caring encouraging. "Forward!" Happily called me, because I feel he is dragged to your next appointment. "You do what you gotta do!" in part, as explained to me that education marked by poverty and hard work makes him eminently realistic about your life now - "Once you start getting a little lower on it I'm just going to feel, do not go to the factory "- and some of that beautiful does not seem a part of his character. It was obvious that he likes a certain type of device - suits smooth, the composition seems wild - but in conversation, it is immensely to land and natural girlishness jumping smiling as she talks about her upcoming marriage to a development franca of the last round music made by the gossip, the band has faced since its inception in 1999.

studio album is the fifth group,

A Joyful Noise

, the first since 2009

Music

for men

, Ditto has been on the road today. And there's plenty to talk. Gossip has always been difficult to classify - with his first works most often labeled as punk or indie rock, were also influenced by soul, gospel, country, hip hop, electro, dance, funk, disco and garage music. But

A Joyful Noise

, produced by Brian Higgins, who has worked with Kylie, Pet Shop Boys' and Girls Aloud, is unapologetically bold, brazen and very accessible - and a world far from simple three-chord punk tradition difficult. Sometimes you can close your eyes and think you were listening to Madonna, to

Ray of Light

, in other 80 shots end synth electro remember Blondie. And it could be me, but the introduction of hip-hop of "Get a Job," a precautionary measure, not a prude to stoop and take responsibility for your life, gives way to a bass line that sounds almost as. .. Kraftwerk. And then, of course, is not Abba, the band heard his confident Ditto for the year that the album had to do. There, he says, is intrigued by the possibilities of songs that were built with precision and product: ... "That's the thing about Abba are zero hardness that is so incredible that I think I'm really in love with it now because it's not used to listening to music. I ' I never noticed before. " A 31, The same is, of course, too young to have been the first to Abba, but he acknowledges that his mother eclectic musical tastes, with the expansion of their own listening habits to an early age beginning. That, and growing up in Arkansas, where, paradoxically, the lack of music available - "we had a record store, we have Wal-Mart" - and the lack of funds led to unexpected discoveries, often Through a rigorous analysis through garage sales. She and fellow founding member of Gossip Howdeshell Nathan (aka Brace Paine), who also grew up in Arkansas, often speak now "why we are so connected to music old, it is because they are not necessarily related to pop music, even. if he heard it and we knew and loved on one level, but we wanted more, so the only other option was to early music, as it was the kind of thing you might find. It was cheaper .. also: was $ 10 for a cassette and 99 cents for an old cassette And you can have four, or 10 and has always been very exciting "..

His speech enthusiastically jump to Abba Nina Simone, Paul Simon and Loretta Lynn, who said she is appealing especially to her because of how she brought her accent in her singing; Ditto, whose musical education was limited to the crossing of the school choir, he learned to take his southern accent in her voice. But those are not the rules that most savoring this moment of rupture. Instead, he explains, he is reacting against a kind of orthodoxy that for a long time, she did not even know it. "I've always been very confident in myself, my voice, I as a person, my body, all these things, but as a composer - I do not identify themselves as a composer at all, "he said. Except he did write songs, I draw." I did. And I did not even know that was what I was doing. I never let myself feel the joy of it, ever. I can not explain. "

People

(actually, the "gossip", when they started) had to do with punk since the beginning - not unusual, because the music is relatively simple and cheap to make, and instantly gives also its practitioners a certain image of confrontation and marginalization. For Ditto, who grew up as a lesbian in the very religious small-town America was liberating, even if it now says: ". I think I made the release too far, where it might not seem like Abba" What mean, I think, is that all the focus on removing barriers became, ultimately, a barrier in itself.

"This is not because the punk scene is a bad place, but I feel like the way he plays, there were many rules to follow to be part of the scene, and I was very aware of these rules. In the genre of punk that comes from it was so important for girls to have confidence, so important for women to empower others. He took the music academy, the remove radical movements such as feminism and social movements, making it accessible to all, what worked and it was incredible, but at the same time, when you're young and impressionable, I think you can get these rules in your head. I know I have this rule in my head, I had to be a certain way, but I do not know until I get older. "

Turning 30 last year, he said, was an important step. At that time, his career - in the context of gossip and one of the most recognizable faces and open the music industry - has been well established. The band had released four studio albums and live albums

Dead in New York

and

Live in Liverpool

. He drew widespread attention with his 2006 album

Standing in the way of control

, which launched shortly after drummer Hannah Blilie had taken the place of member the original tape, Kathy Mendonca. The record for the title song, a hymn to attack the opposition of the Bush administration's same-sex marriage, has been exceptionally well, becoming very popular in this country for gossip to carry out the has Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

, and also on the soundtrack of teen drama

Skins

• Meanwhile, staff Ditto - not music - a profile is rising. In the same year as
Standing in the way of control

who led the

NME

's annual list of cold. Three years later, both covered and removed, launching its own line of clothes for larger size chain Evans Street and appearing naked - except for a piece of shocking pink fig and an expression of bliss - on the cover of the first edition

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