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Vanessa Carlton => General Vanessa Carlton Discussion => Topic started by: tricia on May 23, 2003, 06:57:11 pm
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Singer/songwriter Vanessa Carlton is about to hit the studio to record her sophomore A&M album, with an eye on an early 2004 release.
"I have to finish three songs, and I'd like to go into the studio with all the songs finished," she tells Billboard. The artist will co-produce the album with a number of collaborators, including A&M president Ron Fair, Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins, and possibly Jason Falkner.
"It's a way of bringing in tastes and sensibilities that I wouldn't normally be open to," she says.
Carlton says the new album will show the progression she has made from her first record, "Be Not Nobody," which has sold 1.3 million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.
"I wrote some of those songs when I was very young. I know what I like in terms of sounds a bit more than I did then. The new music is very organic, sort of Beatles-like. The songs are very poignant, but they aren't girl diary lyrics anymore."
While prepping for the new album, Carlton also found time to record the theme song for the action/combat racing game "SpyHunter 2," which may also be turned into a feature film.
The artist also appeared as Dusty Springfield in the NBC series "American Dreams," and her cover of "Wishin' and Hopin"' is included on the show's Hip-O/Universal soundtrack album, released earlier this month.
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Thanks for posting it!
"I have to finish three songs, and I'd like to go into the studio with all the songs finished," she tells Billboard. The artist will co-produce the album with a number of collaborators, including A&M president Ron Fair, Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins, and possibly Jason Falkner.
At least that gives me a little hope that the damn Jenkins wont ruin the album completely.
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LMAO...you boys are terrible
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LMAO...you boys are terrible
for real...
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Yay!! Stephan and Vanessa in the same song.Its gonna be so awesome!!
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I agree with vulture I'm glad ron fair is still producing because jenkins can't compare to him .As long as fair stays involved in the record I think it will have a better chance of being succesful .
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awesome!!
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are the new songs she sings on tour going to be on there?? (probably the stupidist question, but i don't know the answer...)
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are the new songs she sings on tour going to be on there?? (probably the stupidist question, but i don't know the answer...)
Probably most. But not all. When an artist does them live like that, they get a feeling for crowd reaction...
We wont know for sure till we see the tracklisting.
Ex: MBdid several new live tunes over the past year or so. and about 90% of it made the new album tracklist. But there was a few that got left off. (Why the hell didnt she include "Fall"?!!)
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Yeah, I liked Fall... oops, back on topic ;)
Thanks for posting the article... sounds pretty good. :)
-Brian
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Michelle has said that she wrote a lot of those songs ("fall" "standing on the edge" etc) on the road and played them at all her shows and she got sick of them... so she forgot about them for awhile and when it came time for her to do the record she had a bunch of new songs to put on it.
I haven't heard all the new songs... but of the few I've heard I like "papa" the most I think :)
jessica
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Screw Fall...it's all about Standing on the Edge
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Cool, well we will see what the next album will be like. I don't like the beatles so much but I'm sure vc will kick some butt anywho. The beatles are ok but not awesome in my opinion. I mean the sound is cool but I don't really think it is the greatest. But of course the beatles and vanessa are different artists so we will see when the next album comes out. Keep up the great work vc.
I wonder if there are any classical influences in her life now and in what she likes as far a sound? The great thing about ATM is the classical influence I think... I know that it is not classical music but I still can feel the influence in it.
rock on vc
tylor
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"early 2004?"
....what happened to November?
:cry:
oh well, ...i guess
more time=better :?
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When I interviewed her last November, she said they were shooting for a late 2003/early 2004 release...I'm not surprised they're now saying the latter
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The artist will co-produce the album with a number of collaborators, including A&M president Ron Fair
I'm more worried about Fair screwing up the album than Jenkins. Honestly, I think the work he did on BNN was horrible. Sure, he made many of the songs radio friendly. But, he screwed over her voice. It's beautiful as is. Leave it that way.
Fair should never be allowed to touch a DAW again. Or even a mixer for that matter. And why the heck did they dump the Buckmaster arrangements on Rinse (album, not the single track)?
Is it just me or do you guys also prefer the production on Rinse? Now if only I had better recordings than those 128kbps mp3s....
I'm still hopeful that Fair won't screw things up too much this time around. I seriously like what I have been hearing on the tour. With killer songs like these, he can't screw things up THAT much.
Bleh....
(I'm just being bitter for no reason. Ignore me or something.)
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Is it just me or do you guys also prefer the production on Rinse? Now if only I had better recordings than those 128kbps mp3s....
"soon" BHAHAHA the joke of the year. The CD rips are coming "soon".
I'm still hopeful that Fair won't screw things up too much this time around. I seriously like what I have been hearing on the tour. With killer songs like these, he can't screw things up THAT much.
And if the album does end up sucking ass, I will just blaim it on the damn Jenkins.
(I'm just being bitter for no reason. Ignore me or something.)
I love a good VC related rant so I chose "something"
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"soon" BHAHAHA the joke of the year. The CD rips are coming "soon".
The question is if these things will be at 128k or not. High bitrate mp3s and FLAC rock my socks! :D
Regardless, I'm happier with the rips out there then I would be without. I love the arrangements.
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The question is if these things will be at 128k or not. High bitrate mp3s and FLAC rock my socks! :D
lmao once I get the CD, I'll rip those fuckers at 320 if ya want.
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lmao once I get the CD, I'll rip those fuckers at 320 if ya want.
That would be utterly kickass.
Hmm... CD labeling kit, ink jet printer, pretty much orginal quality audio, too much free time..... yes. Let me reaffirm that. That would be utterly kickass.