Nothing new, but i think it's good publicity.
http://fashion.elle.com/fashion/insider/2011/07/25/first-listen-vanessa-carltons-new-song/Vanessa Carlton’s new album, her fourth, comes out tomorrow. Rabbits on the Run was produced by Steve Osborne and recorded at Peter Gabriel’s recording studio in Box, England. Carlton spent years writing the ten tracks, which were finally recorded on tape: “The end goal was how it would sound on vinyl,” she said.
We hopped on the phone with Carlton to talk about “I Don’t Want to be a Bride,” the track we’re exclusively premiering here. It was the hardest song for her to write, and the most personal. “It’s really easy to write things that have happened in the past, or what hasn’t happened yet. But when you’re in it…I wrote 13 to 15 pages of single paced teeny font typed pages of lyrics,” she said. It took her over a year to edit it down to something sort of resembling a song, and even then Osborne had to step in and take the editing reins.
Carlton compares the song to old-school country ballads, but feels most triumphant about the song’s message. “What about the other side of the argument?” she said, referring to the hundreds of songs women sing about wanting to get married. “What about if it’s more about what love is? And what it can be? And it has nothing to do with the confines or the tradition of any of that?”
If it sounds like Carlton’s grown up, wait until you hear the album. Click through to hear “I Don’t Want to be a Bride.”
