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How Beyonce influenced Stephen Patterson & White Rabbits
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It seems like you made a conscious effort to dissociate yourself from Spoon by saying you were influenced by Beyonce. When I was listening to 4, I have to say I didn’t really hear Beyonce in your new record.
I never said that I was trying to dissociate myself from Spoon. I said I was influenced by Beyonce because I was influenced by Beyonce. I’m not actively trying to pursue a disassociation from the decisions people make to tie us to Spoon, whatever they want to infer. I don’t say something like that to get a rise out of people. I don’t think it’s funny. I don’t think it’s ironic. It’s a sincere appreciation.
When I listened to her latest record, what I really loved about it was that track “I Miss You”. That track is incredible. I love that song! I’m not really a fan of “Best Thing I Never Had”, which is the next track, but it still is so different from the track before it, you know? Like, the first two tracks on Milk Famous, “Heavy Metal” and “I’m Not Me”, have nothing to do with each other.
The way she convincingly gets inside each of these songs that each have certain emotions they’re trying to convey… it’s something every singer should be doing. She doesn’t only get into the emotion of it all, and you can feel that she’s inside the song, but she also has these soundscapes that are in Destiny’s Child party mode, but also accomplishing a lot of things.
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