New interview she reveals on how Natalia Kills felt like and act and mentions working with Ronnie who if you're a big stan know is her biggest inspiration
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Walk us through your journey from Natalia Kills to where you are today with Cruel Youth.
Walk you through? Ok… The last couple of years toward the end of performing solo was like walking on a landfill of nails and broken glass. Everything felt like a wrong step in a bad direction. I had started the band right around my 2nd solo album release… But I was becoming exhausted and disoriented being told by my label and team (at the time) that everything I did and recorded was too ‘edgy and unapproachable’. Eventually I felt like Natalia Kills was being photoshopped, auto-tuned and edited into a character loosely based off a version of me I no longer could connect with. So I spent over 6 months locked in my studio with Willy (my husband, Virgin EMI recording artist) and we just made music that we loved. No team, no label, no one even heard the records and I didn’t really see friends or answer the phone. It’s pure. Cruel Youth is like walking on a marble ballroom in glass slippers. It’s a beautiful dream I can’t seem to wake up from.
What are you plans with 2017 being just around the corner?
I don’t make a lot of plans I just hang out and write songs most of the time. I was hanging out with Ronnie Spector recently and we were both excited to collaborate on something, which is a trip because she’s a queen. We’re starting to work on new music so playing shows will be even more wild. To be perfectly honest I’m most excited to go to the movies with Willy and watch Trainspotting 2… That might be the highlight of 2017… I really live for the simple things.
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