May-to-December, cross-genre collaborations maybe aren't the surprise they once were. When, in 1977, David Bowie dropped in to Bing Crosby's Christmas TV special to record a version of Little Drummer Boy, it was enough of a shock that the song appeared on bootlegs for several years before being officially released as a single in 1982. Now, though, thanks to the raft of duets albums bringing us pairings such as Frank Sinatra and Bono, and Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, there is perhaps less of a frisson.
Nevertheless, there are still some combinations that can raise an eyebrow. If, for example, Alice Cooper were to record a follow-up to his 1975 album Welcome to My Nightmare, and was seeking someone to play the role of the devil, you might expect him to summon one his shock-rock heirs – Rob Zombie, perhaps, or someone from Slipknot. You might not expect his collaborator to be trash-pop princess Ke$ha. However, that's her on What Baby Wants, Baby Gets, on Cooper's new album, Welcome 2 My Nightmare. That Iggy Pop/Miley Cyrus team-up is only a matter of time.
"I'd love that," says Cooper when I moot the idea of the Stooge duetting with Hannah Montana at the start of my conversation with him and Ke$ha.
"Who ****ing knows, man?" Ke$ha says, sounding less bratlike and more businesslike than you might imagine. "You really can't stereotype people or put them in boxes, it's unfair. You never know what an artist is going to create next."
Interview Highlights:
You've written a song for Britney. What do you think she and the other young women of mainstream pop make of you?
Ke$ha: I'm not really concerned with what people think of me and that's what I've really built my career upon, so I have no idea.
Cooper:
I think, knowing those girls, Ke$ha would get along with Gaga. Because they're both more outrageous than the others. Katy Perry is outrageous in a Sleeping Beauty kind of way. Ke$ha and Gaga are more arch.
Ke$ha, when you first came along, did people miss the sense of play about what you do?
Ke$ha: They missed the tongue-in-cheek aspect. What I'm doing is art – it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.
So you're not trashy, you're satirising that?
Ke$ha: It's a little bit of a satire.
You've both made cameos at each other's shows. Whose audience is scariest?
Cooper: There's metal audiences that are pretty dangerous, that if you fell in it would be like falling into a pit of piranhas. But they like Ke$ha because she doesn't come off like a pop diva. She comes off like a tough street kid.
Ke$ha: And I have big **** and blond hair – why wouldn't they like me?
Full interview at source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011...?newsfeed=true
I chuckled at Ke$ha stating that her big boobs and blonde hair would have everyone like her :P
