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Album: Natalia Kills - 'TROUBLE'
Member Since: 8/30/2012
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Originally posted by HOD
'Perfectionist was a great album, but how did you feel about its commercial performance?
"I mean, I just can't believe it. I had nowhere to live. I was staying on the floor of a hostel in Earls Court for over a year and then I did a bunch of bad s**t, got on a plane to LA and then two years later I had sold over 800,000 singles. I was flying business class and staying in suites and penthouses - I can't f**king believe it. I wrote 14 songs and that's what happened? My life was changed forever. If you would have asked me, the person sleeping on the floor in Earls Court, 'You're 26 - where are you?' I would never have thought this. I would have probably thought I was dead by now. Or a stripper."
This is such a good answer cause they were trying to make her say that it flopped.
Other pop stars could learn from this tbh, Natalia maybe acts like a rich kid and is pretentious in some people's eyes but she's more down to earth than most of them think because she saw the low side of life and got out of it.
She doesn't care about #1's, she just wants to live luxuriously but still make good music.
She is a role model.
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Exactly! When I read that answer I was really shocked by her intelligence, cause they were obviously trying to make her say something about its underperformance.
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Originally posted by fired
My cover for the album:
Kept some of the elements of the official cover (roses, handcuffs, lipstick, drink...) but with a different twist  |
This is amazing!
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Member Since: 1/16/2011
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"The album is like a collage of all of the worst memories and worst mistakes I've ever made," says the 26-year-old singer.
Want a preview of Natalia Kills' sophomore album "Trouble" before its Sept. 3 release on Will.i.am/Cherrytree/Interscope Records? Just take a gander at its striking artwork:
The U.K. singer-songwriter personally stuffed a bunch of goodies into that breathtaking image, and every detail in the artwork -- from the Rolex wrapped around a lipstick case to the pink liquid bleeding down the sides of the square -- represents a different lyrical theme in the tight, edgy follow-up to her 2011 debut, "Perfectionist."
"The album is like a collage of all of the worst memories and worst mistakes I've ever made," the singer tells Billboard. "I wanted the cover to be a real collage of all of the items and articles and moments that I talk about in the album… I got all of the different objects and had to print them out on photo paper and then physically cut them out and make the whole collage."
The first sound one hears on "Trouble" is the wailing of a police siren, and from there, the 26-year-old singer presents a hypnotic, 53-minute retrospective of her various life troubles over dark, swirling pop production. There are references to an awkward childhood -- the singer's Jamaican father and Uruguayan mother were constantly moving from place to place, and often clutching bottles of champagne during the turbulence -- and her experience of "trying to be a grown-up and just making a ****ing mess of it." Kills says that her favorite track on the album is the thumping love song "Daddy's Girl," which samples Hall & Oates' "Rich Girl" and explores her mother's devotion to her father while he was in prison.
"I’m 26 now and I kind of get it," she says of her mother's decision to remain supportive. "There’s a lyric in the song where I’m saying, 'Let them take it all the way / The sweet Rozay, the Cartier/ Stop the warden, call your name / I’d give you all my freedom, babe.' It’s basically like, I’d trade all of these luxurious things we’ve ever had just to have you come back to me. So that’s what the champagne and Rolex symbolizes on the cover."
Kills admits that the version of herself presented on "Trouble" wasn't wholly accessible on "Perfectionist," which carried a lighter tone and has sold 14,000 copies to date, according to Nielsen SoundScan. "When I made my first album, I was not as aware of... how I was," she carefully explains."The whole album was about me having dreams and wanting everything to perfect, when everything was not. I almost had a bit of fear where everybody wants to be loved, everybody wants to be understood in a way that’s not full of judgment or blame. So I put all of myself into the album and then [kept] bits out – it’s not lying, it’s just selective truth-ing, if you know what I mean.
"I feel with this album… I'm confronting and marking down every bad thing, and making that into something important," she continues, "because all that bad stuff, it stays with you, it defines you, it changes you. Whether it’s through strength or apprehension, through fear and hesitation or defiance and overcoming, it never leaves you. And I wanted to confront who I am and who I’ve been and everything that made me why I am how I am head-on -- and most of it's bad, but that doesn’t mean it’s not good music, good intentions, good entertainment, even."
Recorded in New York and Los Angeles, "Trouble" features collaborations with producers Jeff Bhasker and Emile Haynie, and has been previewed by the tracks "Problem" and "Saturday Night." Click here to watch an exclusive behind-the-scenes clip on the "Problem" music video, which has scored 1.1 million YouTube views to date.
Before next month's album release, Kills says that she will perform most of the new album at an official after-party for the MTV Video Music Awards, taking place in Brooklyn on Aug. 25. "I'm working hard towards making something on stage that is remotely accurate to what the [artwork] is and what the songs sound like," she says.
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Source: http://www.billboard.com/articles/co...o-confront-who
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Member Since: 8/18/2010
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I'm not here for her performing at the after party but its a start 
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Member Since: 3/27/2012
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Are we going to be getting any recordings from that performance?
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Originally posted by aleik2
I'm not here for her performing at the after party but its a start |
so at least MTV give her a shot instead of paying her to dust this time. we should be happy about that right?
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Member Since: 11/11/2011
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Wait they said that Trouble opens with a police siren. Are they referring to Problem, the first single. Or like the actual opening to Trouble: Television?
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Member Since: 4/11/2012
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Originally posted by jagger88788
Wait they said that Trouble opens with a police siren. Are they referring to Problem, the first single. Or like the actual opening to Trouble: Television?
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Idk for sure, but it might be for Television cus the first line in it, stated by Natalia, is "Hello Mr Officer, we're just having fun... you can take the hand cuffs off, I promise we won't run.
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Member Since: 11/11/2011
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Omg those lyrics are hurting my soul. They're so good.
Ps this might be a lot of work but could someone make like a master post with all of the lyrics we have from each song so far? Cause I feel like I missed all of them when she said them.
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Member Since: 7/30/2010
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Originally posted by jagger88788
Omg those lyrics are hurting my soul. They're so good.
Ps this might be a lot of work but could someone make like a master post with all of the lyrics we have from each song so far? Cause I feel like I missed all of them when she said them.
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here: nataliakills.net/trouble/ - under "confirmed lyrics"
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Member Since: 11/11/2011
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Ahhh that's perfect. Thanks!
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THIS ERA WILL BE ****ING FABULOUS
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Member Since: 2/29/2012
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I am going to love this album, I just know it. I can't believe there hasn't been a single thing I've disliked so far from it.
“I put my high heels on so I’m closer to God”— Stop Me 
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Holy **** that interview was great. Less than 1 month guys!
I'm happy that the songs did not leak v early unlike before.
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Member Since: 2/29/2012
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The cover is beautiful, 'Controversy' is beautiful, 'Problem' is beautiful, 'Saturday Night' is beautiful, the lyrics are beautiful, the MVs are great, every interview so far is good, the shoots are great, hell I even use 'Feel Myself'.
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Member Since: 3/29/2012
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Closer and closer everyday
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Thanks, I've been wanting to re-look at those lyrics she twatted a while ago as well.
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Member Since: 8/7/2012
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I'm waiting everyday for someone to leak this
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Member Since: 3/29/2012
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Originally posted by WONDERMAN
I'm waiting everyday for someone to leak this
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Won't leak until the last week of August. Mark my words 
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Member Since: 1/11/2012
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I loved Controversy when it came out, but I never got around to her music.
SHE IS SO UNDERRATED  I'm so late, but that hook & bridge on Problem>>>>>>> Her versatility on Saturday Night>>> 
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