{"id":12521,"date":"2010-06-17T16:57:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T15:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-98520-280723.cloudwaysapps.com\/eq-interview-with-babydaddy-of-scissor-sisters\/"},"modified":"2010-06-17T16:57:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T15:57:37","slug":"eq-interview-with-babydaddy-of-scissor-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eqmusicblog.com\/eq-interview-with-babydaddy-of-scissor-sisters\/","title":{"rendered":"EQ Interview With Babydaddy Of Scissor Sisters – “I Would Rather Hate Something Than Just LIKE It.”"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a> In case you haven't heard, the almighty Scissor Sisters<\/strong> are releasing a new album called "Night Work" <\/strong>at the end of the month and we've already chatted to Ana Matronic<\/strong> about it and last week, we got to ask Babydaddy <\/strong>a few questions about it as well. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n In this EQ interview with Babydaddy<\/strong>, we talk about the sound of "Night Work" and what they were trying to capture in it's sound, some of the key tracks on the new album, filming the "Fire With Fire"<\/strong> video and Babydaddy's<\/strong> thoughts on being a sex symbol for the bear community and his thoughts on Ricky Martin's<\/strong> coming out…enjoy!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n "Night Work" is coming out very very soon – how are you feeling about the impending release of the third Scissor Sisters album? <\/span><\/strong> I spoke to Ana and I've read a few interviews with Jake and it's been said that after the last album and tour you all had to sort of get away from each other and find yourselves again before starting on "Night Work" because life was pretty "full on" then. Did it ever cross your mind or were you worried that perhaps – that was it<\/span>?<\/strong><\/span> <\/font><\/span> Now I just listened to the album for the first time on the way to the office this morning and I loved it. Now I sort of noticed that it had an 80's lust, heady, NYC nightlife theme going on. And even "Sex And Violence" really reminded me of the American Psycho book and movie…was that intentional? <\/span><\/strong> Yeah there is a line in the song where Jake sings about being well-groomed, well-paid and persuasive that immediately made me think of that… <\/span><\/strong> <\/p>\n
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To read our EQ interview with Ana Matronic, <\/strong>click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
I'm feeling very good about it. I think that's only because I'm very proud of it. Anything else that happens that's positive or pushes it into the charts will only be great. We love it – we love playing it live and it's gonna be fun – we feel really good about it! <\/p>\n
You know, Jake and I didn't really take much of a break. We went away for about a month and then got back into the studio full time. I think the worry that "this may not last"<\/em> OR "this may not continue" <\/em>was from a good year and a half into working on the record and realizing we had a lot more work to do. Jake and I for some reason just can't stop. We got right back to it. Ana had some great perspective and Del had some great perspective from getting away from it for a little bit – I probably needed it to be honest. <\/p>\n
Really? Did you just think of that on your own? That song was totally inspired by the movie… <\/p>\n
Amazing! Yeah that was Jake's inspiration for that song! Yeah – well done! [laughs] I think it just made sense. Being a New York band, being a band that makes dance music, being a band that's inspired by pop music from the past, being fans of plenty of current pop music – not necessarily fans of what's on the radio. I think that era was one of the era's we looked to for inspiration – what was going on in New York in the underground in the 80s and even 90s and how we could continue a tradition if that doesn't sound too pretencious. How we could pick up where what we felt was the last great bastion of dance music. Grant it, we love electronic music all through the 90s and plenty of stuff through the now, but I think that era was a synergy of pop and dance that was exciting for us. It was the hedonism to that era that we have a bit of interest in – a bit of nostalgia event though we weren't there and didn't know exactly what it was like. We were trying to channel a little bit of that decadence. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n