k.d. lang Gets ‘Loud’ About Tony Bennett, Strip Clubs and Public Backlash
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When k.d. lang recorded ‘Sing It Loud,’ her first studio album since 2008′s ‘Watershed,’ the process went so smoothly that “it’s like we were hit over the head by some magic wand,” the singer tells Spinner.
“We” is her new band, the Siss Boom Bang, her first group since she recorded with the Reclines more than 20 years ago. Lang and the quintet — partially named because they were in the studio over the Fourth of July in Nashville — banged out eight songs in three days.
“You’re getting the creative spirit and energy and the love in the air between myself and the Siss Boom Bang,” lang says about the recently released album that beautifully blends her twangy and torchy sides. “It’s very spontaneous and real.”
The multiple Grammy winner recently spoke to Spinner about the record, her new accidental band, her strip-club-set video for the first single ‘I Confess’ and working with idol Tony Bennett.
The video for first single, ‘I Confess,’ takes place in a strip club. That’s not a setting one would normally associate with you.
[Laughs] Yeah, well, it was the director’s idea. I kind of like that it’s just a complete salad of opportunities there. Everything is going on.
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