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| Meat Loaf On Going To Nashville, Bad Writing & His Distinctive Voice | |
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daveake 09:58 am UTC 04/15/09 |
| Spotted this on mlukfc: Meat Loaf fans have to wait years in between albums, since his epic songs take so long to produce. After 2006's "Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose," Meat Loaf is gearing up to record again. This time, however, he's taking a different approach. "I have to say this, and it has a connotation, but it's a new world now," Meat Loaf said. "I went into Nashville. Everybody goes, 'Oh, Nashville, country,' but no. All the songwriters have moved into Nashville. All the rock writers, everybody. I work with writers. I don't pretend to be a writer. I've written, but I hate everything [I wrote]. In fact, that's what I would tell them down in Nashville. They'd go, 'Oh, we want to write with you' and I'm saying, 'No you don't, because if you do, it's not going to get on the album because I'll hate it.' That held true. I'd sat down there and worked on three or four songs and they demo'd them, sent them back to me, and they're not going to be on the record. When we get into the studio and start doing tracks and things, I will change lyrics and write lyrics. I always do that. But that's a different thing. I just can't stand anything that I do." While Meat Loaf's most popular songs were written by Jim Steinman, Nashville offered a whole new crop of talent to scribe for the singer. "When I do deal with writers, I guide them. I tell them storylines and I tell them what I need, this is where I'm going. I changed management this year and I went with Ken Levitan so I met with them and they said, 'Well, we have to get the next record together.' Ken looked at me and said, 'Look, why don't we get Rob Cavallo?' So I said, 'If you can get Rob Cavallo, then hey, fantastic.' I met with Rob Cavallo and he just had a lot of projects stacked up in front of me, so I've been waiting for him." Don't worry. There might be changes behind the scenes, but you'll still recognize Meat Loaf. "You can't help but recognize Meat Loaf because when I sing, my voice is very distinctive. You can't get away from that. It's like Steven Tyler sounds like Steven Tyler; Billy Joel sounds like Billy; Bon Jovi definitely sounds like Jon. So you go off in that realm. That's what makes people interesting, when you hear them and go, 'Oh, that's Billy, that's Bruce, and that's Jon.' That's Meat." Still, couldn't he get Steinman to throw one song on the album for old time's sake? He said, "We'll see. Not right now. I'm going into the studio with Rob Cavallo, we start June 1st, who produced the big albums for Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day, Alanis Morissette and David Cook from American Idol. I think so. Anyway, this guy's really hot. I'm an old guy, and getting to be with a young, hot producer like that is exciting." | |
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