Rockor rather, readon.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lets talk about your new album,Joy.
Its been a while since you released anything.
How are you feeling about getting back out there?
FEFE DOBSON:So excited.
Ive been waiting for this release for forever.
Im so stoked, I cant explain it to you.
Im smiling right now.
When somebody says, Give me the pitch for whatJoyis, how do you answer that?
Its just like all of those experiences that I had during that periodthat growing up period.
You grow and change a lot during that period.
You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.
Musically, its still rock and roll, but theres elements of pop because I love pop music.
I love rock music, I love country musicI love all music, lets be honest!
But it reflects that and my interests.
Its a really raw record.
Raw in the sense that you feel like you put yourself out there?
What does that mean?
And its raw because, musically and sonically, theres two sides of the album.
Why did it take three years to do?
From the outside it seems like a long time to do an album.
I guess I needed time to grow up.
Am I popular enough?
Am I thin enough?
Ive read stuff before that said that you werent always necessarily happy with your experiences making albums before.
Are you happy withJoy?
Imreallyhappy with this record.
Im extremely happy with this record.
Is there anything from the scrapped album,Sunday Love, that made it ontoJoy?
I really wanted to start fresh.
And this album is a different story.
But some ofSunday Lovehas trickled out through other artists who recorded songs from it, right?
It was so cool to have people cover them.
Like Selena Gomez has covered tracks of mine, it was just amazing.
Pick a song from Joymaybe one of your favoritesthat you really love and tell me the story behind it.
I love it too much!
I dont want to give it up!
So I got an amazing producer to produce ithes like a legendary producer, hes from Canada.
His name is Bob Ezrin, he producedThe Wallfrom Pink Floyd, and he producedDestroyerfor KISS.
Peter Gabriel, hes worked with everybody.
But I mean Pink FloydsThe Wall?
It doesnt get better than that in the rock world.
Is this the song that has Orianthi on it?
Yes, Orianthi plays guitar on it.
You worked with really cool people on this albumfrom Kara DioGuardi to JR Rotem.
What was it like to work with such bold-faced names?
He kind of pulled me out of my shell in some ways.
He was cool about recordingeverything, because then you find gems.
I dont really know that until its done and I listen to it.
If I cant somehow make it organic, then I know its not for me.
Whether it just doesnt sound like me…its just something I know when I listen to it.
Have you ever thought about putting covers on your albums?
Any chance youll ever record a cover or two?
I dont mind covers at all; covers are cool.
As long as theres a way to make the cover my own so that Im not copying someone.
The production would have to reflect me as an artist.
Yeah, because the reason youre covering them is because theyre so amazing.
Whats your take on it?
How do you envision it?
Its already amazing, so youre going to have to make it different so that its more you.
Who do you dream about collaborating with?
I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.
Them together, that would be amazing.
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