Post by the Scribe on Aug 2, 2017 15:49:30 GMT -5
Lots of insight into the psyche of one of the more normal down to Earth (Linda type) singers. Outside of Linda Ronstadt I know very little (in depth) about the entertainment world but this video came on (by itself) and drew me in. It is in a series of short videos.
Backspin: Sheryl Crow Talks Cancer Battle, Music Business Battles, and ‘Being Herself’ at Age 55
Lyndsey Parker
Yahoo MusicAugust 01, 2017
It has been almost a decade since Sheryl Crow released Detours, which she recorded shortly after she very publicly split with cyclist Lance Armstrong and completed breast cancer treatment. But the album — and particularly one track, “Make It Go Away (Radiation Song),” with its crushing lyrics like “I crawl into my circumstance/Lay on the table/Begging for another chance/I was a good girl/I can’t understand” — still resonates with her fellow cancer survivors.
“That song is really about having cancer: ‘I’m a nice person. I’m a healthy person. How did this happen?’ The whole album is just about the fact that as much as we think we control all the events in our lives, we really have no control over much at all,” says Crow, as she sits with Yahoo Music for her career-spanning Backspin interview. “I had people coming up to me in Starbucks or in the women’s bathroom at the airport saying, ‘I’m a cancer survivor’ or ‘I had breast cancer,’ and talking to me about their experience. It is an odd thing that the community, of particularly breast cancer survivors, they find each other, and there is a common language there about nourishing and nourishment and self-nurturing — and the lack thereof when it comes to women. … That song became sort of a mantra. I still have a lot of women who come up and talk to me about it. And that is a gift to me.”
Unfortunately, Crow’s label wasn’t quite as enthusiastic about Detours. “I handed it in to Interscope and they were like, ‘It’s a lovely record, but nobody wants to hear this kind of stuff,’” Crow recalls ruefully. True, Detours wasn’t her most successful release — it barely went gold and “didn’t jump off the shelves at Tower Records”; compare that with her first two albums, which sold a combined 13 million copies. “But I still contend that there’s stuff on that record that has its place. … It meant something to me,” she says.
This wasn’t the first time that Crow didn’t see eye-to-eye with a record label. When she first signed to A&M in 1992 after garnering attention as a background singer on Michael Jackson’s Bad tour, there was “a lot of interest in my making a pop record, like Paula Abdul or Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam, what was happening then — like Madonna. And I didn’t want to do that. I wanted to do the stuff I’m doing now.” Crow was so unhappy with the resulting recording by Phil Collins/Human League/Sting producer Hugh Padgham (the bootleg of which now sells for hundreds of dollars on eBay), she begged A&M not to put it out. “Then I sat around for a really long time, went back to waiting tables, and started hearing around town that I was about to be dropped,” she reveals.
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www.yahoo.com/music/backspin-sheryl-crow-talks-cancer-battle-music-business-battles-age-55-211331753.html
thought I would throw this in as well:
Backspin: Sheryl Crow Talks Cancer Battle, Music Business Battles, and ‘Being Herself’ at Age 55
Lyndsey Parker
Yahoo MusicAugust 01, 2017
It has been almost a decade since Sheryl Crow released Detours, which she recorded shortly after she very publicly split with cyclist Lance Armstrong and completed breast cancer treatment. But the album — and particularly one track, “Make It Go Away (Radiation Song),” with its crushing lyrics like “I crawl into my circumstance/Lay on the table/Begging for another chance/I was a good girl/I can’t understand” — still resonates with her fellow cancer survivors.
“That song is really about having cancer: ‘I’m a nice person. I’m a healthy person. How did this happen?’ The whole album is just about the fact that as much as we think we control all the events in our lives, we really have no control over much at all,” says Crow, as she sits with Yahoo Music for her career-spanning Backspin interview. “I had people coming up to me in Starbucks or in the women’s bathroom at the airport saying, ‘I’m a cancer survivor’ or ‘I had breast cancer,’ and talking to me about their experience. It is an odd thing that the community, of particularly breast cancer survivors, they find each other, and there is a common language there about nourishing and nourishment and self-nurturing — and the lack thereof when it comes to women. … That song became sort of a mantra. I still have a lot of women who come up and talk to me about it. And that is a gift to me.”
Unfortunately, Crow’s label wasn’t quite as enthusiastic about Detours. “I handed it in to Interscope and they were like, ‘It’s a lovely record, but nobody wants to hear this kind of stuff,’” Crow recalls ruefully. True, Detours wasn’t her most successful release — it barely went gold and “didn’t jump off the shelves at Tower Records”; compare that with her first two albums, which sold a combined 13 million copies. “But I still contend that there’s stuff on that record that has its place. … It meant something to me,” she says.
This wasn’t the first time that Crow didn’t see eye-to-eye with a record label. When she first signed to A&M in 1992 after garnering attention as a background singer on Michael Jackson’s Bad tour, there was “a lot of interest in my making a pop record, like Paula Abdul or Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam, what was happening then — like Madonna. And I didn’t want to do that. I wanted to do the stuff I’m doing now.” Crow was so unhappy with the resulting recording by Phil Collins/Human League/Sting producer Hugh Padgham (the bootleg of which now sells for hundreds of dollars on eBay), she begged A&M not to put it out. “Then I sat around for a really long time, went back to waiting tables, and started hearing around town that I was about to be dropped,” she reveals.
Read More
www.yahoo.com/music/backspin-sheryl-crow-talks-cancer-battle-music-business-battles-age-55-211331753.html
thought I would throw this in as well:
