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<center><h3> Fewer "mean songs" for Elvis Costello </h3></center> | <center><h3> Fewer "mean songs" for Elvis Costello </h3></center> | ||
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“There are not so many mean songs on it. Some of my most successful songs have been quite malevolent. Those things are in me, like in everybody else. When I start thinking about angry things I become meaner. I’ve got some pretty mean songs lying festering away in my songbag, you know.” | “There are not so many mean songs on it. Some of my most successful songs have been quite malevolent. Those things are in me, like in everybody else. When I start thinking about angry things I become meaner. I’ve got some pretty mean songs lying festering away in my songbag, you know.” | ||
''[[Blood And Chocolate|Blood and Chocolate]]'', Costello’s 13th LP in the United States, uses his long-time band, [[the Attractions]]. | |||
“I very much want the new record to be successful because I’ve had few commercial successes,” he said. “Over the last couple of years I haven’t been doing songs of great emotional substance. People’s feelings have been strong for more vivid material that came earlier in my career. I haven’t gone to the hearts of people. The ones they get excited about are the old songs, still.” | “I very much want the new record to be successful because I’ve had few commercial successes,” he said. “Over the last couple of years I haven’t been doing songs of great emotional substance. People’s feelings have been strong for more vivid material that came earlier in my career. I haven’t gone to the hearts of people. The ones they get excited about are the old songs, still.” | ||
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An aura of mystery and unavailability has surrounded Costello through much of his career. “It was for avoiding having to do interviews,” he said in an interview. “They had written the article before they came to you. There was very little point in saying anything. It was easier to foster being difficult or mysterious or violent or all three, so people stayed away from you. I was working at a very furious pace. Let them write the stupid nonsense they were going to write anyway. All I wanted to do was get on with the work.” | An aura of mystery and unavailability has surrounded Costello through much of his career. “It was for avoiding having to do interviews,” he said in an interview. “They had written the article before they came to you. There was very little point in saying anything. It was easier to foster being difficult or mysterious or violent or all three, so people stayed away from you. I was working at a very furious pace. Let them write the stupid nonsense they were going to write anyway. All I wanted to do was get on with the work.” | ||
Costello lives in London. He put his real name, Declan McManus, on | Costello lives in London. He put his real name, Declan McManus, on ''King of America''. | ||
“I’m 32. I was 22 when I started. It’s a way of saying that a period of time has elapsed and that’s my name. You’re not going to take my name changing too seriously. There’s no psychoanalytical reasoning behind it.” | “I’m 32. I was 22 when I started. It’s a way of saying that a period of time has elapsed and that’s my name. You’re not going to take my name changing too seriously. There’s no psychoanalytical reasoning behind it.” | ||
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