I don’t know what this is! I don’t know how to work it. “The sense of humor really appeals to me. “The fans on there are so cute!” she said. Welch herself initially resisted its centrifugal force but once her label Republic Records pressured her to use it to promote “Dance Fever,” she got sucked in. I remember the last person I hugged in New York was a fan. I was walking past people who were talking about it. “I don’t know if it’s the echoes of the buildings but you could hear what everyone is saying. “I was walking around New York,” Welch said. She actually came to New York City to write the album before the pandemic began and there’s a song for that called “Back in Town.” But COVID-19 was already there and spreading. The album is chronological in a sense, she said. “So when something actually came, I freaked the out! I had to put that song down for a long time.” It’s like picking up on vibrations of what’s coming,” she said. “I’ve always been interested in the prescience of songwriting. The chorus features the line “something’s coming” numerous times. Months before COVID-19 shut the world down, she penned “Choreomania,” a propulsive tune that merges references to that odd mania with her own panic attacks. So she said the song is a commentary about how men can “carry on without these time pressures and limitations on their body.” I think I’ve never felt like my gender came into it.” And though she often wears flowing feminine outfits on stage, she said, “if you come see me live, there’s a masculinity to it. “As a live performer,” Welch said, “I have almost exclusively modeled myself after male performers.” Examples: Iggy Pop, Mick Jagger, Nick Cave. The use of “king” over “queen,” she said, was not something she thought about when the song came out of her brain, almost fully formed. “‘King’ tries to analyze the push and pull between these desires.” Behind an urgent, relentless drumbeat, she sings: “I am no mother, I am no bride, I am king.” The first song on “Dance Fever” is the starkly anthemic “King,” which explicitly tackles “this pull between practicality and passion,” she said. It feels like an out-of-body compulsion sometimes.” ![]() “No, you are not done and you have to make another record and get back out on stage. “This album just came rushing at me screaming to be made,” Welch said. So out came her latest record “Dance Fever.” “Medieval plague” is how Welch described it cheerfully. “It’s something I want,” she said.īut then she heard from a friend about choreomania, a phenomenon in which Europeans would dance to the point of exhaustion and injury in the 14th to 17th centuries. To her, that sounded like a sensible plan. ![]() Friends and family began bugging her about starting a family. That particular tour was emotionally taxing and left her wondering what to do next.
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