I mean, I woke up the morning after I said yes and thought, what have I done? That was a mistake. There’s a long list of things, everything from being on “Dancing with the Stars”… ![]() You certainly have not been reclusive since your last solo pop album in 1997. And I think it’s actually stronger than it was. I know that as you get older, you sort of lose control of your voice, and older singers sometimes can’t sing anymore. I do vocal lessons and breath work every single day anyway, but I do heavier breath work. So usually for a month before I go and do a run of dates, I do it every day. That really inspired me to even do more of it and to really take it seriously. And then when I started getting into breath work - and I do Wim Hof- type stuff too, which is like the ice bath with the heavy breathing - I noticed that my voice changed completely, as far as what I was able to do: better voice control, more lung capacity. But I also do a daily yoga practice, and I do a lot of pranayama. At the same time, you’ve said that in the past 15 years, you’d really spent a lot of time on your voice, which doesn’t sound like someone who just wants to wind it down and get out. You’ve said maybe you were ready to be semi-retired. I did a few little projects here and there, but nothing like this since 1997. You know, I haven’t been in the studio and I haven’t done English-speaking pop for a long time. But I loved the song (“Big Big Love”), so I thought, OK, let’s do it. I know what I like I have no confusion about that and never have. So I went down to the studio and she played me a couple tracks. And I thought, do I really wanna make this commitment? But nobody says no to Diane. ![]() I have hits for you.” And I thought, weeeell… I was planning on slowing down and retiring and living the quiet life. She seems to have an instinct of what material would be good for which artist, why she is who she is.įast forward to about a year and a half ago, when my son ran into Diane at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, and she said, “What is your mom doing? Let’s call her.” So they did, and she said, “Get down to the studio. I think she’s hilarious she is a kind person she’s an eccentric. ![]() With Diane, I liked her from the very beginning, when I first worked with her on the “Heaven on Earth” album. So it’s always been part of my vocabulary. I’ve always used that word, because I love the way that it conjures up mysticism, magic, things that can’t be explained, coincidences. In conversation with Variety over Zoom, Carlisle talked about pleasing her fan base with the new EP (her fanatical European devotees finally having something to obsess over besides the endless repackagings of her ’80s and ’90s material), where her wanderlust comes from, and the odds of a collab with near-namesake Brandi Carlile.ĭid the title “Kismet” come up out of conversations between you and Diane Warren, about how the two of you got together for this? The story goes that your son, Duke, ran into her at a coffee shop and that’s how you reconnected after a period of decades. She’s not making any promises one way or another about whether this EP presages a full solo album… though Carlisle will offer assurances that the Go-Go’s are “done,” having gone out on top, in her estimation, with a long-, long-awaited Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. Long an American expat and constant traveler, the singer seems quite content to spend most of her time with her husband of 37 years, Morgan Mason, at home in Mexico City, with only occasional forays onto the road. That changed with the May release of “Kismet,” a five-song EP that finally found Carlisle dipping a toe back into the recording studio with her first new collection of English-language pop music since 1996, including a single titled “Big Big Love,” which really did have the beat (as opposed to her last album, a mantra record).īut if there’s any pop star of her generation that hasn’t cravenly coveted the spotlight, and isn’t likely to start now, it’s Carlisle, who seems like she’d be perfectly content even if Diane Warren hadn’t talked her into finally reentering the studio for a new batch of songs. Of all the things Belinda Carlisle has been mad about in recent years, her career as a pop solo artist has not been high up there, from all appearances.
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