Tuesday, April 14, 2009
National Skyline Meat Loaf Goes Nashville, but He Won't Do That (i.e. Go Country)
Posted by D Patrick Rodgers on Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:21 PM
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So old Meatie has apparently decided to work on his next album in Music City. Don't freak out; he's not pulling a Jessica Simpson. He's just hip to our scene. Via Nashville Gab:
"I have to say this, and it has a connotation, but it's a new world now," Meat Loaf said. "I went into Nashville. Everybody goes, 'Oh, Nashville, country,' but no. All the songwriters have moved into Nashville. All the rock writers, everybody. I work with writers. I don't pretend to be a writer. I've written, but I hate everything [I wrote]. In fact, that's what I would tell them down in Nashville. They'd go, 'Oh, we want to write with you' and I'm saying, 'No you don't, because if you do, it's not going to get on the album because I'll hate it.' That held true. I'd sat down there and worked on three or four songs and they demo'd them, sent them back to me, and they're not going to be on the record. When we get into the studio and start doing tracks and things, I will change lyrics and write lyrics. I always do that. But that's a different thing. I just can't stand anything that I do."
Jeez. Don't be so hard on yourself, Loaf. You might not have written Bat out of Hell, but you definitely sang the hell out of it. So to speak.
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