Q: Have you ever heard Madonna’s ‘Like It Or Not’ from ‘Confessions on A Dancefloor’? It was her attempt at making a Goldfrapp record. ‘Black Cherry’ to be specific.
Alison Goldfrapp : ‘Never heard it, that song. I couldn’t care less what she or whoever does. Madonna is always copying other people’s work. yuck.’
Q: Well you guys are quite good at it yourself : ‘Ooh La La’ was a T-Rex rip-off. ‘Cologne Cerrone Houdini’ could have been any Gainsbourg song on ‘Historie de Melody Nelson’. And those are just two examples.
Alison Goldfrapp : ‘We have a perfectly legitimate post-modern explanation for that. Those songs are an homage! We steal like magpies but we pay tribute to our heroes at any chance we get, in interviews etc.. . Everyone should know by now that Marc Bolan was my idol growing up. But we’ll never be caught following the latest trend or collaborating with the hottest DJs and producers just to get their names on our record sleeves. That’s not our style.
From http://allaboutmadonna.com/2010/03/alison-goldfrapp-on-madonna-again.php - translated from the Belgian magazine HUMO
Look, I love Goldfrapp, but Alison’s taking the bait resulted in hilarity on many levels.
And though Head First is not necessarily on the wrong side of homage vs. ripoff, it IS insubstantial and fluffy as hell, unlike Confessions, which reinterpreted electro-disco with added balls.
But can everyone stop with the flood of mainstream glam-stomp Strict Machine ripoffs?
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