139: k.d. lang | Part 2
Homo Sapiens
Christopher Sweeney
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The ⚡️icon ⚡️that is k.d. lang was on the first ever list of dream guests for this podcast and remarkably this week our dream came true. k.d. zooms in from Calgary to put the world to rights in a chat that covers the wild times of finding superstardom with Constant Craving, why k.d. lang shows were the original Tinder, a fascinating discussion about Butch, and a beautiful behind the scenes story about THAT Vanity Fair cover with Cindy Crawford. In a departure from our normal schedule, over the summer we have incredible interviews every week, with Homo Sapiens Extra back in your ears at the end of Summer. There are lots of treats in store. In the meantime you can get k.d.’s wonderful new album, 'makeover', it’s totally brilliant.
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns, now picture you, zooming past |
| 0:12.4 | it all, light and breezy, ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic, book your train |
| 0:21.6 | journey via AvantiWestcoast.co.uk, AvantiWestcoast, feel good travel. |
| 0:30.0 | Ah, this is part two of our homo sapiens chat with Katie Lang. If you haven't heard part one, |
| 0:39.1 | please do go back to the feed, play that and if you have heard part one, here it is, here's part two. |
| 0:47.9 | You said that your album after Angelou was deliberately, not deliberately, those weren't your words, |
| 0:54.1 | but you liked that it didn't sell as well. Yeah, it was like a great leveler, but if then |
| 0:59.3 | years later I realized that the way the system works. If you sell a million records or two |
| 1:06.6 | million records, then in the system of record companies and marketing, you sell two million |
| 1:12.9 | records, but then you put a terrible record out, you sell 38 copies, then marketing and everything |
| 1:18.9 | sees that you sell 38 copies. So you're only as good as your last sales. It's sabotage, I managed |
| 1:27.0 | to sabotage things pretty well without record. Do you regret that? I mean, I don't like regrets, |
| 1:32.5 | but what do you think that was what had to happen at the time? I regret not having all the information |
| 1:38.0 | or having the comprehension that I needed to have, but I certainly don't regret the artistic |
| 1:44.9 | decision to work with Gus Van Zendt and Uma Thurman and Rain Phoenix and making, or you're talking |
| 1:52.1 | all you can eat, because actually I followed it up with even cowgirls get the blues, right? |
| 1:56.9 | Is that the record? Oh, yeah, sorry. I was talking about you can eat, sorry, my project. |
| 2:00.6 | Yeah, there was a couple there, couple stinkers there. They really weren't stinkers. |
| 2:07.5 | No, I don't think so. I don't think so, but in terms of public success, they were |
| 2:14.0 | big old stinkers. You don't need to hear this from me, but the birthplace of stinkers and massive |
| 2:19.9 | hits is risking being different. They actually come from the same place and no one's going to |
| 2:24.8 | encourage you to do that ever because they want what Ed Sheeran just released or whatever the |
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