Fun House started as a joke, but it feels indicative of making the record. I made it at home with my housemates, Sasami and Kyle, and there was a lot of positive energy around it. We recorded part of the record last November while the world was locked down, and I felt fortunate to have a home where I felt so supported and comfortable. At one point, an alternative title was Two Trees. I lived with my aunt starting at age eleven, and she planted trees for all her children, including me.
The symbolism felt through the roof, but Two Trees sounds like a folk record. MD I also just love the visuals of Fun House. The idea of architecture acting as a symbol for the psyche really appeals to me.
There was also some amazing synchronicity that happened with the record artwork, which was made by Curtis Santiago. MD Yeah, it was funny and fated in a way. Curtis asked me why I was drawn to this work. That figure is taken straight from Paris Is Burning. I should say that a lot of the songs are also about memories being activated through music. A funhouse is a consensual way of being disoriented, which relates to the deceptive nature of memory, so the connections between the title and artwork just felt right.
For Fun House , I wanted to go below the surface and not make another woe-is-me record. EH Some of the lyrics and arrangements on Fun House feel assertive. I think the container of a song can be a safe place to pose questions or take risks. In the end, a song is art and not a documentary. EH Do some of the questions in your songs shift from rhetorical to active in the context of playing live?
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It kind of feels surreal. The Associated Press: You're working with new people on this record. Why switch things up when the first album was such a success? Duffy: It would be easy for someone to rest on their laurels. But for me, I wanted to keep testing myself, to keep challenging myself, and actually it happened quite accidentally that I ended up working with other people.
Duffy: Well, it was an interesting mix of people: Myself from Wales, 26 years old; Albert Hammond from Gibraltar, sort of Spanish influence, who is 66; and then you had The Roots, who are a bunch of really cool young guys, notorious for their unbelievable hip-hop rhythm section. I think it was daring but I was very happy with what came back. AP: You've said that you didn't want to make a sad album.
Did you think your debut was sad? Duffy: I don't want to exploit my music just to release the baggage. I don't want to say the things that I regretted saying or the things that I never said in my music. I want to use it as expression and I want to make people feel good.
Whether it's crying, whether it's dancing, I'm very conscious of not plowing too much of the bad times into my music.
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