McLachlan completes nine songs for new album
By PAUL CANTIN
Senior Reporter, JAM! Showbiz
Sarah McLachlan has completed nine songs for her long-awaited
new album, but there's a chance the disc may not see release
until 2003.
新專輯目前已有九首歌完成
但專輯的正式發行最遲可能要等到2003年
A combination of the singer's own impending motherhood (her
first child is due in April) and the illness of her mother has
forced McLachlan to take what could become a six-month break
from working on the as-yet-untitled new record, her manager
(and Nettwerk Records boss) Terry McBride told JAM! Music.
"I think there is about a 75% chance (the new album will be
released in 2002). Sarah is pregnant now and due in April. Her
mom is really, really sick, which for the last two months, has
stopped any studio stuff," McBride said via telephone from
Vancouver during an interview about the upcoming Barenaked Ladies
"Life And Times" TV special. (McBride is the band's manager.)
"She's got most of the album done. I just don't know whether
she is basically going to finish it."
McLachlan has worked in Los Angeles and in Morin Heights, PQ,
on the follow-up to her last studio album, 1997's "Surfacing."
But most of the recording has been done at her home studio,
McBride said.
"It is sort of taking its price out of her right now," he said
of McLachlan's situation.
"The album was going along great. She had nine songs pretty well
done, and then everything stopped ... With mom not well, she has
spent most of her time here (in Vancouver), but she has basically
stopped for the last two months ... it will end up taking six months
out of the process."
When the new album is completed, it will bring to an end a lengthy
hiatus from the limelight for McLachlan. Her cover of the Beatles'
"Blackbird," which features on the soundtrack to the upcoming film
"I Am Sam" (out next month), will be the first new studio recording
from McLachlan in several years.
翻唱 Beatles 的 'Blackbird' 將是新專輯第一支發表新曲
會先收錄在原聲帶 'I Am Sam'
"Really, the girl has not recorded anything new in four years,"
he said.
When asked to characterize the parts of the new album he has heard,
McBride said: "Let's just say that I am extremely happy."
Whatever the eventual release date for the new album, it will be
preceded by a single -- "a dynamite song," according to McBride --
that will arrive well ahead of the full record.
"The single will be a good 16 weeks -- at least 12 weeks -- ahead of
the album. Whereas most people do it with a six-week window, I am going
to make it a much longer window," he said.
Although he declined to name the song, he called it "probably the
biggest song of this girl's career."
"It's a matter of bringing her back inside the public, but doing it
in a very classy way. Not the hype. The hype will build naturally. I
want to stretch it out, so that when the album hits, people want to get
it right then. The song will be so undeniable."
McLachlan is poised to take the music world by surprise with the new
album, he added. "Surfacing" was recently certified as an eight-times-
platinum album in the U.S. In Canada, he pegged the record at 16-times
platinum (1.6 million copies).
"She sells more records than Madonna ... She's just shy of Celine and
Shania, but with not the same hype level. When this new album hits, it
is going to shock people. Stateside, it will probably scan a half-million
copies the first week, and people will say: 'What the hell?'
"They just don't know (how big McLachlan has become). She has had the
biggest live album in 10 years, 'Mirrorball' sold three-and-a-half million
copies ... Start putting things in perspective. The industry doesn't know,
which is going to be really, really interesting."
One thing that won't be part of McLachlan's future is a revived version
of her multi-act, female-centric Lilith Fair tour, McBride added.
Sarah 未來也不會再舉行 Lilith Fair 之類的演唱會
或許有許多人認為 Lilith 有助於 Sarah 職業生涯的發展
但事實上， Lilith 也是她生命中的一個極大絆腳石
"Lilith, as much as people think it helped Sarah's career, it put
blinders on her. She was stuck doing a 45 minute, 60 minute greatest-
hits set. She's stuck promoting Lilith and not promoting a Sarah album.
You can't go off and do a whole pile of TV (appearances) because you are
off doing Lilith," he said.
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永遠都記得你離去的那天清晨 你無聲無息地從我的枕邊離去
你選擇回到那擁有你靈魂的人的身邊 而我 只能再回到那段令我恐懼的歲月
我連忙跑到海邊 哭喊著「請別離開我」
悲傷的淚水不斷的從我的眼中流出 無奈的我只願大海能帶走我心中的傷痛
但只見一陣陣的潮水打在岸邊 彷彿悲傷又再一陣陣的湧上心頭
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