New Album Won't Feature Any 'Cheap, Nasty Hits', Say The Ting Tings
Monday, 30 January 2012
Written by Elliott Batte
English indie-pop duo The Ting Tings have revealed that there won’t be any ‘cheap, nasty hits’ on their forthcoming second album ‘The Sounds of Nowheresville’, saying that they’d rather ‘puke on their own feet’ than feature alongside stars like David Guetta on the radio.
After four years of waiting (and a chase around the world!), the band have finally finished recording the follow-up to their debut album ‘We Started Nothing’, and are set to release the record on February 27th. But, multi-instrumentalists Katie White and Jules de Martino have told the Guardian there’ll be no mainstream, trashy pop tracks on the record – and that they’d rather sell fewer records than write something in the style of David Guetta.
“Because we were living in Berlin, we'd got into dance music, and techno, and we did a few dance-type songs,” White revealed. “And they [the label guys] were literally going: 'Waa! Dance is huge on the radio at the minute! This is gonna fit right in!'”
But, instead of sending the demos of the dance tracks to the label, the pair instead decided to delete them – to the horror of their label managers.
“There was a moment, when we were like, right, after 10 seconds we're gonna delete these songs. Proper delete them,” she told The Guardian. Jules continued: “Two weeks went by, Everything quiet. They're letting us get on with our work, thinking [rubbing his hands together] it won't be long now, we'll soon get our hands on this record.
“Finally we get a call: ‘how's it going?’ We're like: ‘it's not ready.’ They're like: ‘just send over those demos you played’. And we're like: ‘we haven't got them anymore’. I remember, the silence on the phone...”
“We’d rather write songs that nobody's gonna hear than write dance tracks that would fit on the radio after David Guetta. I'd rather puke on my own feet than that. It would have been so easy to quickly bash out any old shit off the back of the first album. Get it on the radio, have a cheap nasty hit. And we didn't want to do that.”
You can catch The Ting Tings in Chesterfield’s Metro Smart Bar on April 3rd - click here for tickets. Check out the video to ‘Hang It Up’, which will feature on the new LP, below.
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