Interviews/Droide

## 2011

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### Transcript

Sure. First of all, I'm Natalia Kills and my album is called Perfectionist, and I actually started writing it years and years ago before I even got a record deal. A lot of the songs, in fact, all of the songs, are about all of my terrible mistakes, glorious and wild adventures, and heartbreak and revenge of stupid boys.

I worked with really great producers, geniuses, in fact. On my album, I worked with everybody from Jeff Bhasker, who works with Jay-Z and Kanye West and Beyoncé and Alicia Keys, Ron Feemster, who works with Michael Jackson, Fernando Garibay, who works with Britney Spears and Lady Gaga, and Martin Kierszenbaum (Cherry Cherry Boom Boom), who has worked with everybody. It was a lot of fun to collaborate with such amazing beat-makers and musicians and producers to make this.

Love is a Suicide, produced by Fernando Garibay, is actually one of my favorite songs on the whole album. When I was about 17, I was frantic and practically suicidal, pretty much, and I was always kind of debating in my horrible relationship whether to jump into my lover's arms or jump off a bridge and kill myself. So I wrote *Love is a Suicide* about my first relationship, my first ever boyfriend, and me and Fernando, I think we had a really good time making the music as dramatic as my memories and the actual lyrics and everything I'm describing. It's one of my favorites. Another song on my album that has a very distinctive meaning to me is my song Mirrors. It was the first day that I met Akon, and I had a total misconception of what he'd be like. I thought Akon would be there, kinda sat in the studio with a bunch of bitches, like nipple tassels and a thong and some spray tan and maybe piles of money and some cigars, very gangster. But, I met him in the studio and he was just really nice, very intelligent, and so good at music and being creative. So, we made the song *Mirrors* on the very first day we met.

Zombie is another song that's actually about my first boyfriend, almost all of my album is about my first ever serious relationship. Zombie, I really wanted to find a way to describe how horrible this boy had been to me, but I was addicted to him. When I started to describe him, the only thing I could think of was [that] he was like a zombie. He was so cold towards me. He was such a hard person. I would try and impress him and I'd have no reaction from him and I think that all of those qualities are qualities that we associate with zombies. Rather than singing a song [that was] really mushy and kind of sad like, [sings sadly] "Oh, you're like a zombie, you're so mean!" I decided to just be like, "You ARE a zombie. And I'm in love... with a zombie." That was my excellent singing, by the way.

I think it's important to be really honest in everything you do. When you go and see a concert or a performance and it doesn't really look natural, if it looks too staged or even if it looks like the performer is not interested in being there and doesn't mean the lyrics that they're singing, if they don't mean it when they talk about certain things, then I think it's a big disappointment. It's such an honor, it's such a privilege to have such dedicated and loyal fans that I would never want to be that disappointment, so that's why I write all of my own songs about myself, about my experience and my opinion, 'cause if it's always honest, they'll always feel my truth and my energy the way I feel theirs.

I would absolutely love to do a tour of Latin America or South America. I would love that so much just because I would like to connect with my Spanish-speaking audience. There's a passion there with Latin culture that is absolutely different to any country or culture in the world, so I feel like that is something that I have to do. I would absolutely love to do a tour here. Could I start here in Mexico?

Here is my album *Perfectionist* if you like breaking hearts or do have a broken heart... If you like shoe shopping, even if you can't afford to buy the shoes, or if you generally just like to sing about revenge and all that other girly shit, this album... Take a listen. *Perfectionist* by Natalia Kills, myself. Woo!