'Another Day', another album from Lene Marlin!
Raft: Your last album 'Playing My Game' came out in 2000. What have you been up to in between and were you worried that taking a break you might lose the momentum you built up?
Lene Marlin: Ahh, what have I been up to? I slept for a while (laughs). No, I just went through many changes in my life and so I needed to relax and do other stuff and not to go to all these hotels in different countries. I just needed to relax and not think about anything else. They always say when you take so much time from your first till the next album you might lose some fans or whatever but I think I just needed to use that time both personally and musically. Because if I released an album two years ago, that wouldn't have been good. So now I'm very proud of the album and I know that this is the right time.
R: What can fans expect from your second album?
LM: I'm older now. The last time I was 17 and now I'm nearly 23 so I think my songs have changed, naturally, it's just a natural development. I don't really know what to say, I guess people will have to give it a chance and have a listen.
R: Why did you choose the title 'Another Day'?
LM: Because one of the tracks from the album is called 'Another Day' and also it has more meaning to it but I don't want to say, people have to interpret their own meaning of it!
R: When you sat down and started writing 'Another Day', did you have a very clear direction you wanted the album to take? Or did you just go into it with an open mind?
LM: It was a bit strange because I wrote half the album in the studio because it was so inspiring. I sort of knew the songs I had before wouldn't be on the album, because I hoped I would be able to write some new songs. Then I started working with Mike Hedges and his team of people and everything went so well and it was so inspiring so I wrote so many new songs. It didn't really turn out the way I thought it would, it was so inspiring.
R: When you took your break were you still writing?
LM: Yeah, I did write the whole time. Some of the songs I knew were just my songs and I didn't want anyone else to hear them. But yeah I wrote a lot of songs.
R: What is your favourite song on the album?
LM: Oh, I should have prepared for this question! (laughs) My favourite song is a bit difficult to say because I'm so attached to all of them because I wrote them and I know what all the songs are about. I can't really say that I have on favourite; sometimes I listen to 'Sorry' or 'My Love'... it all depends. It changes.
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