Smiling from behind sunglasses the size of small tennis racquets, Alison Goldfrapp, is talking about some of her famous friends. “Christina Aguilera was terribly sweet,” the high priestess of pervy synth pop announces. “She wasn’t guarded at all. Very relaxed. We have met a few lady pop stars and, you know, they can be quite guarded in the way they present themselves.”

Is this a veiled reference to Madonna, who notoriously borrowed — many would say pilfered — Goldfrapp’s pop dominatrix sound and Wickerman chic a few years back? “We met Madonna at the MTV awards. She was very charming,” Alison demurs. “She and Guy Ritchie had previously asked us do do a score for her movie. I don’t think we’re fans of her music, but have a lot of admiration for what she has achieved.”

Surely, though, Goldfrapp was a bit piqued to see Madonna — christened ‘Oldfrapp’ by the press — cribbing her look and musical stylings? “I have to say, there were a couple of occasions where I thought ‘didn’t I just wear that outfit last week or something?’ A couple of things like that. But , you know, I don’t know what Madonna listens to, I don’t know what she does.”

At least they still have a fan in Christina Aguilera. Last year, she contacted Goldfrapp and Gregory out of the blue, inviting them to hang with her in Los Angeles, and toss a few ideas around. “She flew us out, she looked after us,” says Gregory. “She was very sweet actually. She was with a very new baby. It was hard for her to do any work at all — it was quite against her instincts at the time. But she did, you know.”

One imagines Aguilera enjoying rather a bling lifestyle. “It was very un-corporate really,” says Gregory. “We went in thinking, ‘oh where are all the people?’ It was her and an engineer. All in her little home studio. To be fair, she did have a lot of staff. She had a telephone where she had ’staff one, staff two, staff three’. She herself was relaxed and open.”

So when can we expect to hear the fruits of their collaboration? Goldfrapp and Gregory glance at one another sheepishly. “We wrote her a song and that was the whole shaboodle really,” says Goldfrapp. “We haven’t heard it and don’t know what’s happening to it. That’s about as far as we can comment. I think she’s figuring out what she’s doing. Whether it will ever see the light of day, we don’t know.”

As Christina Aguilera watched and rocked from balcony view, Pink digested the performance front and center stage, while others like Laurie Ann Gibson, Beach Girl5 and Lil Mama also enjoyed at close view, noting the production was “smooth and exciting”. Pink tweeted ” Wen2 see Siren Assassins 2nite. Big dance extravaganza.Those girls+boys MURDERED it. The whole dam thing. Made me wanna take my clothes off n dance.”

Director and choreographer, Rhapsody James, took the multimedia dance show to another level, implanting forms of martial arts, acts of woman power, multiple dance style collaborations, and fierceness that induced constant cheering across the building throughout the entire show. Upon completion, the production brought everyone to their feet and tears to the director’s face. There was no flaw in performance as every scene and dance move was intricately delivered. As a definite crowd pleasing production, many hope for the show’s return in Los Angeles.

This was the show’s debut performance on the West Coast, originally coming from it’s base in New York.

Source: NewsWire

July and Beyond
July Jamey Johnson — The Guitar Song
Spring Christina Aguilera — Bionic
Spring Kelis — Flesh Tone
Summer Arcade Fire — Title TBD
Summer Katy Perry — Title TBD
Summer KT Tunstall — Title TBD
Summer Ra Ra Riot — Title TBD
Summer Robyn — Title TBD
Summer T-Pain — Title TBD
Summer The Walkmen — Title TBD

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My character – her name is allie Marilyn rose – she comes from Iowa – she works in a bar as a waitress – she has a dream – wants to sing – her grandma passes – she leaves & goes to los Angeles to see what happens – she’s a free spirit – an open mind – a little tough – a little venerable like myself – I tapped into that – then she steps into this whole world of this burlesque environment & falling in love with it & she’s never seen anything before like this in her life & she’s just drawn in2 it & wants so desperately to prove herself to Tess whose Cher’s character & uno they have this sort of on going banter throughout the film – her trying to get Cher to listen to her & her ideas & trying to get her to see her for a performer that she really is & she kind of shuns her away but at the very end they kind of come together & it’s a really incredible emotional moment.

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Cher’s been incredible too – since day one – she has just embraced me with open arms – its meant the world to me – her emails of encouragement & support are like unwrapping little pieces of candy & getting the best sensation from it – I mean she’s been very much like a mentor to me – but its strange – the two of us get together in a room & for some strange reason I feel like we are old girlfriends & we’ll talk & talk & talk & she just has stories for days & I just find her the most fascinating person I may have ever met.

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• So the Christina Aguilera songs you wrote—for the record, how many will there be?
  There are four of them. I think they’re called “I Am”—I called it “Lullaby” but she’s given it another name. But I think it’s called, um—[she starts singing]—oh, “All I Need”! And it’s “All I Need,” “You Lost Me,” “I Am” and something like “Stronger.” But I don’t think she called it “Stronger” in the end. That’s just what we called it. We just call it something while it’s in the working process and then she gives it it’s name. There are some where it totally lends itself to its name and there are others where it’s just like, “No, we had a song called ‘Fighter’ so we don’t want a song called ‘Stronger.’” But they’re all on there. She’s pretty awesome. It was pretty crazy when she sang at me for the first time.

• Were there any songs you two recorded that didn’t make it on the album?
  No, just those four songs. Then we did another one for her movie with Cher. So it’s been a really good collaboration, actually. We really got along great. We didn’t bin anything, which was good.

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