LeAnn Rimes‘ new album, ‘Lady & Gentlemen’ released on September 27th. LeAnn’s going back to her country roots on the new album, with a batch of country cover songs.
Before the album was released, LeAnn called it an “art record”, which to me, doesn’t sound like a winner. But she claims to be happier with this album than any other album she’s released in the past.
For the concept album, Rimes recorded a batch of songs that had previously been cut by men, reinterpreting them from a woman’s perspective. Waylon Jennings‘ 1968 hit “Only Daddy That’ll Walk the Line,” for instance, becomes “Only Mama That’ll Walk the Line.” Many of the songs on the album have never before been recorded by a woman.
“A lot of people have said this is such a ballsy move, and I never thought about it that way,” she says. “I thought I was just thanking these men for their influence [while also] taking these songs and making them mine.”
LeAnn goes on to talk more about her marriage to Eddie Cibrian, her family, and her addiction to Twitter. The girl does have a Twitter addiction. Check out some of her latest bizarre Twit Pics!
“Success is great. Awards are great. All of that’s wonderful,” she says. “But as a happily married woman with stepchildren, my family comes first now and career is second, to be honest. [But] juggling it all is a chore.
“We want to make sure the kids know they’re loved and taken care of and they are a priority, but it’s also incredibly hard,” she says of managing parental responsibilities with her touring schedule and Cibrian’s production schedule for “The Playboy Club,” which shoots in Chicago.
“We’re new at this,” she says. “We got married in April, so we’re learning, but raising the kids is the most important thing, and making sure they have a stable life is really important to us even though we have very unstable lives. … We have our moments of craziness, but we also have moments of peace.”
Rimes fuels some of the tabloid interest herself by living her life out loud on Twitter, which she jokingly admits to being addicted to. In the eight hours prior to an interview with MSN Music, she’d already logged more than 50 tweets, joining a total of more than 31,000 tweets she posted since first joining the social network. She currently has over 180,000 followers.
“It is a great way for me to honestly open up and talk to my fans,” she says, explaining her obsession with Twitter. “What do I have to hide these days? I’m completely transparent.”
For that same reason, Rimes says she doesn’t shy away from media scrutiny anymore.
“We take it day by day and we don’t hide. We can’t,” she says of her life with Cibrian. “If people want to write about my weight or what I ate or didn’t eat today, or where I went to the gym, that’s their deal. I can’t control it. What I can control is the music that I make, and this
is a great reminder of what I do best.”
Source, Photos: Fame
Posted Monday, October 3rd, 2011 at 8:08am
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