![]() And to be able to do songs with Tegan and Sara-I don’t even think Chad, who produced the record with me, knew what a big fan I was of theirs. But with more experience I realize that throughout those songs it’s always your own voice. I think as a songwriter, especially when you’re starting out, it was a source of pride that I write my own music. ![]() It was great to know that I could continue to grow as an artist, which for me meant recording somebody else’s songs, which I never would have done in the past. On this record you also have some collaboration. Especially in the process of mixing the record, we were in a big pancake phase. This record is really a poppy-punky-rock record and I think in that there’s a lot of energy and immediacy and a different kind of energy than you find in a singer-songwriter album and an acoustic album. Through my experiences with the kids’ music, where we try to make it sound like there are really people singing together in a room, because that’s how you want to present music to kids often-like something that’s happening in their real life, not something that’s happening outside of them-bringing that experience to this project worked perfectly with the genre of music that we’re doing. That’s been really a great freedom but it’s also informed my grown-up writing and honed my skills in story-telling. Also, I usually collaborate on my kids’ music and we’ve been able to tell stories and write songs about things we never usually write about. There’s a lot of freedom in writing kids’ music. What was it like to come back to pop-rock music after spending time in the world of kid’s music? ( MORE: Paint a Vulgar Picture: A Fan’s Notes on a Biography of The Smiths) That’s something that’s important to me as a musician, as a person, even as a mom. As I’ve gotten more experience in life, I’ve found that winning awards, making good grades, going to good colleges, you know, being thin or whatever the thing might be, the process is a lot of what life is about. I think a lot of us grew up in a way where there’s a lot of focus on the end goal rather than the process. It’s really important to see life the way it is. Yeah, it’s sort of a reappearing theme in my album titles as well as my songs and my general philosophy. ![]() ![]() Is that an attitude you try to have in your own life? Lisa Loeb: When you first hear the phrase, it sounds almost like life is tough, but instead of it being that “life is not all it’s cracked up to be,” it’s actually “life is better than a fairy tale.” Life is more rich and full when you live your life with all its ups and downs instead of trying to have a “perfect” life. ![]() TIME: Tell me about the album and the title track. Loeb spoke to TIME about what she learned writing for kids, what it’s like to sing other people’s songs for the first time and why in the world people might think mock turtlenecks are cool again. With her new album No Fairy Tale, which hits stores today, Loeb finally returns to pop music. Follow Loeb-who was catapulted to singer-songwriter stardom when her 1994 song “Stay (I Missed You),” from the soundtrack to Reality Bites, made her the first-ever unsigned artist to have a Billboard number-one single-has spent the last few years devoting herself to projects from acting to eyewear-design to children’s music and books. ![]()
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