Just couldn't wait...

Can you turn this picture into a guitar riff?

Drat, I saw this over at Clouded Senses a day or two ago, just after the birthday post. There's a certain day of the week more appropriate for it but...holy crap.

This article is so full of gold that I almost want to print it as is. But no, I must filter out all but SUPERGOLD.

On doing "the Canadian thing":

"I started off doing the whole Canadian thing. I wrote with my band. I wrote with James Robertson who I did the last record ("Noise From The Basement") with, and then I got summoned by the Gods of L.A. to come down to the Capitol Records building and they put me with, I'm serious, any person, any hit songwriter that you could name, I've probably written with them.

"So I'm thinking, 'Oh God, they're trying to turn me into another one of those hitmaker dolls and I'm not getting what I want.'"

Big in Japan:

...Overall the album didn't become the worldwide mega-hit everyone expected.

"Especially in North America," Sweetnam agrees. "The one place it did do well was in Japan, which now I'm drawing a lot of inspiration from because they're the ones who truly got what I was trying to do."

"Probably the coolest A&R guy ever":

"The L.A. world can be so scary and can be so intimidating at first, for young artists especially, going in there and knowing that everybody is breathing down your neck 'hits hits hits.' Luckily, I am equipped with great management, and great A&R guy [Julian Raymond at Capitol], who was secretly behind everyone's back going, 'Do more punk rock, Skye.'"

Skye makes Rancid guy kind of uncomfortable:

"Julian is a huge Rancid fan and he said, 'I'm going to make this phone call to see if this can work, 'and I'm like,' Please God, Tim, invite me over to your house. We will have so much fun,'" Sweetnam gushes. ...We wrote a song that is one of the most awesome songs, I think, on the record called 'Ghosts.' It's about going to the big city and being afraid of it, but still thinking you can prevail over it all.

Jaw still on floor:

"So I wrote this song and then I go and sell out," Sweetnam says abruptly.

She's talking, of course, jokingly, about working with The Matrix, a.k.a. Scott Spock, Lauren Christy and Graham Edwards, who produced a series of hits for Britney Spears, Hilary Duff, and Avril Lavigne, among others.

"I go to The Matrix and everybody's going, 'Skye, what are you doing?' I'm thinking, 'I have an anti-Matrix sign on my guitar and I'm going to The Matrix,' who obviously wrote tons of hits, wrote Avril's record, who I've heard about, her name, everyday for the last three years of my life. So I'm like, 'What am I doing? I'm committing artistic suicide right now.'

"But they were actually thinking the exact same thing as I was thinking," Sweetnam continues with refreshing honesty.

"They were thinking, 'We don't have a credible name in this business because all we do is take young girls and write hit songs for them,' and they just worked with Korn on their record so they were like, 'We're trying to do something different.' So I'm like, 'Oh my God, finally somebody who understands.'

"So I brought my art books and I'm like, 'Can you turn this picture of a wolf eating a girl into a guitar riff?' and they're like, 'Okay, let's try it.'

"So a lot of it is high concept; a lot of it rocks, like Nine Inch Nails meets Britney Spears. I can dance to it. I'm very very proud of this record."

PLEASE get more excited about this.