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‘TALK ON CORNERS’: THE FOLK-POP TRIUMPH OF THE CORRS’ SECOND ALBUM 21-Oct-2023 20:37:51
| CorrsClub Time: 13-Sep-2024 15:47:25 |
A great, in depth retrospective about TOC in Dig!, a music online feature:
https://www.thisisdig.com/feature/talk-on-corners-the-corrs-album-story/
Some snippets:
It's a pretty good aticle that mashes up a lot of the interviews the band did over the years, including two by John Hughes were he candidly talked in detail about the excruciating experience that was the release of TOC :
"THE BACKSTORY: “WE GO FROM NOTHING TO LOSE, EVERYTHING TO WIN, TO GET IT WRONG AND IT’S ALL OVER”
With Runaway having proven The Corrs could write hit singles, the siblings were under pressure to turn out more songs of a similar ilk when they started working on their second record. As Andrea Corr stated in her memoir, Barefoot Pilgrimage, “We go from nothing to lose, everything to win, to get it wrong and it’s all over.” Expectations over what would become Talk On Corners were rising, but writing what Andrea Corr called the “H word” wouldn’t be easy.
Luckily, the group had more than enough talent to step up to the challenge. But though all four siblings had sufficient songwriting chops, the very idea of writing hit singles to order took some adjusting to. For this reason, The Corrs were encouraged to collaborate with other industry heavyweights, such as US producer Glen Ballard, the man who had overseen Alanis Morrisette’s massively successful 1996 album, Jagged Little Pill.
The band subsequently flew out to California to take part in group songwriting sessions, and they soon found themselves rubbing shoulders with numerous songwriters of high renown. “Apparently a ‘hit’ (there, I said it) wasn’t something we could write alone,” Andrea reflected. “So the writing sessions in California began. Pairing each of us off with different, tried-and-tested ‘hitmakers’.” Reportedly, this didn’t sit easily with Jim Corr, who retreated to his bedroom with a guitar to prove to himself that he could do it alone. It’s all well and good having a helping hand to write a hit, he reasoned, but if The Corrs could do it themselves, the success would be theirs to own."
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