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בראיון חדש נלי מספרת שהיא רשמה שיר שנכנס לסרט החדש של גניפר לופז או משו כזה,תוכניות עתידיות ..ועוד ועוד: Q: Your approach onstage has been different on this tour. Is there anything in particular you've picked up on, new lessons that have become clear since you've been out on the road? A: Yeah, I think my performance style has changed a little bit. It's kind of funny - I've played every kind of show, from the beginning when I was just playing club tours and huge festival stages like Glastonbury, to now my own arena tour or amphitheatre tour. This (U.S.) tour is large theatres. The stage is more sophisticated looking, more sophisticated lighting, a larger entourage - more dancers on the stage, costume changes and things like that. But I've never lost sight that it's all about the music. I think I'm a little better now at reading the energy of the crowd and flowing and trying to create atmosphere and mood with my music. I just rely on the music and nothing else - just rely on the tone of songs to set the mood for the concerts. I just let that energy build and ebb and flow, and just try to have fun out there. My show is always going to be a connected show, where the crowd leaves feeling energized and happier than when they came. I think a lot of my songs have a real positive energy to them. Some are reflective and pensive, so are there some more quiet moments. But I think that's what's No. 1 to me - keeping that connection with that crowd, not being so robotic on the stage that you forget they're there. I don't think I'll ever be that type of performer. My satisfaction comes from feeling people's mood change according to what song I'm playing. I think it's because I write my songs - my songs are so close to me that when I sing them, it's coming from a really pure place. It's still really special. I definitely still have songs that almost make me cry every time I sing them. Q: Well, that's a good sign, then. If they can still get inside you in that way, that bodes well for how others will continue to hear them over time. It might speak to the longevity of the music. A: Thank you! Yeah, there's this one song from "Folklore" called "Try" where, consistently, there's always somebody crying in the audience, or I start to cry. And I don't know why. But it's a nice moment in the show. Q: Is there anything you can pinpoint, in terms of the makeup of your audiences today, compared to, say, 2000? Is there a different kind of crowd on hand these days? A: For me, it's hard to tell. When I started touring, I purposely kept the ticket prices quite low, therefore I had more young people attend my shows. It was always really diverse, though. I'd have 5-year-olds and 80-year-olds, you know? Some older sophisticated couples, kids who are into hip-hop, kids who are into rock, teenage girls. So really, there was never any prerequisite for being a Nelly fan. There really is no real prerequisite for being a fan of my music, I don't think. (LAUGHS) It's so vast. You can come from any walk of life to become a fan. The new tour, I've noticed in America … For instance in New York I noticed the crowd was a bit older than last time I played New York. I don't know if it's because the ticket price is a little bit more expensive than last time out, or because the venue was a theatre that was a more mature type of venue, I guess you could say. But I played a club date in Jersey a couple of nights before that, and it was a lot of younger people. So I don't know. Q: It's been almost exactly a year since the album came out. When you look back now on what's got to have been a pretty crazy and frantic year for you, is there any new perspective that's come to you about this whole thing? Have you had a chance to step back and absorb it all and put it in its place? A: Only recently has it kind of sunk in where I'm going, "Oh my goodness, this is really quite phenomenal." It's the enthusiasm, I think. From day one when this album came out, I noticed the enthusiasm from people - loving the music, loving the album, being so happy when they talked about it. That's the real difference I noticed. I think this is an album where the music really speaks for itself. ... It's this gift that keeps on giving. I always wanted a record like "Say it Right" - like this magical four minutes that, like, you don't have to be there, nobody has to see your face. They hear it and they get transported somewhere that makes them feel… really, it's magnetic, I guess. I always longed for that type of album. It's just kind of been sitting at No. 1 in Europe and the world charts. It just bounces around No. 1, 2, 3. It's kind of amazing. It gets to the point where you see that the music is speaking for itself. In the past, I think I've had to hustle a little more, get out there and really push and work to get my voice heard and to make people understand my songs - having to explain my songs in order for people to understand them and like them. It was a little more conceptual, a little more intellectualised. This album is not intellectualised at all. It's just all feeling and mood and music, which I love. It's a nice sort of change for me. Not that my music wasn't catchy before, or people didn't like it. There's just something special about this album that people are really digging. Q: There's an irony to that, I guess: This album has an immediacy to it - very much the definition of pop music, with that all-about-the-moment feeling. But then it's had this staying power. Clearly not just another disposable record that came and hit and then on to the next flavour of the month. You apparently tapped into something. A: We had a lot of songs to choose from. We had 40 songs. So we got to pick the top 12 out of the 40. The songs had their own little "American Idol" competition. (LAUGHS) Only the strongest songs remained on the album. That's what I wanted - a more iconic album, more streamlined, more just about the songs. Q: Have you even had a chance to start thinking about what's next? Are there songs starting to pile up?
בראיון חדש נלי מספרת שהיא רשמה שיר שנכנס לסרט החדש של גניפר לופז או משו כזה,תוכניות עתידיות ..ועוד ועוד: Q: Your approach onstage has been different on this tour. Is there anything in particular you've picked up on, new lessons that have become clear since you've been out on the road? A: Yeah, I think my performance style has changed a little bit. It's kind of funny - I've played every kind of show, from the beginning when I was just playing club tours and huge festival stages like Glastonbury, to now my own arena tour or amphitheatre tour. This (U.S.) tour is large theatres. The stage is more sophisticated looking, more sophisticated lighting, a larger entourage - more dancers on the stage, costume changes and things like that. But I've never lost sight that it's all about the music. I think I'm a little better now at reading the energy of the crowd and flowing and trying to create atmosphere and mood with my music. I just rely on the music and nothing else - just rely on the tone of songs to set the mood for the concerts. I just let that energy build and ebb and flow, and just try to have fun out there. My show is always going to be a connected show, where the crowd leaves feeling energized and happier than when they came. I think a lot of my songs have a real positive energy to them. Some are reflective and pensive, so are there some more quiet moments. But I think that's what's No. 1 to me - keeping that connection with that crowd, not being so robotic on the stage that you forget they're there. I don't think I'll ever be that type of performer. My satisfaction comes from feeling people's mood change according to what song I'm playing. I think it's because I write my songs - my songs are so close to me that when I sing them, it's coming from a really pure place. It's still really special. I definitely still have songs that almost make me cry every time I sing them. Q: Well, that's a good sign, then. If they can still get inside you in that way, that bodes well for how others will continue to hear them over time. It might speak to the longevity of the music. A: Thank you! Yeah, there's this one song from "Folklore" called "Try" where, consistently, there's always somebody crying in the audience, or I start to cry. And I don't know why. But it's a nice moment in the show. Q: Is there anything you can pinpoint, in terms of the makeup of your audiences today, compared to, say, 2000? Is there a different kind of crowd on hand these days? A: For me, it's hard to tell. When I started touring, I purposely kept the ticket prices quite low, therefore I had more young people attend my shows. It was always really diverse, though. I'd have 5-year-olds and 80-year-olds, you know? Some older sophisticated couples, kids who are into hip-hop, kids who are into rock, teenage girls. So really, there was never any prerequisite for being a Nelly fan. There really is no real prerequisite for being a fan of my music, I don't think. (LAUGHS) It's so vast. You can come from any walk of life to become a fan. The new tour, I've noticed in America … For instance in New York I noticed the crowd was a bit older than last time I played New York. I don't know if it's because the ticket price is a little bit more expensive than last time out, or because the venue was a theatre that was a more mature type of venue, I guess you could say. But I played a club date in Jersey a couple of nights before that, and it was a lot of younger people. So I don't know. Q: It's been almost exactly a year since the album came out. When you look back now on what's got to have been a pretty crazy and frantic year for you, is there any new perspective that's come to you about this whole thing? Have you had a chance to step back and absorb it all and put it in its place? A: Only recently has it kind of sunk in where I'm going, "Oh my goodness, this is really quite phenomenal." It's the enthusiasm, I think. From day one when this album came out, I noticed the enthusiasm from people - loving the music, loving the album, being so happy when they talked about it. That's the real difference I noticed. I think this is an album where the music really speaks for itself. ... It's this gift that keeps on giving. I always wanted a record like "Say it Right" - like this magical four minutes that, like, you don't have to be there, nobody has to see your face. They hear it and they get transported somewhere that makes them feel… really, it's magnetic, I guess. I always longed for that type of album. It's just kind of been sitting at No. 1 in Europe and the world charts. It just bounces around No. 1, 2, 3. It's kind of amazing. It gets to the point where you see that the music is speaking for itself. In the past, I think I've had to hustle a little more, get out there and really push and work to get my voice heard and to make people understand my songs - having to explain my songs in order for people to understand them and like them. It was a little more conceptual, a little more intellectualised. This album is not intellectualised at all. It's just all feeling and mood and music, which I love. It's a nice sort of change for me. Not that my music wasn't catchy before, or people didn't like it. There's just something special about this album that people are really digging. Q: There's an irony to that, I guess: This album has an immediacy to it - very much the definition of pop music, with that all-about-the-moment feeling. But then it's had this staying power. Clearly not just another disposable record that came and hit and then on to the next flavour of the month. You apparently tapped into something. A: We had a lot of songs to choose from. We had 40 songs. So we got to pick the top 12 out of the 40. The songs had their own little "American Idol" competition. (LAUGHS) Only the strongest songs remained on the album. That's what I wanted - a more iconic album, more streamlined, more just about the songs. Q: Have you even had a chance to start thinking about what's next? Are there songs starting to pile up?