The baseball bats have started for Kim Wilde. The club laid over the shoulder, she takes the “path of devastation”. Hangs your hands in front of your face, the monitors radiate the madness of our time before her: climate catastrophe, cold war, fake news slingshot, orcs that storm the Washington Capitol. “Trail of Destruction” is the name of the single with which the singer announces her comeback album “Closer”.
“Smetting a few mobile phones with the baseball bat? Couldn’t hurt, ”says Wilde with a laugh. “We know that social media is not always good for us.” As a political artist, Wilde, who has published her first work for seven years with “Closer”, was not known. “I don’t see myself as a political artist either,” she says. “But I am at an age when you are a little wiser. I want to name things that go wrong. “She even names her age, full of self -confidence:” I am 64 and glad about it, happy about the transparent in the world. “
Longing ballads follow on Hi-Nrg
Wilde is in the 45th year of her career. In 1981 the daughter of the rock’n’roller Marty Wilde immediately celebrated a world hit with her debut single “Kids in America”. In the following years she was seen as a British, less cracked postpunk counter model to the Americans Madonna and Cyndi Lauper. In the UK, she even lacked the competition. But her last success so far would not be long in coming: the dance megamix of the “Close” plate (1988) and intoxicating singles like “You Came”. The title of her new work simply adds that album classic the “E”, Wilde sees “Closer” in the same tradition: “It is the same spirit”. That’s correct. Longing ballads follow on Hi-Nrg, there is also “Sorrow Replaced”, a duet with her boyfriend Midge Ure, whose “Vienna” she chose as “one of the top 3 songs of the eighties”.
Kin Wilde: “Trail of Destruction”:
In the middle 1990s, Wilde of the music world returned. As a garden designer, she won prices. And campaigned for environmental care, which closes the circle for the “Trail of Destruction” video, which also denounces robbery in nature. “After my farewell to the music, I felt relieved. I felt like I was reduced to my look. It was a fight ”.
Some thought Kim Wilde was the invention of producers. But she composed her songs herself, with her brother Ricky Wilde. The Wildes were born as Smiths. “Kim Smith? That would not have worked. My father was not called Marty either, but reginald. Ask Elton John if he would have believed that he could make a career as Reginald Dwight! ”. She is passionate when the conversation falls on her brother Ricky, which is one year younger. “A genius. The Mozart of his generation. Magic often arises from the work of brother and sister. I love Billie Eilish and Finneas, Karen and Richard Carpenter. You can feel familiarity in their songs. “
“Musikladen” – “That was the best show of everyone”
It was also her family who protected the young wild in the 1980s and toured the continents as an accompaniment. That decade was certainly no less sexist than today’s, but Wilde, as she says, was spared. It is worshiped in this country. At the beginning of the nineties, she went to the studio with Nena, from “somehow, somewhere, somewhere” became “Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime”. “Nena and I celebrated our breakthrough in the same era. The fashion, our appearance, the dynamic – we were similar. ”Her eyes shine when she pronounces this name in accent -free German:“ Musikladen ” -“ That was the best show of everyone ”. All British stars that she liked did not hit her in her home country, but on a concert tour in Germany: Billy Idol, Sting, the Rolling Stones.
Now the look into the future. Kim Wilde is looking forward to her concert in November in Bochum. “Falls together with my 65th birthday! Ideal. I always get the most beautiful gifts from you. ”Just no cell phones. They would probably sacrifice their club.