A “Fuck Off!” To Brandi Carlile and a smashed iPad during the recordings for their album.
During the writing and recording sessions for the new album who Believes in Angels? With Brandi Carlile, Elton John allowed cameras for the first time, making the entire creative process filmed. These recordings were summarized in a new making-of-film. And then it crashed between Elton John and Brandi Carlile.
The trailer for the making-of-film
What Brandi Carlile and Elton John say
“I was very grumpy, I was tired, I didn’t feel comfortable. And I was extremely nervous. This nervousness let some spark fly, ”said Elton John the “Guardian”. Brandi Carlile continued: “He smashed his iPad. He smashed headphones. There were really amazing classic Elton-John outbursts, ”she said. “My texts were torn and thrown onto the floor – he only: ‘Fuck off, brandi!’ And roared: ‘predictable! Cliché! ‘”
“I’m 77. If I don’t strain, what makes it come about to continue? Just be ‘Elton John’ for the rest of my life? That would have fulfilled me with absolute horror, ”he told the Guardian. “I could easily do a ‘Elton John’ plate. But I didn’t want to do that anymore. I wanted a challenge. “
In the interview, Brandi Carlile announced that she never said Elton John that he had crossed a border with his outbreaks, “but there were definitely points that I had the feeling”. Furthermore, she added that he did not like to be celebrated as one of her musical heroes: “Elton does not want to be put on a pedestal. He doesn’t like to hear stories about my love for him in childhood. It hung as much as I perceived Elton and not from who Elton really is. ”
According to Elton, his outbursts were to be afraid of failure. They subsided when the album took shape. “It was not that I was anxious because of others, I was anxious because of me,” he said. “As soon as we finished the first three songs, we knew that we had something. And I was much more relaxed … but I was a bit of a nightmare. “
Dear words about Brandi Carlile
The album announcement came only a few hours after Elton John announced new material in personal letters to his fans. “When we met, I fell in love with her and we were immediately sympathetic,” he wrote and remembered his time with Brandi Carlile: “It was a connection, a real connection, emotionally, musical. And it’s one of the best friendships of my life. “