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Cee Lo’s Soft Side in ‘Lady Killer’
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(AP) - Forget killing them with
kindness — Cee Lo Green wants to
kill you with music.
The singer-rapper-producer's
new CD is titled "The Lady Killer,"
and while it has some romantic tunes
on it, the title more reflects his ap­
proach to connecting with his audi­
ence: He's looking to do it with lethal
precision.
"Instead of random gunfire, like,
it's about marksmanship, directly in
the center of the cross hairs. POW,
single shot, done, clean, from 100
miles away," he explained a recent Singer-rapper Cee Lo Green has
interview.
ably could have done better, but it's
"It's a side of myself I had yet to the most honest the first time around.
showcase — a softer side. And it's
AP: Why are you so critical
more straightforward and direct, about yourself now?
which is synonymous with killer."
Cee Lo: I guess because I know
AP: Y ou've gotten a lot of critical better. I've experienced more, you
love for this new disc. Have you know. I'm a lot more involved and
been checking the reviews?
enthusiastic and in control and so,
Cee Lo: I have quite a bit of it sent you know, I aspire to master that feel
to me. So yeah, I'm up on the popular and that aspect of my own personal
opinion of the album. ... I feel so art. ... So I have a very genuine
fortunate — all warm and tingly.
concern about how it's perceived
AP: Are you a perfectionist when and the production and fine-tooth
it comes to making music?
combing every intricate detail.
Cee Lo: I'm becoming more of,
AP: When you write songs, are
not a perfectionist, but a practitio­ they coming from personal situa­
ner, meaning I'm getting more in­ tions or ideas and dreams?
volved in the technical aspect of it.
Cee Lo: It's not a whole truth, the
When I really took the leap was with story line that is. It just depends.
Gnarls Barkley's "Odd C ouple."... Not everything is biographical.
See, the music I do has a very hu­ Some things are third-person. Some
mane kind of quality. ... Life isn't things are vicarious, other things
perfect and I do believe that there's are cathartic.
funk in the flaw. So a lot of it 1 let it
AP: "Forget You" was released
be simply because, I mean, this is on iTunes a month after the song
only recently I've begun to be my went viral. Did you and the label
own worst critic. Earlier in my career think of releasing it once the song
I let so many things go, and I look was everywhere?
back in some regret because I prob-
Cee Lo: No. We had to kind of
a new CD titled ‘The Lady Killer. ’
react'after "Forget You" was re­
leased. It was such an im m ediate,
overw helm ing response. Far be­
hind my own personal expecta­
tions, you know. I think I speak on
behalf o f alm ost everyone to say
that it ju st surpasses what we
could have im agined. ... A song
entitled as such, again, I could've
m ore easily assum ed where it
w o u ld n 't w ork as o p p o sed to
where it would, you know.
AP: How does it feel to see
Gwyneth Paltrow perform the song
on "Glee" and similar happenings?
Cee Lo: Tubular (laughs). It's
awesome man. What do you think?
From Gwyneth Paltrow to William
Shatner to the numerous many ver­
sions and covers and parodies on
the Internet, on YouTube, it’s like,
"Wow." It's phenomenal, it's hum ­
bling and it's em pow ering all at
the same time. It's awesome in the
literal sense o f the word and I'm
just very fortunate, very lucky, very
blessed. It's all that anyone could
ask for. It's more than enough incen­
tive to keep going.
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