RS: For Look on the Floor, where did the idea come from to rework
the Hypnotic Tango track?
Keren: The Swedish guys who we were working with, Korpi & BlackCell,
asked if we remembered this song that had an amazing chorus. We
listened to it and thought the chorus was amazing but we didn't want
to do a cover version of anything, really. We started resinging the
line of the chorus, and the lyrics are hilarious, they're just so crap
and we were going to change them. Then we became sort of amused by
it. And it was like, right, what are we going to call it? Oh, look
on the floor, that's ridiculous. We came up with so many different
sort of things and we wrote a song around it and tried to just give it
a completely different feel. Then we wrote another one around it as
well to try and change it. We thought initially it might be a bit too
odd, like it sounded like a couple of songs put together because the
verse maybe didn't go with the chorus. So we did one that was more of
a sort of just a complete dance reworking of it. When you listen to
it, I really like the fact it was unusual, if you take that chorus and
the original track you would never expect anyone to do what we've
done. I'm not sure how it happened really, but it's turned out to be
one of my favorite tracks.
RS: The videos for the album are quite nice. The Look on the
Floor set is club-ready, but I am wondering about The Move in My
Direction video. I didn't really understand it, was there a story
there that I missed?
Keren: No, we saw some pictures in a magazine - the neon graveyard
where they put all the old signs in Vegas and thought it looked like
an amazing film set. We'd never been to Vegas, so we thought, well
let's go to Vegas then. It was so bloody hot, a hundred and ten
degrees and I had five-inch Louis Vuitton shoes on and I had to walk
up and down the street. After the first half hour, my feet were
actually bleeding. They were the wrong size and I couldn't keep them
on, so I'm just hobbling up and down the street in absolute agony. So,
I'm not in it much. There was a gorgeous cowboy in it, though... The
cowboy made the video for me.
RS: Let's get a bit personal. If Bananarama was a mixed drink,
what would be the ingredients?
Keren: Well it's always to be vodka and tonic. With us, it couldn't
be anything else.
RS: Do you think you'll ever write a tell-all book?
Keren: Everyone asks that because when you're traveling around and
talking to people different stories come up, hilarious things that
have happened. Strange things that have happened to us on our
travels- and we could make an hysterical book.
But I think my feelings about doing a book is if you're going to do a
book you don't really want to leave too much out. I used to think I
couldn't do that, what if my mum read it. Now I sort of think, well
apart from the fact I wouldn't want her to read it, do I really want
my son reading absolutely everything? Surely that's not a very good
example to him.
The last time I went up to university and said to my son, I really
think you should concentrate on your studies because you've been going
out too much. And he said, 'well, mum, what time did you get in last
night?' I said five, and he said, 'well, I was in at four, so I don't
think you can tell me what to do, can you?' So yes, I mean maybe I've
already set him a bad example.
