RS: What was in your mind when you went in the studio and rerecorded
I Think We're Alone Now for the album?
Tiffany: We had to do the track a little different, but did not want
to take away from it and go so far out that people would go 'well,
this is a whole different take on the song.' So we were kind of
treading lightly a little bit in that situation. I was working with
the Backroom Boys and they said to take a stab at singing it and we'll
try to get this close to what the original record sounded like
vocally. I started singing it and he kept looking through the glass
at me and said to my husband - is she really singing or is this a
playback? I sang the whole song through and he said 'I think it's
done because you sang that dead on.' He said, 'you know that song,
don't you' and I said 'yes, pretty much.'
RS: So who are the Backroom Boys?
Tiffany: The crew at Backroom Recording Studio - Tim C and everyone.
RS: You also worked with Second Sun, I saw you with them in Miami two
years ago. How did you hook up with those guys?
Tiffany: I'm a fan, as was my assistant at the time, and he suggested
that I try to do something with them. I was a bit shy to approach
them because as a performer, I respect peoples' space. My assistant
pushed me to set up a meeting and the Second Sun guys came right back
and said yes. Working with them was amazing. I learned so much and I
hope that we will continue to work together. They have really a long
future ahead of them. I'm amazed at their shows, there's so much
energy.
RS: I find it hard to believe that you're shy because I remember
seeing you on stage with the singer from Second Sun and the two of you
had such a chemistry going back and forth. When you're doing those
kinds of shows as opposed to the shows you're doing now, do you get a
different energy from the crowd because maybe they don't know about
your history as much?
Tiffany: The crowd always makes it or breaks it really. Once I got
to know the guys it was different, especially when writing "He Said
She Said." We talked a lot about dating so we had already kind of
started that chemistry a little bit. They're great guys and I look at
them as like family now. When you're up there and you're performing
you have to feel it, that's what we do when we're representing our
song.
RS: Writing your own songs and having more control of your music,
that is great. You're also taking more control of your career with the
different websites. How do you think the internet's helping you or
how have things changed from fifteen years ago when you first got
started?
Tiffany: Well it's definitely different, the internet is a way to
reach out to the fans and get response right away. Everything is so
instant With my website, I have my merchandise there and everything
like that. It's nice to be in big stores and stuff but for me, I
found it easier just to have my merchandise on my website. I know
what I'm selling and I know the orders that are coming in, and they
actually are getting in to the hands of the fans. What was really
frustrating with me going through a lot of smaller record companies
with the Color of Silence, it was like we'd all sit in these meetings
and decide on things and then my hands were tied, I was completely
dependent on those people to make it happen. Unfortunately, a lot of
things don't get done. For me it's been more pleasurable to just do
it my self. It's a smaller scale but I know what's going on and I
know what we can do and what we can't do. I'm learning as I go along
more of the business I think than anything. The websites and the
internet are my sounding boards, I would say.
RS: Which web page is officially yours where you contribute to?
Tiffany: I contribute to tiffanymusicsite.com and the myspace page.
It's hosted by a girl who's actually in England. We talk all the time
and she has my full approval. I give her all my stuff and everything
so she's my in the know girl.
RS: Has anyone come up to you at a gay club and said 'oh my God, I
saw you at the mall, it's so cool to be seeing you again?'
Tiffany: Oh, all the time. I had a guy last night and he said, 'I'm
seeing you tonight and I saw you when I was ten in New Jersey. You
brought me up on stage because it was my birthday and you sang "Happy
Birthday" to me.' He said that I hadn't aged, so I was like 'oh, I
love you.'
RS: One last question, is there anything you'd like to say to all
the fans out there?
Tiffany: Come to the show! I'm doing a show that's a little bit of
old school, some of the new stuff and definitely popping in a few
songs that I haven't done in years, since the first couple of tours.
I'm really pumping up my show nowadays and every show is different, I
feel the crowd's energy. If it's a Tiffany fan crowd, they might get
a "Johnny Scott," "the Inside Mood," or "Hold an Old Friend's Hand."
You never know.
