MUSIC, KATE NASH

Music

KATE NASH

Language: Advanced level

Source: www.speakup.com.br

Standard: British accent

Although she is only 20 years of age (21 this month –ed), English Singer songwriter Kate Nash has already made a name for herself, thanks to her debut album, Made of Bricks, which was released by Polydor/Universal last year. The album contains the hit single “Foundations,” as well as “Mouthwash,” “Pumpkin Soup and tracks with such explicit titles as “Dickhead” (bad word) and “Shit song,” Kate Nash’s stage shows are theatrical and this could be because her original plan in life was to become an actress. As she explains in this interview, she switched to music after being turned down by the prestigious Bristol Old Vic Theatre School:

KATE NASH

Standard, British London accent

I wanted to go drama school and act. I wanted to be in school and be disciplined and educated and I got rejected. So I got a final rejection letter from the drama school I really wanted to go and I fell down the stairs and broke my foot on the same day and I had these three weeks of…of not being able to do anything or go anywhere and it was those three weeks of not really doing anything that pushed me to kind of…forced me to, like, realize I had to reassess my situation and drama school wasn’t going to work out and so, yeah, I was writing songs I was happy with and I decided, in that three-week gap where I broke my foot, so book a gig.  It was that kind of gave me the guts and it gave me the guts to do it.

AN OLD PUNK

Kate Nash cites punk as one of her influences. For somebody who was born in 1987, this is “old” music:

KATE NASH

I liked Indie music, I loved the Strokes, and I got into punk music when I was about 17 ‘cause I…got the Buzz cocks single, “Going Steady,” record, and I remember going to a market at “the spits,” and asking a…one of this old…old boys at the market to tell me about punk music and he was like. “Oh, my cousin used to be in a band,” and like he got all these old punk records for me and I bought them and then…and then, yeah, so. That was the age I kind of started to find more interesting, alternative music and really take it kind of more seriously, I think.

STAYING SANE

In recent months we have heard too many stories about the disintegration of young singers like Amy Winehouse and Britney Spears. Kate Nash is confident that she won’t go down that road:

KATE NASH:

The fame thing is really weird. I think…at the very beginning it was really exciting to kind of be in magazines and everything and that’s…I used to read stuff and be like “Oh, my God! That’s really cool,” but I don’t read anything because I think, if you do, you get…you…drive yourself crazy because normal people don’t read stuff about themselves every day and like why would you? I’ve got enough people around me that I trust to tell me if I’m doing something wrong, or…if I’m doing something right, so I just kind of leave it as that. Also, I think you should never start believing that you live in Lata land, like these…some people do and I think it all goes wrong, like I live at home and I’ve…I’ve got my friends that I had when I was like five and I’ve got some, you know, at college and I’ve still got normal things go think about in life and…and that is separate and the fame thing, there are some things are really exciting and really fun and really weird and you’ve just got to take it with a pinch of salt, I think, like use what you can from it and get your friends in and get some free stuff and …have a laugh, but I don’t think ever cross over the line or making it your life and like…and taking it seriously because then people just go loopy.