![]() ![]() ![]() When the Pet Shop Boys opportunity came up, I was ecstatic.” It was just a matter of who I should work with. “My friend (and manager) Gene Simmons (of Kiss) put the bug in my ear a few years ago about doing a pop album of contemporary songs,” she said. I don’t even think I wanted it promoted.”Īfter that venture, she stuck to live, Broadway-style albums until last year, when she signed with Epic/CBS Records and decided to plunge into the pop mainstream. “That one was done during the disco era,” she recalled. This is her first contemporary album since the disco-oriented “Tropical Nights” a dozen years ago. “Losing My Mind” never made the pop singles chart, but was fairly popular in dance clubs, cracking the Top 25 on the club-play chart. In late September, is in Billboard’s basement, bubbling under the Top 100. ![]() The album and the first single, “Losing My Mind”-a Stephen Sondheim song from the musical “Follies”-were hits over there, particularly in England, where both made the Top 10.Īmerican audiences, though, are still leery of the new Liza. What I’m about musically isn’t just what I sing with Frank (Sinatra) and Sammy (Davis Jr.)”īut will audiences accept this hipper Liza?Įuropean audiences already have. “I like (rapper) Heavy D and (rocker) Joan Jett. “But I am hip,” Minnelli protested with a sweeping wave of her arm vigorous enough to knock the ash off her cigarette. It’s another part of her image, however, that may work against her making it big in the youth-dominated pop scene where the Pet Shop Boys are considered hip and Minnelli is mostly regarded as an easy-listening performer-and not at all hip. me?,” she deadpanned when the subject of insecurity came up. It seemed obvious that the elegant superstar also has an insecure and vulnerable side. While marvelously glib and sophisticated, there were steady flashes of her little-girl-lost persona-enhanced by those big sad eyes. Minnelli was giving off a jumble of messages. ![]()
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