Fake Sugar Beth Ditto

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Album-Release:
2017

HRA-Release:
16.06.2017

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  • 1Fire03:11
  • 2In and Out03:42
  • 3Fake Sugar03:31
  • 4Savoir Faire03:39
  • 5We Could Run03:31
  • 6Oo La La03:46
  • 7Go Baby Go03:05
  • 8Oh My God04:46
  • 9Love in Real Life04:05
  • 10Do You Want Me To03:09
  • 11Lover03:38
  • 12Clouds (Song for John)02:32
  • Total Runtime42:35

Info for Fake Sugar



After 17 years of kicking out increasingly dancy garage-punk with the Gossip, Beth Ditto will make her solo debut with Fake Sugar, set for release on June 16 via Virgin Records. “Fire,” the album’s leadoff track and first single, premiered last night as BBC Radio 1’s “Hottest Record in the World.” Listen to “Fire” HERE and purchase the single HERE.

The pre-order for Fake Sugar is underway now at https://bethditto.lnk.to/FakeSugar. Fans who pre-order the digital album will instantly receive “Fire.” See below for the full track listing.

Ditto – who will play sold-out shows in Berlin, Paris and London in April – enlisted Jennifer Decilveo (Andra Day, Ryn Weaver) as her primary collaborator on Fake Sugar. The producer masterfully balanced out Ditto’s punk bias with pop flare and perspective. As Ditto puts it, “She was the rollerblades to my roller skates. We’d argue all day long and I loved it.”

On Fake Sugar, Ditto approaches love, loss, looking back and moving forward with all the sexiness, poignancy, power and beauty befitting such an iconoclastic artist. The album is a mash-up of driving blues, malt-shop pop, swooning rock and countrified soul. “In and Out” is a hip-shaker with a ’50s girl group vibe, “Savoir Faire” pairs a disco stomp with Ditto’s crackling rock vocal and “Go Baby Go” is a tribute to Suicide’s Alan Vega, decked out in black leather, racing down an interstellar aural highway. On “Oh My God,” Ditto’s rawness, quaver and cool split the difference between Tina Turner and Bobbie Gentry.

Ditto was raised in the small Arkansas town of Judsonia. “People ask me where I get my confidence,” she says. “Talk to my mother.” Her mom was superhuman: a nurse who was single and raising eight children. Ditto’s dad was a honky-tonk sound man who, when it was his weekend, would take her to work, hop her up on Black Jack gum and Cherry Coke, and teach her to two-step with her feet on his boots. Ditto lit out of town at age 18 along with her future band mates, and settled in the musical hub of Olympia, Washington.

“I was running away from the bad parts of Southern culture,” recalls Ditto. “I’m old enough now and so grateful for my family that I can finally embrace the good in where I grew up.” The lyrics of Fake Sugar are full of such allusions, from rhymes cribbed from schoolyard handclap games to slang like “Yankee dime” (a kiss).

In addition to releasing six acclaimed albums with the Gossip, Ditto has recorded with such artists as Blondie, disco legend Cerrone and drumstep DJ Netsky, collaborated with Jean Paul Gaultier on her eponymous plus-sized luxury clothing line, modeled for Marc Jacobs and appeared in Tom Ford’s Oscar-nominated film, Nocturnal Animals. She’s also a newlywed, which has given her a fresh perspective on romance that informs several songs on Fake Sugar. “This is adulthood, baby,” she quips. “You fought for marriage equality, now you gotta live in it.”

Beth Ditto, vocals



Beth Ditto
Mary Beth Patterson, known by her stage name Beth Ditto (born February 19, 1981, in Searcy, Arkansas) is an American singer-songwriter, most famous for her work with the indie rock band Gossip.

At 13, she moved out of her mother™s house and went to live with her aunt. A resident of Portland, Oregon, she is a close friend of Scissor Sisters lead singer Ana Matronic, and considers her favorite song to be Oh Bondage, Up Yours by X-Ray Spex. She courted mild controversy in 2006 when, during an interview for NME magazine, she claimed to have eaten squirrels as a child, saying that people in Arkansas just do “ theyd think you were a freak if you ate squid there!

Ditto is known for her noticeable stage dances and her unique and revealing image. She classes herself as a punk, and thus does not wear deodorant or shave under her armpits, having once remarked that I think punks usually smell. She also formerly contributed an advice column on body image to The Guardian newspaper.

In February 2009, she was featured in London as the cover model for the premiere of Love magazine with prominent public advertising. On July 9, 2009, Beths fashion collection for the UK retailer Evans was released for sale, both online, and in selected stores across the UK.

Ditto on the premiere cover of Londons Love Magazine. She has been an outspoken advocate for large women being body-positive and has been regularly photographed as an editorial model.

Ditto, who is a lesbian, is well known for her outspoken support of both LGBT and feminist causes. Her most recent modeling work consisted of opening the Jean Paul Gaultier spring 2011 fashion show during Paris Fashion Week on October 2, 2010.

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