Darren Hayes has branded his former report label “controlling”.
The 50-year-old singer – who launched two albums with Savage Backyard and his first two solo LPs through Columbia Data – launched ‘Gay’, his third report below his personal Powdered Sugar label, earlier this yr however he doesn’t assume his former bosses would have allowed him to make use of the title or have such inventive freedom.
He stated: “I might by no means have been capable of make this report on a significant label. By no means. Even the truth that my first launch from the report was six minutes lengthy. No method. The title alone – it will have been like ‘Do we’ve to name it that?’ or ‘May you name it one thing else?’
“Another person may. Sam Smith completely may, as a result of Sam arrived as Sam. Olly Alexander is Olly and we love Olly however as a result of I’ve the historical past of me, it will have been ‘Can we’ve one thing that’s only a bit like Savage Backyard?’ It might have been very tough.”
And Darren discovered working with a significant label “exhausting” as a result of he was concerned so little within the choice making surrounding his personal profession.
He completely instructed BANG Showbiz: “I simply didn’t need to have these exhausting arguments in regards to the size of the songs or the style. I made a decision to not have these arguments about 12 years in the past. I used to be bored with them.
“I used to have to listen to the outcomes of focus group conferences about images. That’s how controlling it was once. It was once like ‘Effectively, right here is the duvet you wished however we put it by way of a spotlight group and so they stated your chin regarded too weak on this {photograph}. And right here is the one the president desires, so I’m sorry however the focus group stated your strongest characteristic was your lips.’
“It was exhausting.”
However the ‘Poison Blood’ hitmaker acknowledged the “energy” of a significant label is useful.
He defined: “The draw back is that it’s nonetheless rather more highly effective to have a multinational firm taking your music TV and radio as a result of they’ll leverage one other artist.
“They’ll say ‘Hey, right here’s the brand new Darren Hayes single’ and radio can say ‘Yeah, not likely feeling it’ and the label can say ‘Effectively we’ve this celebrity artist taking part in your Jingle Ball. What if he didn’t play the Jingle Ball?’ and the radio will go ‘All proper, we’ll play Darren Hayes.’ “
