The four truths of Kim Wilde

Platinum blondes, disco, the U.S. market, of Bowie, baba-cool, life in general, and projects of the pulpy English doll.

Well, Kim, Kim dear, would be to agree: you have always insisted that we consider you a rocker, which honors you, and you launch into a cover almost disco, this' Dancing in the dark ', there ... So what?
Yuck, isn't it monstrous??!!! True, I do not like either, I've heard enough (pouting, then bursts out laughing)! No, it's okay, do not say anything, but I do not think this is a good disc. I never wanted it to be released, for many reasons ...

Do you hate disco?
Are you crazy? No, I love it! The thing is, I do not like this song. It does not work, and more importantly, I have no pleasure in singing it, except for small bits here and there...

Does it have anything to do with Bowie, as you asked Nile Rodgers to produce it?
The album 'Let's dance' doesn't do much for me. No song I like, besides, I did not listen. No, Nile Rodgers, is an idea of my record company in the United States. They absolutely wanted me to have a hit there. So 'Dancing in the dark' was needed, you see a little the U.S. market ... They made me a little brainwashing, style - you'll see, with this we hit the jackpot - and presto, we went on 'Dancing in the Dark', which anyway was not one of my songs. And so they came with their Nile Rodgers. I mean why not? Nile Rodgers is superb, right? I told myself, this guy will transform the song, it might be a good plan. Voila, it was not an idea from me, ultimately.

You give in too psychedelic, right? This song on the album, 'Dream Sequence'?
Waououououououououuuuu! Funny, no? Yes, Ricky and I was a little freaked out about the hippies. It took us like a trip one day! It still had the Crosby, Stills and Nash, Joni Mitchell, Carole King and everything in our bottle! We also had the Kinks when they were in the trip, and the Beatles too.

You had a flash?
It is! Ricky will tell you, that's his thing, all around us!

You, in any case, you do not do anything to escape your next pinup, 'Love Blonde' ...
(Bad luck: while yesterday, I can swear she was in leather skirt super tight, super short and super sexy, she is now, as if on purpose, jogging, tennis shoes). What? This? (She looks in the mirror, startled.)

Today, maybe not. But yesterday?
Bah, I do a bit of it as an actress. I do my show, my stage persona, my public persona. But you know, I do not take it too seriously. That's my role, here. What is funny is that I'm vaguely blonde and sexy, and I sing just stories sexy blondes, but that's all. I do not know what people may think, myself, I felt like I dress. That is like if I go for clothes at a party!

That's how you see life, 'not too seriously'?
(Swallowing a flute of champagne): Hmmmmmmmmh ... Yes.

This time, no chaperone to escort you, no manager, just your brother Ricky and your mom, Joyce. The family circle is still there around you?
Nah, not really. My mother follows me in some of my travels to see me sometimes. Without that, we would not see much of one another. And also, she deals with business, so occasionally she moves with me to see a little of the faces of people with whom she works.

She's your manager, or what?
Manager? I never had a manager!

Then it's you, your manager?
Euhhh ... (At this point, a providential knock-knock on the door. Who?-Oh, Ricky! Come in, come in, come on! Hey Ricky, he wants to know 'Dream Sequence', he finds it frankly hippie! I told him to listen to the Kinks and the Beatles ...)
Ricky: Whaaaaa, right! Peace man, peace! Do you have a fag? That's why I came, in fact! (Kim fumbles in her makeup bag, large mirrors are illuminated from dozens of vials of her all white studio, and discovers a packet of Peter that someone left lying among the lipsticks.
Kim: Did you see the class, necklaces? It's Gary Glitter to death, right? (Gary Glitter: figurehead of the 'decadent rock' or 'glam rock' 70s, well known for his designer suits and other garments spangled glitter of light.)

In fact, your two French concerts went well?
Lyon, yes. In Paris we had some technical difficulties, and then I probably had some problems too, I think. I don't like the halls that are too big. I prefer the Olympia to the Baltard. I think next time we will try to tour in smaller venues, which is very difficult to do when thousands of people want to see you live.

And you, Ricky, you no longer come on stage with your sister?
I did that for the first round, but I quickly became homesick once on the road. And I prefer to stay home. I produce stuff, I write for others, I do a lot of things. For the second tour I dropped it. I did the first three or four gigs and then I broke.

In Paris, you were in the console-sound, anyway.
It was a new group, I had a little monitor what was happening on stage! (Re-knock-knock at the door, not that one angel at all, it means that the driver fulminates and that Kim should take haste to Platine 45. This is almost the end of the interview.)

Other concerts coming up?
No, nothing planned.

The program this spring, quick!
Have to finish the album.
Ricky: Yeah, finish the album ...
It's already six or seven songs, man. And now we have our own studio, Select Sound Recording Studios, in Knebworth. One of the best 24 tracks from England!
Ricky: At the forefront of progress!

The team remains the same for this one? The Familie, the complete kit?
(Shy) Yes, but I started to write ...

What, and it will be in the album??
A little patience, mate! You'll see it in two months! It'll be killer!