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• INTERVIEWS
 
• INTERVIEWS - MUSIC

Tiffany – A Million Miles

By starrymag | April 5, 2016

By: Lisa Steinberg

Q) What are the recent projects that you have been working on?

A) There is a lot of touring this year. I’m actually branching out. My son graduated college last summer so I feel like I can branch out and do more international touring. I haven’t done that in quite some time so I’m back in the mode. I want to get the new music out there. So, the sky is the limit at this point. I’m in talks to do some movies, but it would really depend on time. I would love to do more movies and acting, but for me this next year is going to be all about music and being on the road. I’m just taking this new music to the next level for me. I’m really excited because a lot of festivals are calling me for the retro stuff, which is always a blast because I get to see fans and relive “I Think We’re Alone Now” and “Could Have Been.” There are so many fans on the bill that I’m a fan of so I just get to be out there rocking and listening to other people that I know. It’s a chance to reconnect and hang out with my buddies. Then, there are some smaller locations that connect the dots for the opportunity to promote this album. I can do more intimate evening things for Tiffany where this album will really fit. This is a big production album. There are a lot of layers to this album. We went a bit old school to some degree, but I think a lot of my early recordings like All This Time or To Love or Not to Love had a lot of piano, guitar, vocals, backgrounds and strings here or there. I’ve always loved stuff like that – kind of epic songs. I really though wanted to push the boat out on this one and do stuff with this album. I’m a co-producer on this album so I came in with a lot of ideas and got a lot of my wish list so I’m a very happy girl that they all came true. Working with my cowriters and co-producer was so much fun to create music that I love and having a good time doing it.

Q) Talk about your cowriters on the album A Million Miles and how you came to work with them. What did they bring to the table?

A) It all came pretty organic, to some degree. I live in Nashville so I pride myself for the last eight years living here. When I came back here is when I really decided I wanted to be a songwriter. I came here in the early 90’s and just went to songwriting appointments to get a gist of what that really entailed. I was always writing songs, but I was too shy to show them to anyone. And I had kind of started to write in LA, but when I moved in Nashville and threw that out there people said, “If you want to be a songwriter this is what you need to do.” So, I put myself into that world and it took me a while to get better to be what Nashville looks to their standards as being a valid songwriter. So, coming back this time, moving here eight years ago and now having more under my belt by writing The Color of Silence – having Billboard saying it was one of the best albums of 2000 and how people responded to me as a songwriter gave me the courage and my legs that I needed to go, “Okay, this is my life. This is what I do. I’m a valid songwriter and want to write for other people. I want to continue to do that and have that be a part of my career.” So, my return to Nashville has been about that. It’s been writing for other people and living in the songwriting community. I built friendships and relationships there. When I decided to do this record, I reached out to those people – people who know me really well, understand me and understand the last few years of my life. I lost my dad to cancer and my mom recently last year. It’s just all the ups and downs and how it affected me and how people pulled together as a community and helped me. Music is healing and that is kind of what we started to do. I had a lot of melodies already in my head and a lot of titles. So, I just kind of took songs to people who I knew would get it and wanted to create something great with them. They didn’t let me down! Not all of the songs are about heartbreak or recovery. Some of the songs are about getting over somebody and someone that did you wrong – regular topics that we all go through, but with my own spin on them.

Q) What makes this album different than the others you have released?

A) I think there are more layers to this record than maybe some of my other records. And there is beautiful strings and cello. It’s a little deeper than I have probably done before. It comes from a place of me being honest win my lyrics and I wanted some of that timeless music in some of my ballads where you think “This is beautiful.” Some of the up-tempo stuff obviously has some of my rocker heart into it, but it is still pop/AC. The single “Right Here” is about my fans, but it could be about your lover or your best friend – who ever encourages you on a daily basis that has been there form the beginning. For me, that is my fans. That they allow me to and respect my transitions – the things I want to get up to. Sometimes I do a dance album and sometimes I want to do a country project. I love telling stories about my life and the different layers of my life, what inspires me and makes the overall Tiffany journey. I’m lucky that the fans are willing to ride the ride with me, do a sci-fi film with me or if I take some time off. There are times when I want to recharge, not tour as much and stay home to be in the moment of life. I’m very lucky that my fans are open to that. They keep coming back and understand it. I think it makes me a better artist because it allows me to be myself – whatever that is at that moment. I’ve always been a pop artist, but there are different sides to me and I’m lucky that my fans continue to let me grow with that.

Q) How has social media been an asset to you and your music?

A) On this album, it has been the best thing. I was always plugged into social media, but kind of a latecomer to that. When I decided to merge with Pledge, that was the one thing they brought. They encouraged me to join social media and I thought it would be good for me because it would light a fire under me and it would also be an avenue for my fans to be a part of this album from the very beginning. And I loved that! I loved that concept. From videos, to the studio and they could pledge to be a part of the albumand come into the studio while I was recording. There were all these layers to be a part of the album and that was something that I had never done before. My fans will get it. They love to be a part of things. I am the girl with the mall tour where it was so personable where I would love to keep that going and this was a way to have that to some degree. I could tell my thoughts and show some songs that I have written at the end of the day. It was really cool and it kept giving me the thoughts of my fans! It gave me that interaction right off the bat so I’m kind of addicted now! [laughs]

Q) Are we able to see videos for the songs?

A) If you go to Pledge Music, they are all uploaded there now. If you go to my website,tiffanytunes.com then it takes you to Pledge Music. My campaign is ending in June, but there are still so many different levels at which you can get involved. There is also different merchandise attached to this project that won’t be attached after June. You can see me out on the road and have a VIP experiences that will be different when I start touring back in June. There are still handwritten notes and pictures from behind the scenes. There’s a coffee book and a music book that I’m offering for this album that you would only get during this time. If you are a Tiffany fan, I always encourage people to go to the site and see what is there to get these memorabilia because it is only going to be during this time.

Q) What do you want to be sure to share with fans about this album?

A) Again, this is an honest project for me, the next level. I coproduced it so I’m very excited about that. It’s like the next level of me growing up and me growing as an artist. I’m going to be touring so extensively this year with this album so I encourage people to go to my site and check out all the live dates. As good as this album is (and I love it and it is great) but I am a live artist. I think that’s where I am at my best. So, I can’t wait for people to hear it and do shows around it to have those moments with my fans. I think that’s where the magic really lies and these songs are going to be a great base to do that and to bring to a live venue.

taken from: http://starrymag.com/?p=9575

THE BLOG

A Million Miles with Tiffany

 04/20/2016 03:05 pm ET

For children of the 80s and 90s, the name Tiffany conjures up images of denim jackets, fiery red hair, and bubble gum pop, but there’s much more to the mall-tour princess than most people remember.
At the age of 16 Tiffany became one of the youngest female artist in history to have a number one album on the Billboard charts, as well as back-to-back number one singles. Though her road from shopping mall super-stardom has had its share of pitfalls, she has always managed to pick herself up and keep walking, and that perseverance has led her to the release of her 9th studio album, aptly titled A Million Miles.
The project started after she received a call from Pledge Music. “It’s really taking me to the next level of connecting with my fans,” she states. “It’s been really cool to have everyone behind the scenes with me from the very beginning. It’s allowed me to get more comfortable and break down those expectations of ‘Oh I have to be in full make up and I have to look great, and it has to look like a big studio’ in favor of what’s really important: it just has to look real.”
And real is exactly what A Million Miles is. It’s her story.
“I’m very proud of I Think We’re Alone Now,” Tiffany says of her first number one hit, “but as I have progressed in the industry there’ve always been things I’ve wanted to say. I wanted to write music at 16 and 17, but no one encouraged me, so for a long time I just put that on the back burner. Now that I’ve pulled that back and started writing, I’ve had to learn to trust my musician friends, band members, and people close to me with my moments of failure or saying something stupid. I really credit them with being patient with me. I still have a lot to learn, but I’m excited to be here and I feel like I really have something to bring to the table.”
Of the album’s 10 tracks, Tiffany co-wrote on all but Daddy’s Girl, written by Bridget Tatum and Heather Little. “Bridget is a wonderful person and a great girl to be around,” Tiffany says of her friend. “She would sing Daddy’s Girl in her shows and it would bring me to tears every time.”
Fall Again is a very personal track about watching someone close to her battle addiction. “It was the first writing session I had with Dana and Judd,” she recalls. “It was pretty heavy, but I wanted to write about the experience of watching my cousin, who was a good woman, getting stuck. It really became a romance for her, thinking about alcohol. Watching it, it’s hard. There’s a lot of pain there and it’s common. People have a tendency to say ‘Oh, they did it to themselves,’ and while you can’t help someone who doesn’t want to help themselves, it doesn’t make it any less sad.”
The album’s title track, A Million Miles. which she co-wrote with Ellen Shipley, is about her cousin as well, “but it’s also about all the great things going on in my life and how, not just my cousin, but so many other people in my life have passed on. I can only hope that they’re looking down and that they are experiencing all these great things with me or comforting me when I need comfort, from heaven above which seems so far. It feels like a million miles away.”
Tears, the album’s final track was co-written with Pam Phillips-Oland and Steve McClintock, both of whom have worked with Tiffany previously. Oland wrote Was it Good For You, which was featured in the film “A Thin Pink Line,” while McClintock worked with Tiffany on her original albums, including her hit All This Time. “It was our first time writing together, back in 2008. He came to Nashville and we wrote this amazing ballad” she recalls. “It didn’t have as much production as the finished product, but I wanted it to have this long ending as the last song, because it was Steven McClintock and he was my beginning.”
However, when they wrote the song, Tiffany really didn’t have a home for it. She’d just come off her Just Me album and then started working on the country album Rose Tattoo, which she says told the story of her beginning. “There’s a whole backstory that people just don’t know about Tiffany,” she laughs. “Yes, George Tobin got me the record deal, but there was so much that went on before I met him. There were so many people that helped me, out of the kindness of their hearts, and if they hadn’t, I never would’ve been at that studio in Burbank. Rose Tattoo was my beginning and a big thank you to them; A Million Miles is my story.”
The album, like Tiffany, is a little pop mixed with county and rock ‘n roll. “This album really is my heart,” Tiffany says. “I took a lot of my friends, who are predominantly country writers, and took them in a pop direction. It’s been really fun to see them transition, too. These songs have a story and a meaning like great country songs, but with a real pop vibe. I hoped to do things that were more meaningful than just a good little tap-your-toe tune, but we didn’t want to over-indulge on the lyrics; sometimes it can be too much. You want to feel good and be validated by the emotion you’re feeling right then, when you put that song on.”
Tiffany and her team started working on the album on December 15th, releasing it on March 31st. There is a full tour scheduled to begin late August 2016, but until then there will be spot dates, album release parties and streaming dates for her people, as well has those looking for a preview. “I’m excited to get on the road,” she says. “I think that’s going to make a big difference - when people can see this live. We have a lot of different polished things for a Tiffany show that I probably really haven’t done since the first couple of tours, but I’m excited and ready for the next step.”
The album can be purchased through Pledge Music: http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/tiffany and On April 22nd Tiffany performs at The Mint in Los Angeles. Tickets can be purchasedhere
Follow Kenyth Mogan on Twitter: www.twitter.com/KenythMogan

Taken from : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kenyth-mogan/a-million-miles-with-tiff_b_9724882.html

Tiffany - "A Million Miles" - FOX 17 Rock & Review

Tiffany knows what you did while listening to her hit song

Mar. 31, 2016 - 6:58 - Throwback Thursday: Pop star Tiffany reflects on 'I Think We're Alone Now' and talks new album 'A Million Miles'

Taken from : http://video.foxnews.com/v/4823743122001/tiffany-knows-what-you-did-while-listening-to-her-hit-song/?#sp=show-clips

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Tiffany - A Million Miles

April 1, 2016

Whenever Tiffany releases a new album, it's like a little holiday that has me jamming to the album on repeat all week. However, the last time Tiffany released an album (2011's Rose Tattoo), I wasn't a stay-at-home dad hoping that my kids could play quietly as I celebrated in the corner of the sofa. Needless to say, a war for my earbuds began as soon as I started listening to Tiffany's latest album, A Million Miles - a war that I lost.

Yes - my 2 year-old son got to listen to the new Tiffany album before I did (when it was over, he looked at me and said, "Done!").

I tried to concentrate on the album throughout the day while giving baths, cleaning toys, playing at the park and making dinner, but everything kept me from being able to dive deep into the new music. It wasn't until everyone was asleep that I could finally give the new album an appreciative listen.

A new Tiffany album guarantees raw emotion and honesty through songwriting - whether reflecting on marriage and a spotlight hiatus on 2000's The Color of Silence; celebrating new love on 2005's Dust Off and Dance; finding comfort in her own songwriting skin with 2007's Just Me; and a return to Nashville and country roots on Rose Tattoo. Each album has reflected where Tiffany is at that point in time and have resonated with listeners because of the singer/songwriter's honesty of life's joys and struggles.  

What sets A Million Miles apart from the others is the sound. After four albums, each dabbling in different sonic landscapes (alt pop/rock, dance, AC, country), Tiffany's sound is a collage of all these mixed with her signature phrasing and melodies - and of course, her powerhouse vocals.  I think that Tiffany really wanted to showcase her voice on this album, and she succeeds, but knowing that she co-produced the album alongside producer, Stephen Leiweke (Michael W. Smith, Ingrid Michaelson) - she also cemented her sound as a songwriter. It's also her strongest set since The Color of Silence.

The album begins with the up-tempo and human catharsis inspiring, 'Cry' that begins with the singer reflecting on dishonesty before splashing into a new-wavy chorus that encourages listeners to let go and move on.  After that, we get into the meat of things and by that, I mean - we get some new classics.

I wish that I could just paste all of the lyrics to 'History,' where Tiffany's growth as a lyricist is completely stunning: It's a battlefield of scars/Outnumbering the stars/Weighing heavy on my heart/Just a ghost of who we are/There was a time we fell in love/And us in love was just enough. And drawing out the note on the last lyric is just icing on the cake. Tell it, Tiffany.

Tiffany experienced a lot of loss in the five years between releasing new music, making grief and loss one of the major lyrical themes of A Million Miles. On the title-track, co-written with Ellen Shipley (Belinda Carlisle's 'Heaven is a Place on Earth') she reflects on life without her late cousin who played a major role in keeping the singer grounded and stable throughout her life. On 'Daddy's Girl,' Tiffany reflects on her relationship with her late father, with lyrics: Well he never tucked me in at night/No 'Goodnight Moon' no lullabies/No 'Don't you let the bedbugs bite'/and I'd lie awake til the morning light/Had I been all lace and curls/His babydoll in a string of pearls/It wouldn't have been such a big old world/If I'd have been a Daddy's Girl. It's a very touching tribute reminiscent of Silence highlight, 'If Only.'

Another theme on A Million Miles is finding peace and comfort in the marriage that she's in with the mid-tempo first single,'Right Here,' where she acknowledges her husband's strong and steady love for her: Safe, cause you know me/Home, when you hold me/Never doubt that you're gonna stay/Love how you love me all the way/You've been right here, right here the whole time/You've been right here, right here by my side/All my ups and downs and tears I've cried/You've been loving me right/You've been loving me right/The whole time.

Tiffany touches back on the past with, "Waking Up for the First Time" realizing that she's been through a lot in her 44 years. She's been a pop star, she lost love, she found love, she raised her son, she lost loved ones - and now that she can step back from those roles, she can finally focus on Tiffany - the person. It's an important song in that it is admirable that after being on her journey, she's been able to stay herself through it all - and keeping with the theme of the album - her family, her friends and her music has helped her to do that.

The album closes with 'Tears,' a heartfelt ballad that cumulates all of the loss she's experienced, whether it's the loss of loved ones or opportunities not taken.  Yet a sense of closure envelopes the song, reminding us that there will be a time when memories can been be looked at with a smile.

 There's a video of Tiffany listening to a playback of the track in the studio where she looks into the camera, a proud smile on her face - as if she's hearing it for the first time - whispering, "I Love It!"

Me too Tiffany. Me too.

Congratulations.



GRADE: A+

'A Million Miles' can be purchased at pledgemusic.com/projects/tiffany or tiffanytunes.com

Taken from :   http://www.postpop.org/mikey/2016/3/30/tiffany-a-million-miles