Last year was a strange one for Goldfrapp. The duo's album Supernature yielded a string of international dance hits, a world tour, and serious bank from licensing agreements with Target, Coke, and roughly half the Fortune 500. Clearly, it was time to change their tune. On their new album, Seventh Tree, Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory ditch the icy vocals and sex-soaked beats that earned them a pair of Grammy nominations in favor of a surprisingly sunny new sound. In the March issue of Radar, they reflect on going soft, Britney Spears, and their loathing of journalists.

On the changing things up on their new album: "From our last album, Felt Mountain, to Black Cherry, there was a real about face as well. My hope is that our fans have come to expect that from us at this point or at least that's what we tell ourselves.'"

On questions about Alison Goldfrapp's age: "After we finished the tour, we went to this big industry to-do with loads of famous people, and they all kept asking me how old I was! It was really rude. Was it because they wanted to have sex with me, or because I looked too old to be at the party? Never did get to the bottom of that one."

On the messy public lives of Amy Winehouse and Britney Spears: "Well, that's the world we live in now. There's this absolute obsession with can't-look-away, car-crash TV, which is what we wrote our new song "Clowns" about. Watching these people come apart appeals to our darkest nature. Both of these girls are quite young, and neither has had much life yet, so they don't know any better." - mag's website

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