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自去年暑假Colbie發行第三張專輯《All of You》，
難得才相隔一年又決定出新專輯。
(目前Colbie的專輯都是相隔兩年發行，2007《CoCo》、2009《Breakthrough》、2011《All of You》)
這次Colbie也加入發行節慶類專輯(通常都是出聖誕節歌曲專輯)，
但是她的專輯將會和其他歌手的聖誕專輯有些微的不同!
Colbie Caillat Announces 'Christmas in the Sand': Exclusive Album Art
Colbie Caillat says her upcoming holiday album is for the folks who don't celebrate a traditional kind of Christmas. "I was like, 'Not everyone lives in the snow or cold places for Christmas', so why don't we write some songs for them to be able to relate to what their Christmas is like," Caillat, who releases "Christmas in the Sand" on Oct. 23, tells Billboard exclusively.
The set includes five originals and 10 holiday standards, as well as guest appearances by Brad Paisley on a rocking "Merry Christmas Baby" and Gavin DeGraw, who ad libs his way through what Caillat calls a "hilarious" version of "Baby It's Cold Outside." The album was produced by Caillat's Grammy Award-winning father, Ken Caillat.
Fittingly, Caillat recorded "Christmas in the Sand" "in my bathing suit in the sunshine in southern California in the summertime...between takes of going swimming with my mom and our dogs." The album, she says had been broached by her label in the past, but with six months off at the beginning of this year she felt like it was "a perfect time to put my focus and attention on it and decide how many songs I wanted, which songs and to write songs for it."
"A lot of the songs I wrote for it are about how not every (winter) holiday I spent has been only in the snow," Caillat explains. "It's also been in the sun and at the beach and a different kind of lifestyle (that) not everyone has. I wanted to tap into that. It's fun to write a Christmas song from that perspective." She taps into that particularly on the title track and first single, which she says is "about sitting on the beach drinking your cocoa -- and that could be hot cocoa or coconut water -- and Santa Clause is on a surfboard and walks up the beach and hands you a present, and his reindeer are playing with you in the sand. It's just, like, the tongue-in-cheek side of it."
She wrote the love song "Everyday is Christmas" with Jason Reeves and Kara DioGuardi, while "Mistletoe," composed with Stacy Blue and Mikal Blue, dates back a couple of years. And "Happy Christmas," a co-write with Toby Gad, recalls traditional, snowy Christmases at Caillat's grandparents' home in Lake Tahoe. "I've experienced that typical kind of Christmas as well, so I wanted to write a little bit of both sides," Caillat says.
To promote "Christmas in the Sand" Caillat is planning a number of TV appearances as well as a week's worth of special, "stripped down" holiday shows at the end of November and beginning of December. Meanwhile, she's also starting to work on her fourth album, the follow-up to 2011's Top 10 "All of You," which launched the Adult Contemporary hits "I Do" and "Brighter Than the Sun."
"I'm already starting to write for the next record," says Caillat, who's also formed a production company with Reeves and Mikal Blue called CocoBlueJay to discover and develop new artists. "Like I do for every record I'll write a bunch of songs and then it comes to narrowing it down and deciding which songs are gonnna have to stay off the record. I don't know when it's going to come out, so it's not a rush thing. I'm just going to take my time on it."
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蔻比凱蕾將發行的節慶專輯，是專門為那些通常不慶祝傳統聖誕節的人們。“我就像"那些住在沒下雪或不會很冷的地方過聖誕節的人們"，所以我就想為何不寫些適合這些人們的歌?”蔻比獨家透漏給告示牌。她即將在10月23日發行"Christmas in the Sand"。
這張特輯將收錄5首原創歌曲和10首傳統聖誕歌曲，內包括與客串合作嘉賓Brad Paisley的搖滾歌曲"Merry Christmas Baby"(聖誕快樂寶貝)，與Gavin DeGraw即興創作"熱鬧版本"的"Baby It's Cold Outside"(寶貝，外面寒冷)。這張專輯將由蔻比的葛萊美獎得主老爸肯凱雷製作。
恰巧蔻比在"Christmas in the Sand" 記錄道“我在夏天穿著泳衣享受著南加州溫暖的陽光...在與我媽和狗兒們游泳時之間”。這張專輯是她之前與唱片公司討論過後做出的決定。但在今年初開始的六個月她覺得“這是一個完美的時刻，將我所有的焦點和專注力集中在專輯上，然後我決定要放多少首歌、什麼歌、該寫些什麼歌?”
“我大部分寫的歌曲都是有關我怎麼過冬天(並不是都是下雪的日子)的節日”蔻比解釋。“我通常過著與一般人不同的節日慶祝型態，在這種節日也可以是在大太陽或是海灘度過。透過這種角度去寫聖誕歌曲是件有趣的事。”她特別提到主打歌和首支單曲，"關於你坐在海灘上喝著可可 ─ 也可能會是熱可可或是椰子水 ─ 然後聖誕老人乘著衝浪板而來，然後在海灘上分送禮物，而聖誕老人的麋鹿們會與你們一起玩耍。這就像開玩笑一樣。"
他還和合作多次的好朋友Jason Reeves以及Kara DioGuardi寫了一首情歌"Everyday is Christmas"(每天都是聖誕節)，一至兩年前由Stacy Blue和Mikal Blue作曲的"Mistletoe"(槲寄生)。與Toby Gad共同合寫的 "Happy Christmas"(快樂過聖誕)，則是回顧蔻比在太浩湖祖父母家度過傳統白雪皚皚的聖誕節。“我也曾經度過那種典型的聖誕節，所以除了寫不同於以往的聖誕節，也寫了一些傳統的聖誕節。”蔻比說。
為了宣傳新專輯"Christmas in the Sand"，蔻比計畫在特別的星期參與一些電視節目，這項計畫將會在11月與12月執行。同時，蔻比也在為第四張專輯做準備，而2011年發行的第三張專輯《All of You》中，"I Do"和"Brighter Than the Sun"入選到成人抒情榜Top10。
“我早已開始為新專輯寫歌”，蔻比說。同時還和好友Jason Reeves、Mikal Blue創立一個創作公司叫"CocoBlueJay"(Colbie Caillat+Mikal Blue+Jason Reeves的暱稱縮寫)，去發掘或培育新人。“就像我每次為新專輯寫了一堆歌，但最後必須在裡面挑出我決定要收錄的少部分歌曲。我不知道什麼時後才能完成，所以不會趕著把這工作做完，我只要花時間在上面就可以了!”
梅西 發表於 2012.09
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