You put so much time into something and it's like, why didn't someone say anything from the beginning? Why did y'all let me spiral?" "Honestly, not until the album was almost done. " Sunday Love was, I think, the most difficult because they thought the album was too dark and that I didn't know who I was," she says. "Sometimes those moments are difficult because it's like, how am I going to compete when you're so different or don't fit into a category?"Īs confident as Dobson felt about the album's direction, she says her label wasn't on the same page, and had difficulty getting on board with an LP named after her mother's former stripper alter-ego. "I was this Black girl coming on the scene with a curly ponytail, I knew I didn't look like anybody else that was in the genre," she says. It was all encouraging, she says, to be making an album in the label system as opposed to shaping Fefe Dobson with only two other songwriters: Prozzäk's James Bryan McCollum and Jay Levine - especially since her place in the industry never felt like a guarantee. The original cover art for Dobson's 'Sunday Love.' She also "got some tips and advice" from Courtney Love after bumping into her on a shopping trip (she later crafted the song "Hole" as "an ode to her band"), and even tested her songwriting prowess in unfinished sessions with Cyndi Lauper and Joan Jett. She began sessions with Veruca Salt's Nina Gordon, Holly Knight (Tina Turner, Pat Benatar), Pharrell, and more, with the goal of edging up "the other side" of herself as an artist that fans didn't get to see on her first set. I wanted to be vulnerable and exposed."ĭobson wanted her sophomore album to reflect her "rock roots" and the turmoil she felt amid her breakup, so she asked her label, Island Def Jam, to facilitate collaborations that fit the mood. I was at a point in my life where I wanted to let everything show. "I was going through a crappy relationship. "I'd chopped all my hair off," she recalls, chuckling. 87 on the Billboard Hot 100, Dobson entered a transitional phase both emotionally and artistically, which cast a dark lyrical shadow over the sassy, rollicking rock chick image she'd honed on her first album. After her debut album racked up over 300,000 in domestic sales and launched "Take Me Away" at No.
But, 15 years later, the now-36-year-old says that behind-the-scenes chaos and disputes with her label eventually derailed her planned (and ultimately canceled) major label follow-up, Sunday Love, from becoming the magnum opus it was meant to be.Īt the time, you could tell just by looking at her that Dobson was going through it as she readied her next musical venture.
It's here that a promising wave of success ignited by an eponymous 2003 debut (and its TRL-backed, radio-friendly, pop-rocking hits "Take Me Away" and "Everything") positioned 19-year-old Canadian rocker Fefe Dobson to soar from MTV darling to global superstar.
Hot Topic Goths War of the Early Aughts™. Avril Lavigne is at her prime, Kelly Clarkson has rebranded as a femme-punk princess, and high schools around the country have become key battlegrounds in The Great Preps vs. | CREDIT: MATHEW GUIDO FOR SPOKE ENTERTAINMENT INC. "Sunday Love was, I think, the most difficult because they thought the album was too dark and that I didn't know who I was," says Fefe Dobson, of her previously shelved 2006 album.
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