Reuniting with her Gossip bandmates after 12 years apart, Ditto’s new album “Real Power” is a return to their roots.
I’m ready to ask Beth Ditto a question, but first, she has a few for me. “I genuinely love doing interviews,” she says over Zoom from her home in Portland, Oregon, with visible glee. “I just like talking to people. Interviews can be difficult, though, because you only have an hour, and I want to ask questions about where you are and what you’re doing. Like, genuinely, that’s my favorite part! Where in London are you right now?” Ditto hesitates.
It’s always so scatterbrained. And I think had we planned to make a record, it wouldn’t have worked out. It had to happen like this, or it wouldn’t have happened at all. We never want to be told what to do. And I don’t like expectations. It was just happenstance. That’s a great word, isn’t it? Happenstance…” Just as striking as the music on Real Power is the visual world that surrounds it.
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