'The Best Little Secrets Are Kept'. Stimmt nicht! FM4 hat Louis XIV in New York aufgestöbert. Lesen Sie exklusiv das erste Interview mit dem Sonnenkönig seit seinem offiziellen Ableben im Jahr Jahr 1715.
Wo bleibt Colbert?
Wir haben den King enttarnt. In einem riesen Hotel-Restaurant am Times Square in New York. Nein, nicht Elvis. Der arbeitet bekanntlich als Buletten-Bruzler bei Burger King. Wir meinen einen viel älteren Herrscher, den so genannten Sonnenkönig. Und wenn jetzt einige fortgeschrittene Semester an den späten Bruno Kreisky denken mögen, dann sei auch dieser Verdacht ausgeräumt. Es geht um den mächtigsten Monarchen des merkantilen Absolutismus, den Erbauer Versailles, den Glamrocker unter den royalen Despoten.
Ich treffe seine Majestät zur Mittagszeit. Louis XIV hat eine orgiastische Nacht hinter sich und sieht aus wie Ozzy Osbourne zur Zeit dessen Urin-Trink-Duells mit Vince Neil von Mötley Crüe. Also voll der Adel Mann! Er hat sich mit dem bürgerlichen Namen Jason Hill getarnt und mir eine Audienz in besagtem Hotel am Times Square gewährt. Bescheiden bürgerlich löffelt der Monarch eine Schwammerl-Suppe. Diese dürfte allerdings mit Pilzen der sinnvernebelnden Sorte angereichert gewesen sein, wie die folgenden Auszüge aus dem Interview belegen. Lesen Sie also, warum Louis XIV auch noch im Jahr 2005 den absoluten Herrschaftsanspruch stellt, was der Monarch unter Aufklärung am königlichen Hof versteht und von der Prüderie der Vereinigten Staaten hält und warum es toll ist, in der eigenen Lieblingsband zu spielen...This is royal, not Spinal Tab.
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Moi: So tell me about your band, sounds very - ahm - royal to me...
Louis XIV: It's really just the name. It's like Led Zeppelin doesn't have much to do with ballons but they are a Rock & Roll band. The same way Louis XIV is a Rock & Roll band. We are just a very unique band. I think nobody sounds like us at the moment; or ever. Our first record we made, we recorded in France. It was a concept-album that had a little more to do with the name Louis XIV. But our new record is a more sexually driven record. It's different in all ways. Everything is not intended to be sort of royal in a way. In fact I usually try to shy away people from things like that. Because we are only a Rock & Roll band. It's sort of you try to say: "Smashing Pumpkins? Do they have anything to do with pumpkins patches or so?" I don't think so!. Or: "Led Zeppelin? Have they anything to do with big ballons flying in the air?" I mean Jimmy Page is Jimmy Page and has nothing to do with ballons, you know.
Moi: But I think it matches your image perfectly, the webpage and everything. It's a little bit noble...
Louis XIV: Oh I agree it is! Without question! There is a little bit of it and I do love it! I love the name actually, I think it is fantastic and there is a certain element of it. My point was just that it is not onesided. There's many layers of the group and the focus isn't just all about...I mean we have a certain era about us, a certain thing about us, that we think is grandeur and more glorious than everything out there. Yes! From that standpoint it does fit.
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Moi: You mentioned before that your new album is "sexually driven". What is your point about that?
Louis XIV: There's two things I'm passionate about in life. And that's music, creating things, and girls. I have a tremendous affection for both. And my focus is very narrowly on those things. It is a very sexually driven album because you don't hear that in Rock & Roll, you know, at all, I mean at least anymore. You might have heard traces of it with the Rolling Stones back in the late 60ies or T.Rex. But even with T.Rex. He hid it a little bit more than we do. We are more sort of forward in how we interact lyrically. I and Brian: we wrote just about what was going on in our lives. And that involves girls and girls on the side. That sort of thing in all sorts of...that web of life that's we and that is very sexual driven. That things that you don't hear that much in Rock. That's what we wanted to write about. And it's not put on, it's real! It's very sexually driven. It's a groove oriented record in terms of...everything starts with a beat in terms of "it's very important". I produced and engineered everything by myself. Everything is extremly important and very focused and very direct.
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Moi: In Europe sexuality is a topic more open to discussion. The States are more prude...
Louis XIV: Yeah! And that's the thing! Even with the cover of our record, there is nudity on it! I wrote on a girl's back! In America you can go down the street to your local mega department store and you can buy an album by 50 Cent that has him holding a gun on the cover. And then you can buy that same gun in the same store. It's rediculous that you can do that but people might complain about nudity on the cover of an album - which we had. That was one of the content of the album we talk about! But that's just America, for good or for bad. I think that's sort of bad. That's one of the doors we want to force open in America. This odd repression of sex. We were just writing an album about what we wanted to write about. You know, it wasn't contrived in any way, but there are this things in America that don't make sense to me. 50 Cent can be pointing a gun on the cover of his record, but people complain about little skin or little talk about sex and things like that. But our album is just very unique. We just wanted to make an album that we like so we can be our own favourite band. And we try to do something artistic!
ähm - Aufklärung am Hofe von Ludwig XIV - 'The Best Little Secrets Are Kept'...
Das Louis XIV Debüt-Album 'The Best Little Secrets Are Kept' ist soeben auf Warner-Music erschienen.
New York | 23.11.2005 | 18:49 
