The Daily Swarm

GayWired:

For their new album, the legendary ladies of Labelle plan to continue pushing boundaries and making history. So far they’ve teamed up to record three tracks produced by popular rocker Lenny Kravitz, with whom they expect to make more music. They are also laying down tracks with legendary Philly soul producer Kenny Gamble.

While their new music promises to challenge the conscience, don’t expect Labelle’s latest offering to be quite as racy or titillating as their earlier work. And don’t look for their stage performances to involve Patti descending from the ceiling with 20 foot wide silver wings.

After all, they’re no longer wide-eyed young girls.

Nona: “It’s kinda difficult to say we’d like to be just as revolutionary now because we’re really at a different time in our lives. But we’d still love to give a real show to people. We’ll see how that’s going to come about. We’re going to have to work with people and see how we can present ourselves so that we don’t look like we’re trying to be Destiny’s Child when we’re actually Destiny’s grandmothers. We have to make sure that we’re doing things that are age-appropriate, that show the feminine side of us… the women that we are [and] the messages that we want to bring. Pat does that anyway in what she does today and I think Sarah and I do that but you know Pat, because she is who she is, has continued her shows and has brought that kind of performance to an audience. We’ll see what happens as we go along. We’ll see what we’ll create.”