Roisin Murphy - video diary.

Sometime last week I think, Diary of Mu posted this video-diary by Roisin Murphy. The video features insightful narration by Roisin herself, as you watch various clips of her cavorting around. At parts near the end, she’s going quite wonderfully cray-cray while DJing at a club in Istanbul. Roisin gives us some great insight regarding her thoughts on the music industry, and herself as an artist. My favorite part is when she says:

“At the moment I’m feeling pressed from the pressure that’s begun to build in me, because I took a lot of time of when I had my baby. Now I’m beginning to feel ready to do something, make a body of work again, an album I suppose. So pressure is building at the moment and I’ve begun that project, and it took me a minute, you know to actually be ready to be that creative again. It sounds ridiculous but when your an artist, it doesn’t mater what your doing in your life, or what’s going on, you do have to remind yourself quite regularly that you are an artist. You sort of almost have to go ‘I’m an artist, I’m an artist, I’m an artist, I’m an artist’ because if I forget that, well I think I just forget myself. Also, it’s a luxury to be allowed to be an artist. It would be a terrible thing to turn my back on it, the fact that people want me to be is an incredible luxury, and I’ve had some very difficult times in the last year. I’ve realized that when I write my songs I have to put who I am into them now, because I am older and I guess when I was writing ‘Overpowered’ I was writing stories and really learning how to be a prolific song writer, to write a song when I needed to, in any given situation. Now the music that I’m writing, I’m really reaching inside, into the depths of me, and pulling it out and putting it in front of people. So I’m in quite vulnerable position with that, but I think it will be alright.”

YES YES YES. Bring it Roisin!! Although nothing is really revealed that we didn’t already know, because I think all her fans knew that after enough “baby-time” she would eventually return, and I believe, will release the best album of her career so far. It’s just nice to hear it from her own lips, and to hear that she is indeed fully committed to an album. Maybe mid-way through 2012 it will get a release, about a year from now? We’ll see.