Would you be up for getting it on with another woman? Would you go as far as they’d ask you to? There’s some intense lesbian sex on that show. So this would be a way for me to channel my inner Ellen. My lesbian crush would be Ellen (DeGeneres). If I were to play a lesbian, they could see me as an actress: “Oh, maybe the bitch can act!” And every girl has her lesbian crush. When people see me, Toni, as a performer, they see something completely different. Why the interest in playing a lesbian character? I got a call (recently) that said, “We’re working on it.” We believe they’re taping in March, so we’ll see. My agent is working on that for me as we speak. You’ve been very passionate about wanting a lesbian role on “Orange is the New Black.” Where’s that at? Why am I singing it? And it turned out to be a big urban song for me. I love “Another Sad Love Song.” But of all the songs that I ever recorded with him, I love them all except for “Seven Whole Days.” Hated it. “Breathe Again” is my favorite song to sing. Looking back at some of the songs you did with Babyface, which stand out most to you? I have breasts now and everything.” (Laughs) You’re an artist now and it’s sometimes hard for a brother to accept that his sister is growing up.” I said, “I know, Kenny. Later on he said, “You know, Toni, I have to give you credit. We argued a bit – not bad-argued, but we just had creative differences. We talked about it and it took a second for him to understand. The first couple of months we struggled because I’m his artist and he kind of developed me, so his artist grew up and I have my own opinions, my own thoughts, my own philosophies, my own judgments and my own career. Working together was actually tough at first. So these recording sessions must have felt nostalgic for you and him. But whenever we’re together, he is the one I’m most comfortable and creative with, and I feel home. He didn’t write “Un-Break My Heart,” he didn’t write or produce “He Wasn’t Man Enough,” but I was still on his label so he still fostered my career. And he’s given me great songs in my career but not the biggest songs in my career, which is really odd. He helped develop my sound, and so I’m more comfortable with him than any other producer I’ve worked with. Kenny Babyface helped make my dreams come true. How does “Love, Marriage & Divorce” compare to the work you and Babyface did in the ’90s? We’re kind of like Elliot Stabler (and Olivia Benson) on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” You want them to get together, there’s a bit of attraction, but we’ve never crossed the line. (Laughs) Well, we really aren’t brother and sister, so it wouldn’t be incest! But I call him my “musical husband” and we are married, but just musically. So then with “Sweat,” a song off the new album, is it weird to sing about makeup sex with your “brother”? But it’s like having a crush on your cousin and you realize, “Maybe I shouldn’t have a crush on my cousin. I was the girl who was like, “I’ll never have a chance with him,” and from there we just became brother and sister. Very quickly he became my big brother when we started working together. I’ve been in love with him since he was in (’80s R&B group) The Deele.
How do you make a love album with an attractive, talented man like Babyface and not fall in love? I’ll be 85 years old singing at the Cafe Carlyle like Eartha Kitt. Sometimes you just need friends and family to rally around you and let you know it’s gonna be OK. I think everybody goes through that, but I didn’t realize, I guess, just how sad I was at that time – and friends like Babyface, Missy Elliott, Fantasia and Anita Baker helped talk me out of that state. Obviously not weed, because I would’ve still stayed in the business! (Laughs) You know what, I was just in a sad space in my life. What were you smoking when you said you were gonna give up on music? I am so glad he wasn’t about to let you throw in the towel. The two most notably collaborated on her self-titled debut, the singer’s mega-selling caper that scored her a Grammy for Best New Artist in 1994.īraxton was candid as ever in our recent chat, talking about why she told Babyface that she’s a grown woman (“I have breasts now”), her desire to have a lesbian experience and how short hair put her back in touch with her roots.įirst of all, thank god for Babyface. 4), her first album since 2010’s “Pulse,” brings Braxton back together with Babyface. Luckily, he changed her mind, and hearts everywhere were unbroken. “I have a bit of a cold,” she says, her voice doing that sexy-low thing it does when she sings, “so yeah, it’s very Bea Arthur from ‘The Golden Girls.'”Ī little cold can’t stop Braxton, who’s already faced bankruptcy, is managing lupus and then, before friend/producer Babyface intervened, almost retired from the music business altogether.
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