So when I started, I tried to mimic the original mix and found out two things: One, it didn’t work and two, I couldn’t do it. Krys: I’m a big fan of the original record, and the engineering and production that Roger Bechirian and Nick Lowe did. If you accept that and go along for the ride, you find some wonderful music – things like ‘Painted From Memory’ and ‘The Juliet Letters.’ You managed to make it sound like Elvis and the Attractions are playing with the new singers in real-time. ![]() If you know any of Elvis’ work, you know that he doesn’t always do what you want him to do as an audience member. But I thought it was a crazy enough idea that it just might work. I want to redo ‘This Year’s Model,’ take my voice out and put new singers in, and I want to do it all in Spanish.” I just looked at my phone for about 15 seconds and tried to process that. Krys: He just called up and said “I have this idea I want to do. How was the idea of Spanish Model originally presented to you? We caught up with both Costello and Krys about the original, groundbreaking 1978 album and how Spanish Model came together. Each was given free rein to rework melodies and rewrite lyrics, but the attitude of the original proves universal. He and producer Sebastian Krys, a recent Costello collaborator and multiple Latin Grammy winner, have enlisted a dream team of Spanish-singing artists – among them, Chilean pop star Cami, Argentina’s Fito Páez, and Colombia’s Juanes – to sing over the original tracks. What Costello’s done with the new Spanish Modelis pretty much unprecedented – the first time an artist has overseen a rework of their own album, using the original backing tracks, in a different language. ![]() So why not mess with it over 40 years later? ![]() In its original form, 1978’s This Year’s Model was The Attractions’ debut as a band, the source of many Costello classics, a well of lyrical venom, and a New-Wave landmark. ![]() So of course, Elvis Costellowent ahead and did it. Reworking a long-beloved album is one of those things that artists just aren’t supposed to do.
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