She says she is extremely nervous about releasing an album. She has a reputation as a savvy operator who art-directs and copyrights her own photoshoots and performances and вЂњowns a lot of intellectual propertyвЂќ. Von Teese is softly spoken, more reserved and noticeably less given to flights of philosophical fancy. ItвЂ™s like the life, yes? Something complicated.вЂќ So itвЂ™s never totally sad, itвЂ™s never totally happy. ItвЂ™s true, no? Also, I like paradoxes, so when the lyrics are happy, the notes are sad, and when the lyrics are sad, the notes are happy. Composing the music, I was dreaming of Dita, a Dita of the stars. And I try to do the music of this ballet through Dita. вЂњItвЂ™s like in the universe, in space, you have the planet, and it moves around the star, no? It creates a kind of ballet. When I ask about the songs on Dita Von Teese, the album the pair have made together вЂ“ Tellier and his wife, Amandine de la RichardiГЁre, are responsible for the music and lyrics вЂ“ he tells me they are about вЂњattraction and desireвЂќ, and then starts talking about the cosmos. His voluble answers to questions tend towards the metaphysical. вЂњAh, Diteuuuuur! Beautiful! So beautiful!вЂќ he cries on arrival, in lieu of the more traditional вЂњhelloвЂќ. I donвЂ™t think he is, but, nevertheless, were he any more French he would probably nip out in the middle of the interview to have an affair with my wife: he makes the philosophising maГ®tre dвЂ™ on First Dates look like Eric Bristow. Tellier, on the other hand, is so extraordinarily Gallic I wonder if he isnвЂ™t putting it on a bit, in the same way that the late Serge Gainsbourg was fond of cranking up the hon-he-hon for his own amusement if a British journalist was in earshot. She exudes a very US kind of retro glamour, and talks about her transformation from Heather Sweet, a blond, machinistвЂ™s daughter from Michigan, into the worldвЂ™s best-known burlesque star in terms of the American dream: вЂњLike the big Hollywood makeover, a girl would come from a Midwestern town and sheвЂ™d look like an ordinary girl, and then suddenly sheвЂ™d be otherworldly вЂ“ I wanted to do that in real life.вЂќ He is the picture of bohemian dishevelment: wild beard, straggly hair, a large glass of wine in one hand and packet of fags and a lighter in the other. She is immaculately turned out and looks, well, exactly like Dita Von Teese, from her perfectly coiffed jet-black hair to her seamed stockings and high heels. S eated together in an upscale London bar, Dita Von Teese and SГ©bastien Tellier are a study in contrasts.

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