Fatboy Slim’s attitude towards making music has changed.
In fan Q&A by SunThe “Praise You” musician — whose real name is Norman Cook — has revealed he’s lost his “passion for making music,” 20 years after releasing his last studio album, Palookaville.
“My last two singles just came out live,” said Fatboy Slim, 61. “I did them both just to play on the side.”
He added: “I had songs that no one else had in my set. And it became popular with people when we figured out that we could clean the samples and give them away.”
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Fatboy Slim then talked about how his relationship with music has changed over the years.
“The thing is, you can’t make music unless you’re absolutely passionate about it and it drives you from the moment you wake up in the morning,” he said.
Fatboy Slim continued, “I don’t seem to feel that way anymore. That’s how I feel about DJing and doing stuff like that, but I’ve kind of lost my passion for making music.”
The “Right Here, Right Now” hitmaker revealed he spent five years trying to “beat myself up about it”.
“But then I thought, ‘Well, everybody likes my DJing and I enjoy it more, so I’m going to do it,'” Fatboy Slim said.
He added: “I hope one day the passion will return.”
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Fatboy Slim also reflected on how his son Woody, 24, who he shares with late ex-wife Zoe Ball, decided to pursue a career as a DJ.
“As long as Woody lived with me, he was always into music – and then he started clubbing quite seriously,” he said. “I used to say to him, ‘Do you want to be a DJ?’ He says, ‘Well, I thought about it, I’ll always live in your shadow.’
That changed when he went to university in Bristol. He called his father “two weeks later and said, ‘Dad, I started DJing.’
“All those years I could have mentioned him,” said Fatboy Slim. “But he couldn’t do that when he lived with me. He wanted to do it himself.”
He added: “I think we’re both very afraid of nepotism.”
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