Alice Cooper Talks About Working with Ke$ha, More

Posted by Jeremy Thomas on 08.24.2011

Shock rocker dicusses Welcome 2 My Nightmare plans…

Alice Cooper recently spoke about his plans for his upcoming album Welcome 2 My Nightmare, working with Ke$ha and more. Check out the highlights:

On his Nightmare tour plans: "We're already talking about what songs should go in, how they would work, all of that. When we get to November, December, when we're off the road, I imagine we'll write some pieces of (the show), then start it really next year and do the full-out thing. I can't wait."

On including some new songs on his current tour: "I come out with a jacket around and turn around and it says 'New Songs. Then I take the jacket off and it says 'I'll Bite Your Face Off' on the T-shirt. And the audience is already singing it. They hear the first chorus, and they're singing along after that, which is pretty great."

On working with Ke$ha on the album: "I met (Ke$ha) at the Grammys, and I immediately looked at her and went, 'This girl is not a pop diva. She's a rock singer.' She would much rather be the female Robert Plant than the next Britney Spears. (Ezrin) said, 'Nobody's gonna expect Ke$ha on your album.' 'Great! Let's do it!' There's a little bit of defiance in me. Even when my fans think they know what I'm gonna do, I'm like, 'Whaddya mean I can't put Vince Gill on the album?' Nobody's going to expect Ke$ha on my album so, great, let's do it. I like the idea you still can't put me in a corner and say, 'This is what you're gonna sound like.'"

On the album's sound: "I'll Bite Your Face Off" "is a tip of the hat to the (Rolling) Stones, like 'No More Mr. Nice Guy' in a way. Once it got going, Bob and I said, 'Let's just keep going in that direction,' pure Stones. We just had fun with it. If something sounded like a surf song, we said, 'Let's make it a surf song, but let's make it a beach party song where all the people on the beach are zombies, and Alice is in the middle of it because he's having a nightmare'...ON the original 'Nightmare' I put Alice as a seven-year-old boy named Stephen. On this one, it's What would Alice's nightmare be 35 years later? It's a little scarier, more intense."

On the chances of a third Nightmare album in the future: "How many nightmares are you allowed? As many as you can, I think. I keep telling all these guys, the (Rob) Zombies, the Slipknots and everything, 'I'm still the oldest vampire here. You still have to deal with me, 'cause I'm not done by any means.' It's great to be immortalized now, but what's the album after this one? I'm thinking, 'What's next after this?' I'm not thinking about what we did already."