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Promotion, touring, clothing, being away from my family…" she laughs. "The need to feel important in the music world – it's all of it." In an interview with Q magazine in 1993, lang said she was "very into omens. A lot of decisions are made by flipping a coin. And I don't f--k with it. When I flip a coin, that's the way it is. The coin doesn't lie…. And if I see a crow somewhere where a crow wouldn't usually be, it's some sort of a sign. I consider myself a crow. I don't know why. I just feel I have an affiliation towards them." Woods, Mel (June 8, 2021). "To mark 'Makeover,' 5 iconic moments from k.d. lang's career". Xtra Magazine . Retrieved August 6, 2022. If lang (who recently started using she/they pronouns on social media) ... Ingénue is the second solo album by Canadian singer k.d. lang, released in 1992. It is Lang's most successful album on the pop charts, both in her native Canada and internationally, and has more of a cabaret flavor than her earlier more country-influenced work. [2] Singles [ edit ] Ingénue—an album named for the roles ascribed to young women, and one that early screen stars wilfully exploited for professional reward—often finds lang questioning who she has become in the wilds of heartbreak. “The Mind of Love” comes from a similarly comic school to “Miss Chatelaine,” a pillowy torch song where she considers her plight with tender impatience. “Talking to myself/Causing great concern for my health,” she declares, with operatic boldness, only to circle in on the joke and ask, “ Where is your head, Kathryn?” in an all-time great example of a star singing their own name. But lang also plays it dejected, a mode that can seem to weigh heavy given her evident spryness.

She is a vegetarian. [34] Her "Meat Stinks" campaign in the 1990s created much controversy, particularly in her hometown, in the middle of Alberta's cattle ranching industry—she was banned from more than 30 Alberta radio stations. A sign in Consort, Alberta, stating "Home of k.d. lang" was burned to the ground. Alberta's agriculture minister at the time said it was "extremely unfortunate that she has decided to side with the animal rightists. There's a certain feeling of betrayal – we have supported k.d. fairly well in Alberta". More than a dozen radio stations in the U.S. throughout Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Montana and Nebraska also boycotted playing her records due to her "Meat Stinks" campaign. [35] On Ingénue, you hear lang brushing against the limits of internal experience. It’s an album about purgatory, a place where you work out who you are. But then there’s the lonely, self-flagellating hermitage of it. There is the private fantasy of a self, a side that lang makes genuinely sexy: “I can exist being caught by your kiss,” she belts on “So It Shall Be,” a moment of subjugation that soon melts away. “Outside Myself,” Ingénue’s most beautifully written song, explicitly evokes that dislocation: “I’ve been outside myself for so long,” she heaves, answering the earlier question from “The Mind of Love. It’s a great, rueful sigh of realization that obsession is as much self-neglect as self-indulgence. Lindemann, Christoph (2006). "K.D. Lang: Ingénue". In Dimery, Robert (ed.). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Universe Publishing. p.688. ISBN 978-0-7893-1371-3. In April 2008, lang spent time in Melbourne, Australia, as a guest editor for The Age. This was in connection with her support for the Tibet human rights issues. On April 24, 2008, she joined pro-Tibet protesters in Canberra as the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay made its way through the Australian capital. [38] Portland's own k.d. lang on her Oregon Zoo concert and moving to the Rose City". The Oregonian. June 30, 2012 . Retrieved July 2, 2012.In 2003, she won her fourth Grammy Award, for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for her collaboration with Tony Bennett on A Wonderful World. She participated in the Leonard Cohen memorial celebration "Tower Of Song" in Quebec in November 2017, performing " Hallelujah". Constant Craving" was the first single released from the album. It peaked at number 8 in Lang's native Canada, [3] number 38 on the US Billboard Hot 100 [4] and number 15 in the UK Singles Chart when re-released, becoming her biggest solo hit single there. [5] "Constant Craving" inspired (albeit subconsciously) The Rolling Stones' 1997 single " Anybody Seen My Baby?", from their Bridges to Babylon album, with the result that the Stones gave writing credits on that song to Lang and her collaborator Ben Mink. [6] Ingénue won the Juno Award for best album in 1993, beating out a host of other albums that were also classics in the making: Celine Dion's self-titled record, the Tragically Hip's Fully Completely, Barenaked Ladies' Gordon and Blue Rodeo's Lost Together.

A 2008 article in which lang is interviewed states that "when she isn't working, [lang] is mostly a homebody, living quietly with a girlfriend she refers to as 'my wife' — they are not legally married — and her two dogs." [41] Complete UK Year-End Album Charts". Archived from the original on January 11, 2012 . Retrieved October 1, 2011. New Zealand album certifications – kd Lang – Ingenue". Recorded Music NZ . Retrieved November 18, 2021. The introduction could be construed as confident, with lang pacing across the stage. Or perhaps the urgency of her speech was down to nerves. But when she began singing Orbison’s song, Crying, something bigger than a cover version happened. At the chorus, lang’s vocal was intimidatingly, overwhelmingly powerful.Milward, John (April 30, 1992). "k.d. lang: Ingenue". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on April 20, 2008 . Retrieved August 30, 2011.

Canadian performer k.d. lang broke new ground in the 1980s by blending the genres of punk and country, dubbed “cowpunk,” with her band, the Reclines. Despite Grammy-award-winning recordings and frequent North American TV spots, mainstream country radio excluded lang from airplay due to her unconventional gender presentation and perceived sexuality. Not until lang's 1992 pop album Ingénue, the release of the single “Constant Craving,” and her subsequent coming out in The Advocate did lang earn critical acclaim worldwide. Ingénue is on the list of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, as is lang's solo debut, Shadowland. K D LANG - full Official Chart History - Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com . Retrieved August 2, 2018. Lang: When I talk about unfulfilled desire, it's not just human physical love. It's the love I feel for animals; it's the love I feel for trees. You know, the video is loosely based on Waiting for Godot.

I am deeply honoured that they listen, I am deeply respectful to their wishes and desires, but at the same time I've tried to be 100 per cent honest and authentic with myself and with my music," she says. Canadian Singer K.D. Lang Will Protest for Tibetans Today: Here She Tells Why". The Age. April 24, 2008 . Retrieved April 26, 2008. A year later, she took her career in a more conventional direction, albeit marginally. lang was an androgyne from rural Canada who considered herself to be the reincarnation of Patsy Cline, convinced she was born to be a country star. Even in outlaw terms, she was a long shot in conservative Nashville, a city nonetheless seduced by her punky verve and saucy rambunctiousness, a hay-bale alternative to the genre’s burgeoning cosmopolitanism. She was accepted, to a degree—her vegetarianism and PETA allegiance notwithstanding—but lang knew that acceptance was creative death. By the early ’90s, she felt that she had exploited country’s full creative potential. Now was time to develop her own romantic language. Sometimes songs pop up in five or 10 minutes very naturally, and then sometimes songs take years," she says. When k.d. lang was growing up in Alberta, she used to sign her name in her notebooks with a star — a sign of what was to come, perhaps.