Kelly Osbourne claims she doesn’t care about how well her debut album, “Shut Up!,” sells when it’s released next week, but she does actually sound like a demon possessed. Albeit a very nice, fashionable demon.
“I just had so much fun doing it – writing the songs, recording them and seeing how they ended up,” she says.
“I’d get crazy. They’d tell me, ‘Track 7 is coming in today.’ I’d freak out until I got to the house, and then I’d run up to the bedroom and lock the door and listen to it about 20 times before I let anyone else hear it.”
Kelly swung through the doors of American pop culture because of the surprise popularity of “The Osbournes” and a quickie hit single – a cover of Madonna’s “Papa Don’t Preach,” which her sister and mom chose for her – that she released this summer. That lead to a the deal with Epic for her album.
Ozzy Osbourne’s sweetheart of a daughter says that just finishing the record is satisfaction enough. “I [put] so much [into] making it, that to me it’s a goal achieved. I don’t think having a No. 1 album or single defines you as any better a musician than someone who doesn’t.”
So when Kelly’s asked what she hopes will come from the album, she says, “nothing.” You almost believe her.
And you won’t find any songs about love on her new disc either.
“The songs might have the word ‘boy’ or the word ‘crush’ in it but none of my songs are about that,” she says.
Songs about being in love, Kelly says, are “ridiculous.” Of course it might depend on the messenger.
“If you’re Britney Spears or some 2-year-old pop singer, oh please, f– off,” she says. But in general, she adds, “I’m not a sappy-song kind of person.”
Instead, she wrote mostly about friends and family. “Contradiction” is about her sister Aimee, who has chosen not to appear on “The Osbournes.” “On Your Own,” is about a bad friend and “Oh Shut Up!” is about her school teachers (although Kelly is a high school dropout).
And what does she have in her CD player today?
“This is gonna be really gay, but it’s myself. I can’t stop listening,” she says.
