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First Posted: 11/4/2013
Gavin DeGraw does not take the job of naming his albums lightly.
“It’s funny because when you go through and you try to figure out what to name an album… I was going through going, ‘Maybe I’ll go through and I’ll pick a song title to name the album after, yanno?’” said DeGraw of the initial thought process behind “Make a Move.” “You start seeing how one song title might be misinterpreted as an album title, how it could go all wrong.”
The “Chariot” singer mentioned the song “Leading Man,” and how he felt it was a cool song title but would’ve sounded “totally douchey” as the name of the LP.
“I thought ‘Make a Move’ was a good choice,” DeGraw said of his eventual selection. “It was the type of thing that couldn’t necessarily be misinterpreted too poorly.”
The release marks the artist’s fifth studio album and first since 2011’s “Sweeter,” which spawned the hit “Not Over You.” The lead single “Best I Ever Had” certainly sets the tone for a different sound of DeGraw’s.
“This is definitely a step towards another direction,” DeGraw admitted. “There are songs on this album that I think are reflective of ‘Chariot,’ but at the same time there are other songs on this album that really do feel almost as if it’s a completely different artist, which is something I’m really proud of.”
RONAN FARROW ADJUSTS TO NEW ATTENTION
Ronan Farrow probably never had much of a chance of being “a typical twenty-something.” After all, Farrow graduated Bard College at age 15. While many at age 16 study for their learner’s permit, the New York City-born scholar was entering into Yale Law School. Farrow was appointed as a Special Adviser for Global Youth Issues by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2011. When he left in 2012, Farrow began a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University.
That alone is enough to raise one’s eyebrows. Then you realize who his parents are… or allegedly are. Until this month, everyone believed that Ronan was the son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, but then in an exclusive interview with Vanity Fair, the mother left open the possibility that his biological father may in fact be Frank Sinatra, whom Mia was first married to. While their divorce was finalized in 1968, the actress told Vanity Fair that she and the singer “never really split up.”
Naturally, there has been a lot more attention than normal around the 25 year-old Ronan.
“It’s distracting to have a lot of attention, but it’s a great luxury in a lot of ways,” Farrow told me a few weeks ago. “If it gets an extra set of people to watch, then I’m all for it.”
He’s obviously no fool: Farrow hopes that the publicity will translate into ratings when he debuts a new show this January on MSNBC.
“The new gig is incredibly exciting,” he said of the job. “You better watch! We’ve got some exciting new ideas about how you can get involved with news stories.”
Certainly this past month has opened Ronan’s eyes to ways that can happen that he never thought imaginable.
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