Gala: from Farway, she's back!

[undisco_me]

Gala, the legendary and enigmatic late 90’s euro-dance diva, has finally resurfaced. She has a brand new website, and new hair. The video to Faraway has been shot and is now up to watch. It’s really simple, but amazing. Her trademark presentation is faultless as ever, now looking like Liz Hurley, Brook Sheilds and Charlotte Coleman (a.k.a Scarlett from Four Weddings), while at the same time not looking any different than you would expect her to. Her new pictures are fab: sculpted, toned and possessing the same androgynous beauty as before. New videos – I Am The World, The World Is Me and I Like The Way You – should already have been shot. Galasound also features clips from her Italian #1 and international hit singles Freed From Desire (UK#2) and Let A Boy Cry (UK#11), as well as performances (TOTP) and interviews. Her bio also claims she left her record company at the peak of her success (I don't doubt it), and now resides with EMI.



On the song Faraway, her voice has really came along way. Whereas on the track Come Into My Life (UK#38), she lost the sharp vocal sound achieved on her first singles (although let's not forget those italo-house piano keys), with this new one she has developed the softer tones in a much more emphatic way than ever before. The deranged posing – her signature point – has lost none of its striking impact. The lyrics ("it's her name I hate") are suitably bonkers, and I for one could not be happier to see some evidence of a long overdue comeback. I love Gala.

[sunsetboy]

So, what's the adress of her site?

[undisco_me]

I didn't think you were allowed to post links, but it's www.galasound.com. I referred to it by name in my post.

[sunsetboy]

Thank you very much, I didn't get the reference before

[undisco_me]

Here are tthe lyrics to Faraway:

It’s your name I hear
inside my head
sweet
like the many tears I shed

It’s your name I call
your name read
my prayer, my creed

It’s your name I hate
because I love you
still
and I can’t live this way

It’s your name I keep
The only thing
You can’t take
From me

I wanna hold you
so
someday
I’m gonna dive in your eyes
be castaway

I wanna please you
so
please stay
and I will lead you

Faraway, away, away, away,away, away

It’s your name I feel
the pact I seal
your name

It’s your name I call
under the sky
salty
like the tears I cried

It’s your name I hate
Because I love you
Still
And I can’t live this way

It’s your name I keep
The only thing
You can’t take from me

I wanna hold you
so
someday

[hudweiser]

My lover's got no money he's got his trampoline...
My lover's got no power he's got his trampoline...

Bless her.

[ladylloyd]

she looks lovely in that last picture! still doing that pointy thing I see....I loved Gala back in the day - remember her totp performance performing live and doing a weird ballet dance thing, barefoot! i LOVED it.
Anyone remember the awful album version of Freed from desire though?

[annapanna]

Oh. My.

I LOVED Gala.

This is potentially exciting.

[NumanumAnzej]

Well I FUCKING loved Gala. So much I did a portrait of her and had it on my wall for several years. That was before I realised I was gay, but on reflection, the signs were there. To be honest I never thought she was going to release anything again. That said, I swear Faraway has already been released in France and flopped

Edit: Oh god, I just saw the video. She's as great as ever. The only thing that could improve that song is a great big stomping Eurodance beat, but we know how likely that is these days.

[Dennis]

Yes, I started a thread a few months ago about Gala being back, back, BACK! With this song. But hey, a website. And a video. She's going places.

She's gorgeous. And I love that we still hardly know ANYTHING about the woman. She's a "European native", her bio states. And frankly, I don't need to know more.

[NumanumAnzej]

Oh, that'll be why I remember then. Boybitch probably thought the single was about to come out. Sadly, it was this time last year. Even sadderly, it got to number 99 in the French charts (http://www.infodisc.fr/Bilan_G.php)

[Fax Mactor]

hudweiser said:

My lover's got no money he's got his trampoline...
My lover's got no power he's got his trampoline...

Bless her.

Oh i remember her now.

Are those the real lyrics? I always thought they were, but i always thought, 'no, they cant be the real words. I'm being stupid' etc.

[Dennis]

... he's got his strong beliefs.

Allegedly.

[Katrien Verbeeck]

Gala is fantastic, I came across her website the other day while I was at work and I almost had a spasm! I bought Faraway when I was in France last September and I'm sure it was at #21 or something in FNAC (French Music Store), but I dunno how that works.

I love her new material on the album, I wanna listen to the other tracks on the 2nd page but it doesn't work!

I've got quite a lot of her stuff, all the UK releases as well as the Suddenly, Megamix, Everyone Has Inside and Faraway singles & the album.

I think she left the music scene because her husband/boyfriend died, I'm not sure about this though.

[infinitynets]

Ohmigod, the site has the Let a Boy Cry video with the cute boy gayness which I saw on Saturday morning tv in a friends kitchen when I was young and (sort of not really) impressionable and have been wanting to see again ever since. I can die happy now. This really has made my day.

[vasilios]

Here in Greece a greek cover of Faraway is the lead single off the debut album by Super Idol runner-up, a very sweet georgian girl called Tamta. Gala's version is a hit too, now.

[NumanumAnzej]

Can I the greek version anywhere? Sounds interesting. Let us know if the Gala album comes out there. It might be the only place I can get it...

[vasilios]

I can send it to you no probs. Just give me an email or streamload acc. Anyway om me.

[NumanumAnzej]

Cheers. I get the feeling Faraway is one of those songs that a big UK or US artist is going to cover at some point, and everyone will forget Gala existed... *illegal smiley* and at the same time really.

[beNcooKe]

she's gorgeous still. lovely eyes.

Let a boy cry has been on my playlists for ages.

[undisco_me]

Apparantly Faraway is now top 10 in Greece, and #3 in Lebanon. There's a clip of I Like The Way You on her myspace, although it does little to egnite much excitement, much the way Faraway didn't give a lot away either when I heard a first clip of that. It's out in France in September, supposedly. Also up on her myspace is a full clip of a rather wonderful new murky disco remix of Freed From Desire. I really think she is going places.


The cheekbones! Look at the jawline...


... 9 years away and not a day of it on her face.

[spinme]

infinitynets said:

Ohmigod, the site has the Let a Boy Cry video with the cute boy gayness which I saw on Saturday morning tv in a friends kitchen when I was young and (sort of not really) impressionable

They look distressingly like brothers. And not particularly hot brothers, either.

This hasn't ruined my day. Week.

Cheerio, Michael. xxx

[Katrien Verbeeck]

You can hear a really funky remix of her new song on the Ospina website....I'll find the link!

www.ospinamusic.com/ospinamusic_2004/ospinamusic.html

I really like the lyrics to the new song, it should do well for her I think.