In an interview with Popjustice, electro group Goldfrapp speaks more about their collaboration with Christina.

Has writing with Christina Aguilera opened the door to more collaborations with other mainstream pop icons? (eg Britney Spears, Justin Beiber, or such and so forth).

Alison: It’s something we’ve been asked in every interview we’ve done so far, which is now quite a few, and it’s all over the net and everywhere. Everyone’s talking about us writing with Christina Aguilera, and… Well, we wrote her a song, but we have no idea what is happening with it. And that’s because they haven’t wanted to play it to us.
Will: Probably for security reasons. I mean if we were in LA they’d probably just say, ‘come round and we’ll play it to you’.
Alison: Yeah, so we don’t know. That’s the short answer of what’s gonna happen, whether it’s on her new album or not, we just don’t know right now. Unfortunately we’ve been asked about it in interviews so it’s all round the net at the moment with me saying, ‘I ing hope she doesn’t release it because it’s not finished!’ We’d really like to have the opportunity to hear it and improve it if we can.

Was there something about writing for Christina that appealed in a way that writing for other artists hadn’t previously appealed?

Alison: We just thought – well, we’d never ever done it before. I think we’ve been asked once and we weren’t able to because we were so busy, and this just sort of came at a time when we were in between albums and we just thought it’d be an interesting experience.
Will: We did have a couple of tracks that were sort of undeveloped, and we just sent them to her.
Alison: And she really liked them.
Will: So she got us over to work with her on them. Well, one in the end, for a week. And it was nice. I think it was a good experience. A bit of a challenge.
Alison: It was kind of an experiment really, it was one of those weird things that sort of snowballed into something bigger than we’d really thought about. She was telling everyone that she was working with us and a whole bunch of people and the truth is that we haven’t really heard anything.

The list of potential and rumoured collaborators on this album is pretty impressive…

Alison: Yeah, and I don’t know what the deal is with them either, so it’s one of those things that’s snowballed and been talked about, but actually no one really seems to know anything. (Laughs) Christina Aguilera’s obviously a very big name, and there’s a big machine that circulates all around it and we’re kind of very small fry and really independent, so you’re really at the mercy of the big machine that’s constantly revolving around her, and there’s not very much that we can do or say at this point.

Is there any appeal in outside songwriters contributing songs for Goldfrapp?
Alison: Yeah, I think we’re open to any suggestions of anything! It’s all very interesting, and I guess if someone said to us, ‘we’d really love you to perform a song that we’ve written’, we’d definitely give it a listen.