Fatboy Slim’s relationship with making music has changed.
In a fan Q&A per The Sun, the “Praise You” musician — whose real name is Norman Cook — revealed that he lost his “passion for making music,” 20 years after releasing his last studio album, Palookaville.
“My last two singles just came out of a live show,” Fatboy Slim, 61, said. “They were both things that I made just to play on the side.”
He added: “I had tunes that nobody else had in my set. And that kind of caught on with people when we worked out that we could clear the samples and release them.”
Fatboy Slim then addressed how his relationship with music had shifted over the years.
“The thing is, you can’t make music unless you’re absolutely passionate about it and it drives you from the moment you wake up in the morning,” he said.
Fatboy Slim continued: “I just don’t seem to feel like that anymore. I feel like that about DJing and about putting on things like this, but I’ve kind of lost my passion for making music.”
The “Right Here, Right Now” hitmaker revealed that he spent five years trying “to beat myself up about it.”
“But then I thought, ‘Well, everybody likes my DJing and I enjoy that more, so I’ll do that,'” said Fatboy Slim.
He added, “I’m hoping that one day the passion will come back.”
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Fatboy Slim also addressed how his son Woody, 24, whom he shares with late ex-wife Zoe Ball, decided to pursue a career in DJing.
“All the while that Woody lived with me, he was always into music — and then he got into clubbing quite seriously,” he said. “I used to say to him, ‘Do you want to be a DJ?’ He’s like, ‘Well, I thought about it. The thing is, I’d always be living in your shadow. I’d always be your son.”
That changed when he went to university in Bristol. He called his father “two weeks later and went, ‘Dad, I’ve started DJing.”
“All those years I could have mentioned him,” said Fatboy Slim. “But he couldn’t do it when he was living with me. He wanted to do it on his own.”
He added, “I think both of us are very scared of the nepotism.”
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