Yahoo

Elvis Costello on the Endurance of ‘This Year’s Model,’ and What’s Gained in Translation With New ‘Spanish Model’

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1978, Elvis Costello looked at a society's collective eagerness to move on to the next thing and snipped, "This is your ...
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Elvis Costello making documentary about 'Spanish Model' album (watch the trailer)

Elvis Costello will release Spanish Model in a few weeks, an album that takes This Year’s Model, his classic first album with The Attractions, and puts puts new Spanish language vocals over the ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Elvis Costello reimagines 1978’s ‘This Year’s Model,’ in Spanish, with help from Juanes, Luis Fonsi and more

The concept of “Spanish Model” is as intriguing as its billing by Elvis Costello & The Attractions is at least somewhat misleading. That seems par for the course for an album as playful — and ...
Rolling Stone

Five Artists on What It’s Like to Sing Elvis Costello’s Songs in Spanish

When Elvis Costello decided to re-record his album This Year’s Model entirely in Spanish, he knew he wasn’t going to do it alone. He saw the entire thing as a lively, hands-on collaboration in which ...
Rolling Stone

Elvis Costello Details ‘Spanish Model’ Project in Upcoming Documentary

A new documentary series will explore Elvis Costello’s upcoming album Spanish Model, a project in which he and producer Sebastian Krys invited artists from across the Spanish-speaking world to adapt ...
American Songwriter

Behind the Album: ‘This Year’s Model,’ the LP Where Elvis Costello Introduced the World to the Attractions

His debut album garnered the hype, but didn’t quite capture the sounds swirling in his head. Elvis Costello rectified that on his 1978 sophomore album This Year’s Model, in part by unleashing his ...
NPR

Elvis En Español: 'This Year's Model' Reimagined

Just about every musician will tell you that it's always about the song. And by that I mean a great song is the fundamental building block for a songwriting career, a great album, even an artist's ...
Chicago Tribune

‘Spanish Model’, la música de Costello se canta en español

Elvis Costello creció escuchando cantar a su padre en español. Ahora sus propias canciones son interpretadas por artistas como Juanes, Luis Fonsi, Fito Páez y muchos otros invitados en “Spanish Model” ...
Under the Radar

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

Leave it to Elvis Costello, long-known for surprising, confusing, and challenging his fanbase, and his collaborator/producer Sebastian Krys, to take another left turn in a career full of them, this ...
The Columbian

Costello preps Spanish ‘This Year’s Model’

Juanes arrives at the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year gala in Las Vegas on Nov. 13, 2019, in Las Vegas, left, and Elvis Costello poses for a portrait in New York on Sept. 17, 2018. Costello ...
Variety

Elvis Costello on the Endurance of ‘This Year’s Model,’ and What’s Gained in Translation With New ‘Spanish Model’

Looking back to 1978, Costello says, "When we made 'Pump It Up,' I said, 'Well, this is as good as ‘Satisfaction.’ Let’s see whether other people think that.'” In 2021, Latin stars like Juanes and ...