Lorraine Lewis‘s long-running band FEMME FATALE has simply launched a brand new single, “Unhealthy Love”, through Cleopatra Information. The tune’s accompanying music video, directed by Vicente Cordero and shot by David Hernandez, might be seen under.
FEMME FATALE‘s first single after years out of the highlight, “Residing Like There’s No Tomorrow”, made a monster splash earlier this yr, and now they’re again with “Unhealthy Love”, a dynamite stomper that is accompanied by some of the incendiary movies of the yr. The clip is a visible extravaganza that hits as arduous because the tune itself. “And sure,” Lorraine confirms. “That is actual hearth. We additionally introduced in some unimaginable hearth performers and even an actual firefighter from the grownup business named Eva Angelina. With out giving an excessive amount of away, let’s simply say the video is HOTTT!”
Written by Lorraine, TRIXTER guitarist/producer Steve Brown and guitarist David Julian, “Unhealthy Love”, she says, “is about that magnetic form of connection you recognize is not good for you, however you retain going again anyway. It is messy, it is addictive and it is actual. I wished to seize that push-and-pull between need and self-preservation. We have all been there. We see the crimson flag and nonetheless soar in headfirst… but when that crimson flag’s on hearth? Child, that is your cue to run.
“I am fortunate to work with Steve,” she continues. “He’s at all times magic. Steve and David actually helped deliver ‘Unhealthy Love’ to life sonically.”
However Steve additionally introduced in some heavy hitters for the observe — the killer rhythm part of Joey Cassata on drums and Sean McNabb on bass. Plus, what Lorraine so precisely describes as “a slaying guitar solo” from former GUNS N’ ROSES guitarist Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal. The result’s a really pyro-powered feast for all of the senses, with Lorraine wanting and sounding as mesmeric as ever, and the band (with drummer Nick Mason dipping for Cassata) as electrifyingly assaultive because the tune calls for.
However how may they be anything? As Lorraine says, “There is no faking that warmth.”
In a latest interview with Rev. Tom Brice of Sportzwire Radio, Lorraine said about “Unhealthy Love”: “Steve Brown performs guitar, and David Julian performs rhythm guitar on the observe. And we are also that includes Bumblefoot… That is a very massive deal. And I am tremendous honored and grateful that he is on the observe. And his solo is sick — it is so sick. It is beautiful. It is layered and simply juicy and scrumptious. So I can not look forward to individuals to listen to the observe.”
Concerning her collaboration with Brown, Lewis instructed Sportzwire Radio: “Lots of people are working with Steve, as a result of Steve is a tremendous producer. It was final yr that Steve reached out to me. He was simply coming off the success of [Ace Frehley‘s] ‘10,000 Volts’ album. [The ‘10,000 Volts’ title track is a] nice, nice tune. That and ‘Cherry Medication’ I beloved off the album. Traditional Ace however in 2024. It was nice.”
She continued: “I am simply so fortunate that Steve reached out to me. Steve and I had been labelmates again within the day on MCA. We have additionally achieved the cruises collectively. We have recognized one another a very long time. And so he reached out to me and mentioned, ‘Hey, let’s do an album.’ And I mentioned, ‘Let’s go.’ So the primary tune was ‘Residing Like There’s No Tomorrow’. He had the refrain able to go. I instantly was, like, ‘Oh, that is such an incredible anthem.’ And it simply spoke to me then with every part that had gone on within the earlier months earlier than we began working collectively.”
“Residing Like There’s No Tomorrow” was written by Lewis and Brown, who additionally produced the tune at his Mojo Vegas 6160 studio in New Jersey. The observe was engineered by Brown and Scott Gutierezz and was combined by Bruno Ravel.
“Residing Like There’s No Tomorrow” options Brown and David Julian on guitars, with the guitar solo performed by R.J. Ronquillo, and drums performed by Kent Slucher.
FEMME FATALE launched a self-titled MCA album in 1988 which produced two massive rock singles and MTV movies: “Ready For The Massive One” and “Falling In And Out of Love”.
The 67-year-old Lewis reactivated FEMME FATALE after an almost six-year run because the lead vocalist of VIXEN, whom she was invited to hitch in 2019. Lorraine has additionally been recording with Lou Gramm, the unique FOREIGNER lead singer and Rock And Roll Corridor Of Famer. They’ve recorded an interpretation of David Bowie‘s “Heroes”.
Lewis was fired from VIXEN in Could 2024 and was changed by Rosa Laricchiuta.
In January 2019, VIXEN recruited Lewis as its new lead singer following the departure of Janet Gardner.
Lewis had already carried out with VIXEN in March 2018 in Durant, Oklahoma whereas Gardner was recovering from surgical procedure.
A group of demos for what was alleged to be FEMME FATALE‘s second album, “One Extra For The Highway”, was launched in 2016 through FnA Information. The demos had been recorded again in 1989/1990 with the unique bandmembers and had by no means seen the sunshine of day till greater than 1 / 4 century later.
“One Extra For The Highway” contained 14 tracks, together with a model of Janis Joplin‘s “Piece Of My Coronary heart”.
FEMME FATALE launched a stay album in April 2024, “Demos + Reside”, that additionally included 5 demo tracks and a canopy of AC/DC‘s “It is A Lengthy Manner To The High”.
In a latest interview with Jeff Gaudiosi of MisplacedStraws.com, Lewis said in regards to the present FEMME FATALE lineup: “Nicely, it is all guys, for one factor. I’ve had a beautiful time being with the women of rock and roll — don’t get me unsuitable — I’ve had a serious blast. However FEMME FATALE initially was myself and 4 rocking guys, and we’re getting again to the roots of that.
“Look, we won’t return to the ’80s — I do not wanna do this — however I do need to be the entrance individual, the chief of the pack that has these nice rocking guys in again of me,” she defined. “And so we’re getting again to that look, getting again to that sound.”
