Stamp's next album is just |for him, thanks very much

Stamp tells GM magazine in its February issue that he’s now completely concentrating on penning new tunes for his next album.
This is the first time he’s done absolutely nothing else in five years, he says. He’s been performing, acting, writing songs for movies and shilling for car and phone makers non-stop.
In all that time there was a bee in his bonnet, though, and its repeated stings are what inspired him to get to work on a new album. The problem was his last album, “Stamp Supermarket”. “It was a mess – no concept or harmony on the album at all!” he says.
“I’m a bit embarrassed when I listen to it. This time I want to try to get back that feeling of the good old days, when I first started out in music. I’m working on every song very carefully and thoroughly and making sure there’s a connection between all the songs on the album.”
Stamp says he’s been in the business long enough to realise what he’s been missing. In chasing after success and working hard strictly to entertain the fans, he was always focused on the “commercial” approach. He was constantly listening to hit songs and analysing what made them hits.
It’s not a bad approach, he admits – there’s a specific formula for writing hits. But now he’s decided that a song is much better when it reflects the writer’s true feelings – and when the writer likes the song himself, regardless of what the fans think.
So what we have here is a songwriter who’s enjoying his songs more. Stamp says he probably can’t write the same as he did when he was young anyway, no matter how much he wishes he could. By way of consolation, he’s become a far better listener and, as a result, a better composer.
He’s also enjoying life more now without the self-imposed burden of wanting to always please the crowd.
 

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Movie spin-off
The anti-government protesters huddled around the Ratchaprasong intersection are going to have to clear a path on March 15 – a bridal path.
A lot of talent from the cinema industry will be flocking to the Grand Hyatt Erawan that day for the wedding of Chomsajee Techaratanaprasert, the young and beautiful vice president of sales at Sahamongkol Film International, and her groom, Dhittapong Teerakarn.
Chomsajee is the youngest of three daughters of Sahamongkol chief Somsak “Sia Jiang” and his wife Taunjai, head of the studio’s sales department. The whole family works there – all three daughters and a son.
But Dhittapong has nothing to do with show business – his family runs a pharmaceutical company, LBS Laboratories. We won’t be all that surprised, though, if Sia Jiang “casts” him too in a “leading role” at Sahamongkol.