Kein neues Album, keine Ninjas! Sie machen "Pause"

Lenna und Piret sagen sie wollen eine Pause machen und sich erstmal anderen Dingen als der Band witmen. Auch sagen sie eindeutig das erstmal kein neues Album kommen wird, da sie an keinem arbeiten. Dies sagen sie in dem folgenden Interview.

Unsere persönliche Meinung dazu ist:
Wenn sie sich jetzt anderen Dingen witmen wollen und eine Pause machen, was haben sie dann die letzten Jahre getan? Vanilla Ninja wird wie schon viele andere Bands stumm in der Versenkung verschwinden, ohne ein echtes Ende. Wir Fans werden auf ein neues Album und nun vermutlich sogar auf neue Songs warten. Lange, vielleicht für immer.
Wie auch immer, auf jedem Fall ist es nun sicher, dass Vanilla Ninja noch lange eine "untote" Band bleiben wird.


I suppose the weather is not the best one to play today. Have you played before at Rabarock?

Piret and Lenna: No, actually I think that it is a good experience because the rock fans get a bit scared if they invite us, so now we got invited.

Do you still go by the name Vanilla Ninja?

Piret: We had some legal issues with the name. Lenna: we were 1 year in court but now everything is back to normal.

You are one of the few Estonian bands that broke through internationally. Why does not happen more often?

Both: I don´t know, there is no answer.

Piret: You need to have good connections and we were very very lucky as we had one guy who was working with one Estonian band and we started talking and then we had the chance to go to Germany, but it does not happen really often, like never…

Lenna: I think it happens everywhere, like for example in Germany also, you have many good bands but they are on their own, so the question mark “why” not to go to other country and take competition from there, there is a tough competition.

Piret: Now there are a few bands that have played abroad like Bedwetters, they made an album in Sweden, and Kerli. She has bigger plans.

But at the beginning she was much criticized for going to USA, people telling that she would never achieve anything important…

Both: Well, it is always like this. At the beginning everybody is like “ohh buhh”, and then after when they get a number 1 the same people are like “oh my god, you were so big in the beginning”

I know you do other projects apart from your musical careers, for example Piret was working for MTV…

Piret: Yes, I was working with them. Yeah, we are doing other projects, we have been doing Vanilla Ninja for 7 years, when we started we were very young, and now we all have the feeling that we would like to have a little rest from music and try different things and then come back to it after a few years or something.

How old were you when you started?

Piret: I was 17.

Lenna: Yeah I was 16

"We want to take a little break from the band to keep it fresh" - Lenna and Piret of Vanlla Ninja.

How was when you were teenagers and people recognized you in the streets?

Piret: It was crazy of course!

Lenna: But it was also fun!

Piret: It was fun most of the time, but the longer we do the more we see how hard it is.

Lenna: But actually that is also one reason why we are so grateful because we were so young that we were willing to take all the risks and then when somebody offers to do those things, we say “no way”. At the beginning we were “yeah yeah, let´s do it!”

Piret: I think it was good that we started so young and so naïve.

Now you are young but with a lot of experience!

Both: Yeah, for sure!

What Estonian bands that you would recommend to foreign listeners?

Piret: I really like Kosmikud.

Lenna: I am fond of PopIdiot and Stella.

Piret: Popidiot is really good and I really liked their last album.


What are your future projects for you?

Lenna: As Piret said, we want to take a little break. We do not want to break up with the band, we are making concerts but we are not making any new album at the moment, we are not planning it. We are gonna take it easy and have some fun and try new projects.

Piret: Just to keep ourselv