Scottish singer-songwriter “KT Tunstall” has recently released her seventh studio album Nut. It’s the third album of a trilogy which explores the Body, Soul, and Mind. The album’s first single, Private Eyes, recounts a surreal celebrity encounter at a party early in Tunstall’s career.
Early on after my big success, I would dip my toe into accepting invites to random parties. At one party in a little club in Soho, London, a beautiful actress – who I didn’t know personally – in a big puffball gown, grabbed my hand and pulled me down the stairs into the basement kitchen in a panic. She was terrified of the paparazzi stalking her outside – she couldn’t face them,” Tunstall shares. “Mascara was running down her face as she had a meltdown on the floor. I had to break it to her, there was no door down here; the only way out was back up. But I remember through my own boozy haze how tragic it seemed that this person had so craved a life that had now felt like a prison. Beautiful eyes that didn’t want everyone looking into them.
Private Eyes is new this week on RadiJohan.