Moby ‘Best Of’ - Interview

MOBY: Well, following up "Play" was actually relatively easy, because I'd never expected "Play" to be successful, so because "Play" had been so successful, to an extent, I felt liberated. I felt like, "Oh, OK. Now I can just go and make the record that I want to make."

I mean, certainly there was some commercial pressure and there was this part of me that wanted the fame to continue a little bit, but I was more concerned with trying to make a record that I loved than with trying to replicate the success of "Play" and with the next record, with "18", I did end up making a record that I really… From my perspective it's a very personal record and it's a record that I really love. It's a record that I really, really, you know… am really happy with.

Q27: "18" has been described as being musically similar to "Play". Would you say that was fair?

MOBY: It's strange… If "18" is musically similar to "Play"… I guess so. I mean, I don't know why it wouldn't be similar, seeing it was made by the same person in the same studio with the same equipment, so it did seem funny when "18" was released and a lot of journalists, especially in the UK, criticised it for being too similar to "Play" and I just thought to myself, "Since when is that a bad thing?"
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