Kenny Loggins has plenty of hits to his credit-solo and with former partner Jim Messina-but, at age 43, the singer-songwriter has decided he no longer wants to call the Top 40 friend.
”Because of `Danger Zone` and the easy pop hits of my career, I feel allergic to it,” Loggins explains. ”When I was making my new record, I decided, `If anything sounds like an easy pop hit, I`m changing it.` It was just on principle; when anything felt easy, poppish, it wasn`t right. It could be better.”
Not surprisingly, Loggins` ”Leap of Faith”-his eighth album-is a heavyweight, filled with long numbers inspired by his divorce from Eva, his wife of 13 years, and a new love affair he began shortly after. The lesson Loggins says he learned is that ”my career and my life are the same exact thing-there`s no separation here.” And he wanted to reflect that on his latest record.
”When I set out to make `Leap of Faith,` I wanted to make an entire album of `Celebrate Me Home,”` he says. ”I wanted everything on the album to feel important to me.”
