Beth Ditto

Are you actually doing that show now?

No, so Beth Ditto is doing that show.

Oh, is she? Yeah, it was her first show last week, which is fine.

I mean, that show, they always wanted it to come from London.

Um, so that was probably like my first professional-ish gig.

But then before I graduated, I wanna say like, probably like three months before I graduated, um, a, uh, American artist called Beth Ditto.

She used to be in a band called The Gossip, and then she went solo.

So, uh, there was somebody that worked at the college that was like, "There's an audition coming up.

Let's have the song, I Wrote the Book.

Yeah.

By Beth Ditto.

[upbeat music] Oh.

Like there's some really incredible artists out there.

You know, you think of Lizzo and you think of Beth Ditto, these women who are just such powerful forces and have incredible senses of style.

And, you know, make your little mood board, tape it up in your closet doors.

So you can remind yourself that you're not the only one who has your beautiful shape and has to get up every day and get dressed.

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Move in the Right Direction was written by Frederick Fike, Brian Higgins, Kieran Reese Jones, Beth Ditto, Jason Resch, and Toby LeMessurier-Scott, and appears as the fourth song on Gossip's fifth studio album, A Joyful Noise.

The uptempo dance tune is about overcoming fear and gaining confidence through moving forward.

Released as the second single from the LP, it went to No. 17 on the Billboard Dance Club singles chart.

Personnel on the record were Beth Ditto, vocals, Hannah Billy, drums, percussion, and Nathan Houshell, guitar, bass, keyboards, programming.

A Joyful Noise was recorded during 2012 at KBC in Portland, Oregon, and Zenomania in Kent, England.

Produced by Brian Higgins and Gossip, the album was released in May 2012.

It went to No. 20 on the Billboard Top Alternative and No. 100 on the Billboard 200 Albums Charts.