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JH: So who would be the person?
A: That’s a good question... Oh gosh…
happen in America so Simon and me have a lot
in common, little did you know!
JH: Is Jennifer Anniston too
conventional? You’ve kind of have a
similar look going on…
A: Yah!
JH: The rest of the World loves you… so it
doesn’t matter really right?
A: Hello the World is big!
JH: Would you have to dub the vocals in?
A: I dunno man, I’ve never heard her on the
karaoke, so she could really blow you away. She
could rock out to one of my songs and I’d be real
surprised. I would see Jennifer Anniston
possibly playing me in the current stage… Yah,
she could play current me. Younger me could be
Emma Roberts. She’s sorta has the humour, but
she has the serious and emotional. Not that she
looks anything like me, but I’d like to look like
her. I’d like to pick the person I’d like to look
like. Do I have to look like myself in my movie?
JH: They have to look like you; you’re the
famous one!
A: Oh come on… It’s my movie, this is my
movie, I can pick what I want! (Laughs)
JH: Are you a fan of the X Factor
juggernaut – considering its artists are
also homed at Sony?
A: I’ve always loved it. My own career got
discovered off something that was before Idol. It
was an MTV show called The Cut. Lisa “Left
Eye” Lopez was the host. It was the artist
singing their own material, not cover songs, so
it was a hard swallow for the public, because
people didn’t know your material. The song that
I was singing was Not That Kind, it’s a song that
inspired people. I wrote it and I could sing it
well. My look was so different that it just
worked. I know the machine of a show like that
and what it can do for people’s careers. I’ve seen
what his (Simon Cowell’s) show has done for a
lot of the winners and some of the people who
didn’t win! It still is an entertainment show at
the end of the day, we all know this, but there is
talent within the entertainment as well. (X
Factor) is a brilliant idea, who knows why it
didn’t quite fly in America, but I can say the
same about my career! (Laughs) I don’t really
JH: The World is massive!
A: Right and I think Americans forget that.
JH: If you were going to be contestant on
X Factor today, what song would you
choose to audition with?
A: Maybe Left Out Side Alone because there’s
such a different range of where I go with that,
from operatic to low voice to belting and it’s
really catchy. It’s a very difficult song to master,
vocally. I think the most popular one on X
Factor is I’m Outta Love. Simon has said (to
me), “I frickin hate your song!” Not serious but
in jest. He’s like, “please don’t sing Anastacia,
it’s like killing it”. It’s the same with Mariah
Carey, Celine Dion and Patti La Belle if you
really wanna go with a shocker song, you really
gotta come with it honey.
JH: There is the saying, ‘don’t sing Mariah
Carey unless you’re Mariah Carey…’
A: Yah, she does such a unique thing with her
voice. Now, I will say that when Leona (Lewis)
came out there I was like, “I can’t be mad with
her if she sang any Mariah Carey” ever.
JH: But her albums didn’t sell after the
first…
A: The X Factor has that extra added value of an
audience that can make them fall in love with
you in editing. Even though Leona’s voice is
amazing you still have t