How are you feeling with the
upcoming release of the album
and the single?
songs that I love, that I would
personally listen to. So that’s the way I
went about it and I just think it’s so
important that when you’re making
Yeah I’m feeling good, I’m excited. It’s something on your own as an
nerve wrecking but
individual that it’s passion-filled. That
exciting. But it’s just raw passionate emotion and
I’m just
that’s what I’m trying to do with this
kinda going album. I’ve definitely poured my heart
with the flow into this album so fingers crossed that
and hopefully people hear that when they listen to it
it’s gonna do y’know?
ok.
Why did you choose Daughtry’s
Tell me
song for your first single?
about the
album, what
Again it’s just that that’s the type of
sort of sound music that I love, that type of rock
can we expect power ballad, emotional song, and all
from you?
the boxes that needed to be ticked are
ticked in that song. It’s not your
Well to be honest typical slushy ballad it’s more of a
I don’t feel it’s a
kind of a drivey pushy rock ballad and
million miles away that’s the type of music that I love.
from what we used And for me Daughtry are the modern
to do in Westlife, I day ballad rock group. I think I rocked
feel like it’s still
it a tiny bit it’s not as heavy as
kind of balladry but Daughtry did if you listen to
it’s not too balladry Daughtry’s version compared to my
y’know. It’s got a
version the guitars aren’t as loud and
lot more guitar in things like that. I’ve put piano on it
it, a bit more of a and I’ve got strings on mine whereas
rock beat, got a
theirs is a down and out rock band. I
bit more of a
feel the rock element is there but at
drive in it.
the same time not alienating anybody
Did you have by making it too rocky.
a specific
What was the process of
direction in
recording the album?
mind when
you started It all happened very quickly to be
putting the honest, I started recording in January.
album
I got offered this record deal after
together?
doing the TV show I’m A Celebrity Get
Me Out Of Here, and when I won that
Well for me it was about music that I show I came out of the jungle, came
love. I think making an album like this back to the UK and got offered a
as a solo artist, coming out of a band
record deal and before I knew it I was
like Westlife, it’s not about selling
in the studio recording an album. And
millions of records and doing the big
now here I am about to release it so
thing all over again. I can’t imagine
it’s been fairly manic it’s been fairly
that’ll ever happen. So it was just
full on.
about doing something that I was
really passionate about, and that’s
why the album sounds the way it
sounds, the songs that I picked are the
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