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Something that’s interesting on this album is I’ve worked with
more female writers than I’ve done in the past and I don’t know why that’s happened. I wanted to be more adventurous
with this record and have really fantastic writers that I’ve worked with
over the years and they become great friends.
I think when you’re writing you can be quite vulnerable and
you need to feel very comfortable with the people you’re working with
so sometimes you find yourself sticking to the people you know
and the people you know you can trust. But for this album I thought
"No, it’s time to be more courageous". This was a very important album to me,
I wanted to make this the best album of my career,
which I think it may well be. It’s hard of course because Northern Star
was such an incredible record but this one is also really, really brilliant.
There’s so many people involved, I’m not just saying ‘I’m brilliant’,
because everybody’s worked so *** the record
and really made it what it is so I am very proud of that.
The next song I want to talk about is Drown and I worked with a female writer
called Jodie Marr for the first time and she is incredible.
I had such a wonderful time working with her myself, Adam Argyle and Jodie.
We had 2 days of just laughing and joking and getting down to it
and just getting the most beautiful melodies that we could find,
really trawling our souls to get great lyrics.
This again is about a relationship which is over but you can’t,
you just can’t let those feelings go, it just won’t drown this love
that you feel. It was inspired about bumping into an ex, that’s how the lyrical
idea started for Drown. It’s just that feeling that you think you’re over it,
you’ve moved on, life has changed. And you bump into your ex
and it all comes flooding back, it just floored you,
you can’t believe how you feel after seeing this person,
you really thought all those feelings and emotions had gone but the love wont drown.
So yeah, this was a really wonderful song to work on.
As pop songs go I think it’s really intelligent as a pop song and I really hope
I get to work with Jodie again, she was brilliant.
One of her big hits that people will know her for was with Mika
and she was a co-writer on Grace Kelly. She’s done many other things,
she’s worked with Cee Lo Green, she’s worked with lots of different people but she’s really fantastic.
The production of this is once again very, very beautiful.
Andy Chatterley worked on this and I think Paul Boddy as well did some additional production.
This was a really important song for me to get right because it was always such a great demo and just had so much heart and I have to be honest and say
it was a little bit of a struggle getting this right because it was so important.
But eventually we got there and I think it’s, it’s quite a highlight of the record