it on my own’. Speaking of the songwriting, has it been weird to watch The Wanted become huge with songs you wrote? ‘All Time Low’ made them big in the UK, ‘Glad You Came’ in the US… ‘All Time Low’ was written for myself. I had that chorus melody for about ten months before I fully wrote it. Then after that was a success, me, Steve and Wayne were asked to go back in and write another song. We then wrote ‘Lightning’ and ‘Glad You Came’ came after. But that was rushed out, like ‘this is the one’! But I love seeing their success. I love being a part of it, writing those songs. I don’t get jealous at all, I’m just genuinely happy. Wicked. I’m happy enough writing for other people and seeing it do well.
now kind of in quite a blasé place where I’m like ‘if this works, great; if it doesn’t work, fine’. I’ve had disappointment and let-down before. The least I can do is fall by own sword, do you know what I mean? If it goes wrong, I fucking tried. I’m not gonna lie, so far we’ve got a lot further than we did before! So yeah, I’m taking it as it comes. A lot of upcoming acts seem to be putting stuff out on their own…
‘Glad You Came’ exploded in America… that must have been weird. That was fucking odd. I can’t remember where it started… I think it went in at about 50-odd. Even for the American charts, that’s great because it takes so much longer to climb up. So we watched it and then I flew out to LA to do some songwriting with my best friend out there. And it was my birthday do you think that’s becoming at the time. April 1. We had a big more of a thing? party, and by the morning it had I think so. The thing is, sometimes gone to No1 in the radio charts. I you need the major record labels. was like, ‘I will have a beer’. I had You need their a beer for breakmoney! Like I said, “I’ve had let-down before... fast. It was crazy, I’m in a very lucky the least I can do is fall by but sometimes position to, from you feel quite demy own sword” the songwriting, tached from it; be able to fund this song that’s exploded in Amerthis myself. But, I mean, people ica and I’m sitting in my house in need major record labels to fund Bishop’s Stortford just refreshing it. It’s just now that I can go ‘I’ll do
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