Kisser Magazine Issue 5

storming the charts again next year. The beauty of it is, I’m all for finding new talent - but I think the show accidently became more about the judges.

Talay Riley - Quick question? You’ve wrote songs for Jessie J and The Saturdays - do you prefer song writing or performing/making music?

It’s kinda like a girlfriend - sometimes you love her, sometimes not, haha. But I love writing, there’s nothing like hearing a song you wrote being sung by someone who sings it so amazingly, but making music is great, doing tours and everything, seeing fans enjoying your music...

Ey up Dappy! This was your first live solo performance - was you nervous?

Yeah, but once I got out there and saw everyone singing all the words to ‘No Regrets’ which has only been on the airwaves a few weeks is amazing and a great feeling that makes me want to carry on making great music for the masses.

Hopes for the new single?

It’s my dream to have a no.1 single! I want my gran to go into the petrol station and hear it and my mum at the butchers! I was aiming for a new sound, so I hope it pays off - I wanna take things to the next level!

It’s got very British lyrics, but the production sounds quite Yanklike. Is that what you mean by something different? [dips shades down] You saying I’m goin American? I ain’t going American man!

No, we mean UK lyrics and a US sound, sort of going for a good mixture?

Yeah, compromise is what I was going for - you’re right, I get you now. It’s a more universal sound. I aren’t trying to be American. It’s British, but make the American’s happy. The bloke at Def Jam tried to tell me what to do - I told him I ain’t gunna do what he’s saying!!!

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