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And the music’s coming out next year?
Siobhan: There will be something to hear this year. The album will be next year.
What are your three favourite songs from the sessions so far?
Keisha: There’s a song called ‘Drum’ which we all love – it was one of the first songs we did. Actually, before we got signed to our label we’d finished half the album already. It was all about just going in and vibing off each other.
Siobhan: In the beginning we were left to our own devices to figure out exactly what we wanted to do. And the nice thing about ‘Drum’ is that we were working with a guy called MNEK who’s 17, and he’s incredible. It’s really exciting to work with someone like that who’s really fresh. ‘Drum’ is kind of Afrobeat.
How does it go?
Keisha: It’s just of repetitive – “I love it when you beat that drum…”. It’s really inspired by Rihanna, one of the tracks on her album.
How about another song?
Keisha: Another one we all love is called ‘Love Me Hard’ – we did that with Biff and wrote it with Iain James. It was lots of fun – we knew Iain from before, from when he was in Triple 8. Another song we’ve done is called ‘Back In The Day’, and that was produced by Mojam, who were in Blazin’ Squad.
Mutya: They’re amazing.
What’s the vibe of the album going to be? Upbeat, downbeat, mid-tempo…?
Mutya: It’s a bit of a mixture.
Sioban: We started off with a lot of mid-tempo. It seemed like a natural place for us to sit because we love emotive melodies and lyrics and that works with mid-tempo, but we’ve been concentrating a lot more on uptempo tracks towards the end of the album sessions. It will be a 50/50 mix in the end. ‘Drum’, for example, is one of the first uptempos we did and it’s still one of our favourite tracks.
Who was the producer?
Keisha: Brian Higgins.
Siobhan: He actually called me which was weird because I’d never worked with him before.
So he calls up and says, “hello, I’m Brian Higgins, let’s make some music”?
Siobhan: Yes. And I said I’d only do it if it was with the other girls. (Firmly) I didn’t want to do another project on my own.
Your second album was extremely good.
Siobhan: I love that album. And that’s the point. I hadn’t reached the stage where I thought I could better my last album. So what would be the point in making another one? In my mind I thought I’d get married and have kids and then come back to music in another ten years.
Mutya: Wow!
Siobhan: But that was me thinking about being a solo artist. I just didn’t know what the story would have been for a new solo record, do you know what I mean? I so infrequently gel with producers, musically. Basically I had no interest.
So anyway, Brian said, “alright then, I’ll get the gang back together”?
Siobhan: Yes.
Keisha: We basically said, “yes, but we want to do it on our own terms”.
Siobhan: We didn’t want anyone to organise it for us. We wanted to steer the ship ourselves, which is what we did.
Your band name would make it different for anyone to leave, and even more difficult for someone else to join.
Mutya: That’s why we did it! (Laughs)
Who chose the order?
Siobhan: People seem to say it in that order quite naturally. It seems to roll off the tongue like that.
Keisha: Mutya, can I just say something? I found a link the other day which I really want to show you. It’s a clip of you when you’re 16 and they ask you why we came up with the name ‘Sugababes’. And you go: “Well we had to have a band name because we couldn’t have people just calling us Mutya, Keisha, Siobhan”. (Everyone laughs) Amazing! It’s so cute, it’s when you were innocent.
Mutya: I’m still innocent!
What do you think people will call you?
Mutya: They’re going to call us the Sugababes anyway. Guaranteed.
Siobhan: I’ve been out of the band for this long and I’m still constantly referred to as Siobhan-from-the-Sugababes.
Keisha: We went through so many names.
If Comic Relief came to you and said, ‘HIYA, we’d like you to do the next Comic Relief single with the current lineup of the Sugababes’, would…
Keisha: (Immediately) No!
Siobhan: What was the question?
…would you do it?
Siobhan: Oh right! When you said ‘the current lineup of the Sugababes’, I thought, “that’s us, right?” (Amid uproar) I got really confused!
Mutya: We’d say no, but there’s no hate in it.
Keisha: No.
Would you do it with Girls Aloud?
Siobhan: (Gasps)
Mutya: Why not? I LOVE Girls Aloud. I’ve always liked the girls.
Keisha: That would be a good thing.
Siobhan: And we’re so different that I actually think we’d complement each other.
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