The Wanted Interview
The lads spill on their rivalry with 1D, duetting with Chris Brown, their new disco direction & why they'll never work with The Saturdays...
PA PhotosOn Their New Single, I Found You…
Jay: “You. Not you, sorry. I mean, it could be you. It’s to any woman… Or man. When you’re in a really low, terrible place, and you just feel that you can’t help yourself out of it, you find someone who saves you a little bit. That’s what it’s about, really. To a sort of funky dance, BeeGees tune.”
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WennOn Their New Disco Direction…
Jay: “We’ve never really trod on the retro thing before, ever. We’ve done little bits of rock in our albums, and little bits of folk I guess, and a tiny bit of dubstep. Who hasn’t? But we’ve never done the retro thing, so we thought we’d try it, get the old falsetto out and it sounds quite good.”
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WennOn Why They Dropped Their Original Music Video…
Tom: “It was quite Beatles-esque, weren’t it? It was a bit like the Outkast Hey Ya video…”
Siva: “Well, it wasn’t a bit like it, it was a carbon copy…”
Tom: “It just didn’t turn out that way…”
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Jay: “It didn’t look sharp, it looked cheap and cheesy.”
Tom: “And then we were in London, and we were like, ‘Let’s do a London video.’ We’d not done one since the first video, and the first video, I mean… As much fun as we had… It’s a f**cking disgrace.”
Max: “We looked like bums.”
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Rex FeaturesOn What They Pull Out Of The Thames At The End Of The Video…
Siva: “Diamonds…”
Jay: “It was crystal meth! OK, it wasn’t crystal meth. I mean, it could have been crystal meth. But it was diamonds. It’s actually lobster pots.”
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Rex FeaturesOn Their New Album…
Tom: “We’re about eight tracks. I mean, we’ve done so many tracks. Because we all love writing as well, whether it’s for us or for any other people. So we’ve written about 30 tracks. We’ve got eight that we’re really happy with, and the others will get shipped off to other places and stuff. We’ve got another writing session in January, and then we’re looking to have the album out in March 2013.”
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Rex FeaturesOn Collaborating With Dappy On Bring It Home…
Tom: “Nathan did it. Nath said he was amazing…”
Jay: “They had lots of herbal spices there to relax them. Let’s call it incense.”
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Rex FeaturesOn Dueting With Chris Brown On The New Album…
Jay: “I think it’s a touchy subject, but when it comes to the actual album, it’s not one that I want to talk to him about at all. I mean, whether they [Rihanna and Chris Brown] are together or not, it’s probably none of our business. I mean…”
Tom: “The thing is… Whatever went on between them both, he still made music and people still bought his music. I mean, Beautiful People was one of the biggest songs of the year last year. He’s a great artist, do you know what I mean? I admire his music and him as an artist, not his personal life, so… I think for us, it’s more about the music than anything else.”
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Rex FeaturesOn Dueting With Justin Bieber On The New Album…
Tom: “Chris Brown is the most likely one. We’re going into the studio with him when we get back to LA next week to write. Justin… It could happen… I’m not ruling it out, but…”
Jay: “Neither side are really fighting for it…”
Siva: “We’re not really pushing it. Chris came up to us and said, ‘We’ve got to get in the studio.’ And that’s kind of the occasion when you can. But none of us have really moved to doing stuff with Justin. So, maybe in the future…”
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Rex FeaturesOn Their Rivalry With One Direction…
Jay: “I mean, there’s obviously mouth there. We used to try and have a bit of banter with them, and they kind of ignored it for a while. But I think now, with the fanbase growing, and it getting brought up what we said ages ago, I think they’ve let it rile them a little bit. Because they’ve been mouthing off quite a bit recently! At the end of the day though, it’s just words. It doesn’t really affect us. It’s not like we’re friends and all of a sudden it’s a shock and it’s like, ‘You stabbed me in the back!’ So, it’s just words. To be fair, it’s mainly Louis [Tomlinson] I think that seems to be mostly sniping…”
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Rex FeaturesOn Louis Tomlinson’s Recent Comments…
Jay: “I like how he’s quite passive-aggressive with everything. Like, before he says anything he says what we’ve done. But we’re going to see them in New York, we’re doing a gig with them in Madison Square Gardens, so I think let’s go to their dressing room and say, ‘Boys, so, what exactly have you heard? Here’s the truth, and here’s what we’ve heard…’”
Max: “I’d like to go up to Louis and go, ‘OK, so, if I was to say, ‘Yeah, let’s start the rivalry, me and you, right now, what are we going to do?’ What are YOU gonna do?’”
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Rex FeaturesOn Why Both Bands Have Been So Successful In The USA…
Jay: “They don’t have a national radio like the BBC here, so you can’t just get onto there and have it sorted. You have to go to every State, and every State has a different radio station. So, we slogged our guts out and the song just caught fire. I don’t know, they like the British accent thing. With 1D, they had the storm from being on The X Factor, and they had the old school Bieber hype, and they became instant celebrities. So, overall, it’s added to this whole British invasion thing that America is talking about all the time. Adele did it, Jessie J… Even Olly Murs is doing gigs out there. Even wonderful, wonderful Olly!”
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Rex FeaturesOn Unfair Perceptions People Have Of Them As A Boyband…
Jay: “I actually don’t mind that people think we’re… Not aggressive, but, what’s the word? Like, sometimes we speak our minds to the point where people will say, ‘Pipe down, that’s a bit offensive.’ I genuinely don’t mind that. I just don’t like people thinking we’re stupid. Even if we have really harsh opinions on people who we think are dicks, we think it for a reason. We’re not just saying it for the sake of it. We’re not just going, ‘Oh, aren’t we crazy, can we have a cover?’ I just don’t want people thinking we’re mindless idiots.”
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Rex FeaturesOn Nicole Scherzinger’s New X Factor Role…
Siva: “She’s a total babe…”
Jay: “She’s amazing. And she actually forms a coherent response after every single performance…”
Max: “Yeah, apart from when she’s pissed…’”
Jay: “So, I’m a fan…”
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Rex FeaturesOn Who They’re Backing To Win The X Factor…
Tom: “I really like James Arthur.”
Siva: “Who’s that?”
Jay: “The one who’s a bit like Plan B…”
Siva: “Oh yeah, he’s good. ”
Max: “I’m backing Union J. I think their vocals are really good, but they’re the only ones I’ve met and got to know a little bit, and I think they’re really nice. They’re great.”
Tom: “And Ella Henderson as well. She’s one of Tulisa’s acts ‘int she?”
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Rex FeaturesOn Planning Their Future Comeback, 1D-Style…
Jay: “We haven’t planned, like, a future comeback, but I think if we did part ways it would only ever be friendly, so I guess it could happen. But we haven’t planned that far ahead. I guess maybe they’re thinking of going into film or, erm…”
Max: “It might be like a Spice World thing…”
Jay: “Ha ha ha! I guess, like, they’ve done it all, you know what I mean? They’ve fully done the boyband thing. They are literally, like, do a few more years and then we’ll break up. And then we’ll get back together…”
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Rex FeaturesOn The Importance Of Longevity…
Max: “That’s the thing with us. We haven’t earned that much money in three years so to us this like just having a really decent job. So, like, this is something we have for life. It’s not like, ‘Well, we’ve made millions, we can go piss off and get some sand between our toes now.’ We’re in it for the long run and hopefully we’ll be stable for a long time after we’ve done it for a long time. I mean, if we earn millions in one year on the way, don’t get me wrong… Perfect. But it’s more like a very good job to us rather than, like, a lottery win.”
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Rex FeaturesOn What They Want To Happen In The Next Year…
Max: “Win the lottery. Ha! I wouldn’t mind that.”
Tom: “I’d like us to have a No.1 album in the States and over here. We got to No.7 in the States with our first album, and we’ve had No.4 and No.5 singles along the way, so a double No.1 would be cool.”
Jay: “I’d like someone to get a No.1 song with a song we’d written for them.”
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Rex FeaturesOn Their Ideal Person To Write A Song For…
Siva: “I think you’d be good at writing a song for a diva, Max. You’ve got that in you.”
Max: “Yeah? I write like a woman! Erm… Rihanna. Yeah. I’ll have Rihanna.”
Jay: “You’d definitely make some cash off of it, that’s for sure!”
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WennOn The One Person They’d Never Write A Song For…
Jay: “The Saturdays. I’m not into death metal and their style of music is too hardcore for me.”
The Wanted’s new single, I Found You, is out now…
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