April 29, 2024 • 19 mins
Celebrating her smash w Sonny Fodera hitting #1 on the dance charts, Becky Hill was awesome enough to chat w us before the final show of her UK tour, and shared how "Never Be Alone" was born. Plus who produced the original version of it, and how long ago they wrote it. She also shared how her latest song "Outside Of Love" was born, and who it was written about!
We also get to know Becky better w #FinkysFirsts!!
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We also get to know Becky better w #FinkysFirsts!!
Find out about:
- if music was the first thing she wanted to get into when she was growing up
- the first song she ever wrote
- the first time she ever performed
- the first thing she does on show days and the first thing she does after she's done performing
- the first thing she likes to do when she's finally alone
Follow: @AmericasDance30 on all socials!
Count down the biggest dance songs in the country every week with Brian Fink on America’s Dance 30; listen on stations around the world!
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(00:00):
All right, let me know wheneveryou're ready and we can start. Okay,
Becky, I just want to giveyou a heads up though that I'm
not really in a good emotional placeright now because I just watched the live
performance of Never Be Alone with alive instrumentation and listen to the acoustic version
(00:21):
they are so you did what itis made for that good. So I'm
just throwing that out there, andwhatever happens during this chat happens. Okay,
(00:42):
dance counting down the biggest dance songsin the country. This is America's
Dance thirty. Becky Hill. Firstof all, hair looks amazing, Thank
you very much. I'm getting readyfor my final show on the European tour,
(01:03):
so I've just done this will beshow ten out of ten tonight.
I've been to yeah, ten differentcities in about eleven days, twelve days.
So I'm glad you said I lookall right. I feel very disheveled.
Now you look great. But justa side note, that's where you're
(01:25):
supposed to say, oh, yourhair looks great too, What the hell,
Becky? Oh my fiance is abold man. I like a bold
man. Well, thank you,Becky Hill. Welcome back to America's Dan's
thirty. Thank you for having meback. I'm so excited to be here.
I can't believe we're just talking aboutthe fact that it's been over two
(01:49):
years since we've chatted. How haveyou been crazy? Right? Yeah,
I've been. I've been on theverge of a mental breakdown, but we
move. I'm really excited to havefinished the album and the album's coming out
in the thirty first of May,which feels really great. I've released a
couple of singles so far which peopleseem to be resonating with, which is
(02:13):
always great. And yeah, thisyear is all about touring, so I've
been hearing lots of singing. Haveyou been okay, I've been good.
I'm actually training. So tomorrow I'mtaking part in a charity bike ride where
I'm doing seventy five miles in oneday. Yeah, wow, one day
in one day. It's bike ms. It's insane. You have to pedal
(02:37):
for that, like Fred Flintstone kindof peddling. So the first time I
ever did it, I did iton like a crappy bike that I just
bought it like a department store,and that was tough. But now I've
got a road bike, so it'sa lot easier to do it. But
it's like it's a good four anda half five hours in the saddle,
which is crazy. Yeah, you'regonna have a sore bomb after I will,
(03:01):
but we don't need to talk aboutthat. Lucas's talk about celebrating Never
Be Alone going number one. Congratulations, Thank you so much. This is
such a big honor for me.Thank you so much. That's so incredible
And I can't wait to talk abouthow the song was born with Sonny Fodera.
(03:22):
And I also want to talk aboutyour latest song Outside of Love because
the lyrics are so heartbreaking, soI definitely want to talk about that.
But first let's get to know BeckyHill a little better with Thinky's First.
Okay, take a deep breath.I always love finding out the origin story
(03:51):
of artists. Now, I knowthat you started with music at a really
young age, and then you alsotried out for the voice. OK.
Correct, that is correct? Yes, But when you were growing up,
was music the first thing you wantedto get into or was there something else
you wanted to be I was veryconfused. I knew I wanted to perform
(04:13):
in some way. I always hadactor in my mind. But I do
have a memory of being around theage of I must have in about three
and watching a UK show called Topof the Pops. Do you know about
Top of the Pops? I don't, so it doesn't exist anymore. There's
very limited number of music shows.But Top of the Pops used to be
(04:35):
the TV show that was on everySaturday, and it would have live performances,
well live performances. They were alwaysmine, but they always used to
have live performances from the artists inthe charts. And I remember watching SONIEK,
who did one of the biggest classicdance records Feels So Good. Yeah,
(04:57):
I'd say definitely in my lifetime.And I remember just stood at the
TV with my hands on the tellyand just being completely absorbed by it.
So I think I always knew.Now, did you ever get a chance
to meet Soniq? No, butI would love to. That would be
epic. We need to make thathappen. I haven't. And I was
playing her song live on the radio. That's how long I've been in radio.
(05:23):
Wow, Well you don't look atday over thirty babe. Thanks.
It's the hair I think does wondersfor a man. Well, I appreciate
that. Now, as I mentioned, you started in music really early,
and as you mentioned, you've gotyour album coming out the end of May,
which is incredible. But do youremember the first song you ever wrote?
(05:45):
Yes, I do share. SoI was thirteen and I wrote through
There were three songs. I can'tremember all do they came in, but
it was a song called hold myHand, it was a song called Gremlins,
and what was the third one?I gotta know about gremlins though.
Gremlins was three chords and it wasall about I think the lyrics were I
(06:11):
got demons in my mind taking overmy brain. It was very angsty,
but in a very happy sing asong right away. Did it have any
lyrics about putting them in the microwaveor keeping them up after midnight? Them
dry? And yeah, no itwasn't. I'm a little bit too young
for the film watched. I havewatched it. It is such a classic.
(06:44):
Now you have performed all over theworld. Of course you're wrapping your
tour now. I think you're goingto be coming to the US later as
well. Later on this year.Absolutely, I'm doing a few US shows
which I'm so excited. I thinkwe I think we put it on Soe
and San Francisco sold out within theday, So yeah, it's it seems
(07:04):
to be like a it seems tobe quite a hot ticket. So that
feels that feels lovely to feel sowell received. That's got to be incredible.
And then you just announced your intimateperformances that you're going to be doing
in support of your album later thisyear. Yeah, so those will be
mainly UK based, England based,but yeah, I'm excited to I'm excited
(07:28):
to play some of the album tracks. I've got an arena tour in the
UK coming up, but I definitelywant to start getting across the pond and
seeing you guys and and playing.You will have to come to a show.
I will have to. I'll talkto Niles about that. Now.
Do you remember the first time youever performed. Yes, I was eleven
years old. I was in thelocal youth club and I was supposed to
(07:56):
do some like comedy thing with twoof my friends and they pulled out,
and I remember feeling really guilty,and I felt like I couldn't let anybody
down. Nobody cared, but Ifelt like I felt like I couldn't let
anybody down. So I stood upon stage and I sang Jojo Leave Get
Out Classic and my parents are inthe audience, and my parents still like
(08:20):
to till it to this day thatthey had all of these parents staring at
them as if to be like,did you know she could do that?
And I remember afterwards they I mean, I'd kept it quite the secret.
And I remember my parents talking andbeing like, should we send it to
brit School? But we didn't haveany money and we lived nowhere near London
(08:43):
where the brit School is. Somy mom, I'll never forget this.
My mom said to me, well, said to my dad. She said,
if music is meant for her,music will find her. And luckily
it did. That is so incredible, And she of course remember all that.
Yeah, I mean it was justas surprising to them. I've just
(09:03):
kind of been like humming under mybreath in my bedroom and then all of
a sudden and they're singing rifts ofJojo, who is one of the best
vocalists of our generation. That isamazing. Now, speaking of performances and
with you being on the tour rightnow, what's normally the first thing you
do on show days, and what'sthe first thing you do when you get
(09:24):
done performing? So I'd always tryand find a spa like a steam room.
I think it's really really important totry and relax as much as possible
and also make sure my vocal cordshave had some sort of steam passing through
them a few hours before the gig. And what I've started doing now which
(09:46):
has alleviated a lot of stress.But I'll get in the cab, I'll
go to the show about fifteen minutesbefore I'll go on stage, I'll do
the show, and as I finishedthe last song, I'll get straight back
into a cab and go to Wow. Do you know why? Because firstly,
I spend far too long talking tofans, and secondly, the people
(10:11):
I tour with my musicians love todrink and you want to get out.
Yeah, I'm easily tempted, soI have to get away from them as
quick as possible. The Irish goodbyesmart very much. That yeah, great
show everyone, and then be's outnow. Finally, in honor of never
(10:35):
being alone, going number one,what is the first thing you like to
do when you finally get alone?Let me rephrase that, when you finally
get in the cab and you're byyourself. Okay, I'm good, great,
great, great, glad you rephrasedthat I I have to do a
(10:58):
vocal warm down, so I haveto stretch my noise, and I stretch
my voice through doing all these weirdand wonderful noises. So usually when I
get in the cab, I'm alwayslike, excuse me, cab driver,
you will hear some very odd noisescoming from the back. My singing teacher,
I've got a little recording of himactually directing me through the call downs,
(11:20):
and he calls it soppy blowfish.So I have to do this soppy
blowfish, which sounds a little bitlike this. So all of those very
weird noises in the back of acab. So that's what I do as
soon as I get I get sometime, so I've actually never now,
(11:43):
of course, with working out ordoing any kind of activity, you got
to stretch afterwards. But this isthe first time I've heard about doing vocal
work downs. Is that supposed tobe really good for your voice as well?
Yeah, it's essentially when you becausemy song's are not easy to sing,
and it's like and especially never bealone, that song is so hard
(12:05):
to sing, and actually outside ofLove is really difficult, even harder.
Right, So when you do anhour and a half on stage, your
vocal folds really tighten up, sowhen you come off stage you have to
like run through your range to stretchthem all out and bring them back down
to being a bit more relaxed.Otherwise they just stay tight and it makes
(12:28):
the next show really difficult. Imight have to start doing that because obviously
I use my voice a lot toobeing in radio, so I might have
to start doing that retally. It'syour money maker absolutely. Now, speaking
of your songs being difficult to sing, do you ever regret writing songs with
notes that they are? Yes,I do, yes, but every show
(12:50):
I regret writing songs that big.But also I kind of love the challenge,
and I pride myself on being agreat vocalist live. Like the amount
of artists I've seen that sound amazingin the studio and on studio records,
and then you see them live andyou're like, oh, there's a lot
(13:11):
of backing track there, you know. I make sure that I try my
best to sound as close to thestudio version, if not better than the
studio version when I'm live. Ijust feel like it gives people the proper
experience. Absolutely, And I've watcheda lot of your acoustic stuff and you
do an amazing job at that.So congratulations. Let's talk about this number
(13:46):
one. How was Never Be Alone? Born with Sunny Fardera. So I
work a lot with a woman calledKaren Paul. Now, for anybody that
remembers Karen Paul, she was ina band with her sister called Alicia's Attic
in the nineties might have just beena UK thing. But Karen then started
(14:09):
being a songwriter and she wrote oneof my favorite dance records of all time,
which is Lola's Theme by the ShapeShifters. Oh wow, huge record,
and went on to write for Kylieand loads of other artists. And
I'm glad I didn't know this whenI first met her, so I'd have
been very scared. But she andI started writing together in it and it
(14:31):
was a much made in heaven betweenus. Me and Karen are responsible for
Remember by Me and David Gheta.Me and Karen are responsible for Disconnect with
Chasing Status, and we're actually responsiblefor Never Be Alone. It was just
us two as well, So wewere sent over the original track by Solado
(14:54):
and then we wrote never Be Alone, and then it was it just didn't
sound quite right for a couple ofyears that we were playing it live,
and then we sent it to Sonnyand Sunny just completely transformed it into the
record that you hear now. AndI was very grateful that he came on
(15:15):
the record because it was almost likehe knew exactly what to do to make
this record sound as good as itdoes now. That's so incredible. And
you say a few years of performingalive, how long ago did you guys
start working on it? So it'sjust after Lockdown and if you listen to
the lyrics, it's all about beingaway from people that you love and having
(15:35):
people kind of losing their minds inlockdown and feeling so isolated from their friends
and not being able to connect withothers. So yeah, I think we
wrote it back in twenty twenty one. That is incredible. Well, congratulations
on it going number one. Let'stalk really quickly about the latest song Outside
of Love. Like I mentioned,some of the lyrics are just so heartbreaking.
(15:58):
It One of my favorites is shouldwe admit that I'm not enough.
I mean, oh my god,that is like a dagger to the heart.
How was that song born? SoI had a writing session with Mike
Kintish, who is responsible for asong of mine called I could get used
to this, Charlotte Hayning, whois responsible for a song of mine called
(16:21):
My Heart Goes. So I've workedwith these two people for a very long
time and I was very close tothem, and we've written a lot of
songs together. And I worked withItalian duo Brothers Parisi the first time.
I was huge fans of that.And anyway, I'd kind of started off
this week being like everything's amazing,I'm so in love, like me and
(16:42):
my fiance getting on really well.And by day three everything had changed.
So all of a sudden, Iwas going in and I was like,
he's just not speaking to me,He's not letting me in. It feels
like everything I say and do irritateshim. I think he might be falling
out of love with me. AndI could see Mike just in the corner
(17:03):
typing it all down, and wewrote the story together. But they wrote
it in such a way that wascapturing everything that I wanted to say.
And it just it told the storybeautifully, and I think I couldn't really
put those feelings into words at thetime, and that story, that song
(17:26):
encapsulated the story for me quite alot. And I found myself feeling like
that quite a lot, not justwithin my relationship, but when I go
to parties and I'm stood with aload of people and I still feel desperately
lonely because I don't feel like Iconnect with people. And you know,
and I think this song, thisis a concept that I haven't really heard
(17:51):
written in a quote unquote dance songforever. Really, you know, this
idea that you could be so inlove with somebody but still feel so far
away from them even though they satnext to you. And I you know,
I really hope that other people resonateto this record because it really helped
me through quite a lot of quitea lot of dark times. It really
is fine. By the way we'restilling, did you play it for him
(18:15):
and tell him that it was originallyabout him? I didn't have to tell
him, babe, I didn't haveto tell him. He knew. I
saw the video that you posted ofyou singing at a cappella. I think
it was in Berlin, I wantto say, and all the tourists are
just walking around you. They haveno idea. And you know what,
(18:37):
as I was finishing recording that,we were getting back in the car and
I heard Becky, Oh my god, Becky Hell, Becky Hill, and
I was like, oh my god, German fans. They were actually Irish,
and I thought, you go allthe way to Berlin and you still
meet Irish people. And they weresuch sweet girls and they actually came to
the Berlin show the other day,so so it was really cute to bump
(18:59):
into those girls. That is soincredible. Well, congratulations on everything you
got going on, not only thenumber one, not only your new stuff,
not only your album coming out theend of May, your tour and
the intimate shows. Becky. Ican't thank you enough for taking time to
chat with us. Thank you forbeing listen. The pleasure is all mine
(19:22):
and it's so good to speak toyou after so long. And thank you
so much for having me on totalk about my new music. It really
means the world, So thank youso much. And make sure I'll put
you on guest list, make sureyou come down to the next New Yorkshire.
I will definitely be there. Thankyou so much for your time with
us on America's Dance thirty. America'sDance thirty counting down the biggest dance songs
(19:42):
in the country. America's Dance thirty
All right, let me know wheneveryou're ready and we can start. Okay,
Becky, I just want to giveyou a heads up though that I'm
not really in a good emotional placeright now because I just watched the live
performance of Never Be Alone with alive instrumentation and listen to the acoustic version
(00:21):
they are so you did what itis made for that good. So I'm
just throwing that out there, andwhatever happens during this chat happens. Okay,
(00:42):
dance counting down the biggest dance songsin the country. This is America's
Dance thirty. Becky Hill. Firstof all, hair looks amazing, Thank
you very much. I'm getting readyfor my final show on the European tour,
(01:03):
so I've just done this will beshow ten out of ten tonight.
I've been to yeah, ten differentcities in about eleven days, twelve days.
So I'm glad you said I lookall right. I feel very disheveled.
Now you look great. But justa side note, that's where you're
(01:25):
supposed to say, oh, yourhair looks great too, What the hell,
Becky? Oh my fiance is abold man. I like a bold
man. Well, thank you,Becky Hill. Welcome back to America's Dan's
thirty. Thank you for having meback. I'm so excited to be here.
I can't believe we're just talking aboutthe fact that it's been over two
(01:49):
years since we've chatted. How haveyou been crazy? Right? Yeah,
I've been. I've been on theverge of a mental breakdown, but we
move. I'm really excited to havefinished the album and the album's coming out
in the thirty first of May,which feels really great. I've released a
couple of singles so far which peopleseem to be resonating with, which is
(02:13):
always great. And yeah, thisyear is all about touring, so I've
been hearing lots of singing. Haveyou been okay, I've been good.
I'm actually training. So tomorrow I'mtaking part in a charity bike ride where
I'm doing seventy five miles in oneday. Yeah, wow, one day
in one day. It's bike ms. It's insane. You have to pedal
(02:37):
for that, like Fred Flintstone kindof peddling. So the first time I
ever did it, I did iton like a crappy bike that I just
bought it like a department store,and that was tough. But now I've
got a road bike, so it'sa lot easier to do it. But
it's like it's a good four anda half five hours in the saddle,
which is crazy. Yeah, you'regonna have a sore bomb after I will,
(03:01):
but we don't need to talk aboutthat. Lucas's talk about celebrating Never
Be Alone going number one. Congratulations, Thank you so much. This is
such a big honor for me.Thank you so much. That's so incredible
And I can't wait to talk abouthow the song was born with Sonny Fodera.
(03:22):
And I also want to talk aboutyour latest song Outside of Love because
the lyrics are so heartbreaking, soI definitely want to talk about that.
But first let's get to know BeckyHill a little better with Thinky's First.
Okay, take a deep breath.I always love finding out the origin story
(03:51):
of artists. Now, I knowthat you started with music at a really
young age, and then you alsotried out for the voice. OK.
Correct, that is correct? Yes, But when you were growing up,
was music the first thing you wantedto get into or was there something else
you wanted to be I was veryconfused. I knew I wanted to perform
(04:13):
in some way. I always hadactor in my mind. But I do
have a memory of being around theage of I must have in about three
and watching a UK show called Topof the Pops. Do you know about
Top of the Pops? I don't, so it doesn't exist anymore. There's
very limited number of music shows.But Top of the Pops used to be
(04:35):
the TV show that was on everySaturday, and it would have live performances,
well live performances. They were alwaysmine, but they always used to
have live performances from the artists inthe charts. And I remember watching SONIEK,
who did one of the biggest classicdance records Feels So Good. Yeah,
(04:57):
I'd say definitely in my lifetime.And I remember just stood at the
TV with my hands on the tellyand just being completely absorbed by it.
So I think I always knew.Now, did you ever get a chance
to meet Soniq? No, butI would love to. That would be
epic. We need to make thathappen. I haven't. And I was
playing her song live on the radio. That's how long I've been in radio.
(05:23):
Wow, Well you don't look atday over thirty babe. Thanks.
It's the hair I think does wondersfor a man. Well, I appreciate
that. Now, as I mentioned, you started in music really early,
and as you mentioned, you've gotyour album coming out the end of May,
which is incredible. But do youremember the first song you ever wrote?
(05:45):
Yes, I do share. SoI was thirteen and I wrote through
There were three songs. I can'tremember all do they came in, but
it was a song called hold myHand, it was a song called Gremlins,
and what was the third one?I gotta know about gremlins though.
Gremlins was three chords and it wasall about I think the lyrics were I
(06:11):
got demons in my mind taking overmy brain. It was very angsty,
but in a very happy sing asong right away. Did it have any
lyrics about putting them in the microwaveor keeping them up after midnight? Them
dry? And yeah, no itwasn't. I'm a little bit too young
for the film watched. I havewatched it. It is such a classic.
(06:44):
Now you have performed all over theworld. Of course you're wrapping your
tour now. I think you're goingto be coming to the US later as
well. Later on this year.Absolutely, I'm doing a few US shows
which I'm so excited. I thinkwe I think we put it on Soe
and San Francisco sold out within theday, So yeah, it's it seems
(07:04):
to be like a it seems tobe quite a hot ticket. So that
feels that feels lovely to feel sowell received. That's got to be incredible.
And then you just announced your intimateperformances that you're going to be doing
in support of your album later thisyear. Yeah, so those will be
mainly UK based, England based,but yeah, I'm excited to I'm excited
(07:28):
to play some of the album tracks. I've got an arena tour in the
UK coming up, but I definitelywant to start getting across the pond and
seeing you guys and and playing.You will have to come to a show.
I will have to. I'll talkto Niles about that. Now.
Do you remember the first time youever performed. Yes, I was eleven
years old. I was in thelocal youth club and I was supposed to
(07:56):
do some like comedy thing with twoof my friends and they pulled out,
and I remember feeling really guilty,and I felt like I couldn't let anybody
down. Nobody cared, but Ifelt like I felt like I couldn't let
anybody down. So I stood upon stage and I sang Jojo Leave Get
Out Classic and my parents are inthe audience, and my parents still like
(08:20):
to till it to this day thatthey had all of these parents staring at
them as if to be like,did you know she could do that?
And I remember afterwards they I mean, I'd kept it quite the secret.
And I remember my parents talking andbeing like, should we send it to
brit School? But we didn't haveany money and we lived nowhere near London
(08:43):
where the brit School is. Somy mom, I'll never forget this.
My mom said to me, well, said to my dad. She said,
if music is meant for her,music will find her. And luckily
it did. That is so incredible, And she of course remember all that.
Yeah, I mean it was justas surprising to them. I've just
(09:03):
kind of been like humming under mybreath in my bedroom and then all of
a sudden and they're singing rifts ofJojo, who is one of the best
vocalists of our generation. That isamazing. Now, speaking of performances and
with you being on the tour rightnow, what's normally the first thing you
do on show days, and what'sthe first thing you do when you get
(09:24):
done performing? So I'd always tryand find a spa like a steam room.
I think it's really really important totry and relax as much as possible
and also make sure my vocal cordshave had some sort of steam passing through
them a few hours before the gig. And what I've started doing now which
(09:46):
has alleviated a lot of stress.But I'll get in the cab, I'll
go to the show about fifteen minutesbefore I'll go on stage, I'll do
the show, and as I finishedthe last song, I'll get straight back
into a cab and go to Wow. Do you know why? Because firstly,
I spend far too long talking tofans, and secondly, the people
(10:11):
I tour with my musicians love todrink and you want to get out.
Yeah, I'm easily tempted, soI have to get away from them as
quick as possible. The Irish goodbyesmart very much. That yeah, great
show everyone, and then be's outnow. Finally, in honor of never
(10:35):
being alone, going number one,what is the first thing you like to
do when you finally get alone?Let me rephrase that, when you finally
get in the cab and you're byyourself. Okay, I'm good, great,
great, great, glad you rephrasedthat I I have to do a
(10:58):
vocal warm down, so I haveto stretch my noise, and I stretch
my voice through doing all these weirdand wonderful noises. So usually when I
get in the cab, I'm alwayslike, excuse me, cab driver,
you will hear some very odd noisescoming from the back. My singing teacher,
I've got a little recording of himactually directing me through the call downs,
(11:20):
and he calls it soppy blowfish.So I have to do this soppy
blowfish, which sounds a little bitlike this. So all of those very
weird noises in the back of acab. So that's what I do as
soon as I get I get sometime, so I've actually never now,
(11:43):
of course, with working out ordoing any kind of activity, you got
to stretch afterwards. But this isthe first time I've heard about doing vocal
work downs. Is that supposed tobe really good for your voice as well?
Yeah, it's essentially when you becausemy song's are not easy to sing,
and it's like and especially never bealone, that song is so hard
(12:05):
to sing, and actually outside ofLove is really difficult, even harder.
Right, So when you do anhour and a half on stage, your
vocal folds really tighten up, sowhen you come off stage you have to
like run through your range to stretchthem all out and bring them back down
to being a bit more relaxed.Otherwise they just stay tight and it makes
(12:28):
the next show really difficult. Imight have to start doing that because obviously
I use my voice a lot toobeing in radio, so I might have
to start doing that retally. It'syour money maker absolutely. Now, speaking
of your songs being difficult to sing, do you ever regret writing songs with
notes that they are? Yes,I do, yes, but every show
(12:50):
I regret writing songs that big.But also I kind of love the challenge,
and I pride myself on being agreat vocalist live. Like the amount
of artists I've seen that sound amazingin the studio and on studio records,
and then you see them live andyou're like, oh, there's a lot
(13:11):
of backing track there, you know. I make sure that I try my
best to sound as close to thestudio version, if not better than the
studio version when I'm live. Ijust feel like it gives people the proper
experience. Absolutely, And I've watcheda lot of your acoustic stuff and you
do an amazing job at that.So congratulations. Let's talk about this number
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one. How was Never Be Alone? Born with Sunny Fardera. So I
work a lot with a woman calledKaren Paul. Now, for anybody that
remembers Karen Paul, she was ina band with her sister called Alicia's Attic
in the nineties might have just beena UK thing. But Karen then started
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being a songwriter and she wrote oneof my favorite dance records of all time,
which is Lola's Theme by the ShapeShifters. Oh wow, huge record,
and went on to write for Kylieand loads of other artists. And
I'm glad I didn't know this whenI first met her, so I'd have
been very scared. But she andI started writing together in it and it
(14:31):
was a much made in heaven betweenus. Me and Karen are responsible for
Remember by Me and David Gheta.Me and Karen are responsible for Disconnect with
Chasing Status, and we're actually responsiblefor Never Be Alone. It was just
us two as well, So wewere sent over the original track by Solado
(14:54):
and then we wrote never Be Alone, and then it was it just didn't
sound quite right for a couple ofyears that we were playing it live,
and then we sent it to Sonnyand Sunny just completely transformed it into the
record that you hear now. AndI was very grateful that he came on
(15:15):
the record because it was almost likehe knew exactly what to do to make
this record sound as good as itdoes now. That's so incredible. And
you say a few years of performingalive, how long ago did you guys
start working on it? So it'sjust after Lockdown and if you listen to
the lyrics, it's all about beingaway from people that you love and having
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people kind of losing their minds inlockdown and feeling so isolated from their friends
and not being able to connect withothers. So yeah, I think we
wrote it back in twenty twenty one. That is incredible. Well, congratulations
on it going number one. Let'stalk really quickly about the latest song Outside
of Love. Like I mentioned,some of the lyrics are just so heartbreaking.
(15:58):
It One of my favorites is shouldwe admit that I'm not enough.
I mean, oh my god,that is like a dagger to the heart.
How was that song born? SoI had a writing session with Mike
Kintish, who is responsible for asong of mine called I could get used
to this, Charlotte Hayning, whois responsible for a song of mine called
(16:21):
My Heart Goes. So I've workedwith these two people for a very long
time and I was very close tothem, and we've written a lot of
songs together. And I worked withItalian duo Brothers Parisi the first time.
I was huge fans of that.And anyway, I'd kind of started off
this week being like everything's amazing,I'm so in love, like me and
(16:42):
my fiance getting on really well.And by day three everything had changed.
So all of a sudden, Iwas going in and I was like,
he's just not speaking to me,He's not letting me in. It feels
like everything I say and do irritateshim. I think he might be falling
out of love with me. AndI could see Mike just in the corner
(17:03):
typing it all down, and wewrote the story together. But they wrote
it in such a way that wascapturing everything that I wanted to say.
And it just it told the storybeautifully, and I think I couldn't really
put those feelings into words at thetime, and that story, that song
(17:26):
encapsulated the story for me quite alot. And I found myself feeling like
that quite a lot, not justwithin my relationship, but when I go
to parties and I'm stood with aload of people and I still feel desperately
lonely because I don't feel like Iconnect with people. And you know,
and I think this song, thisis a concept that I haven't really heard
(17:51):
written in a quote unquote dance songforever. Really, you know, this
idea that you could be so inlove with somebody but still feel so far
away from them even though they satnext to you. And I you know,
I really hope that other people resonateto this record because it really helped
me through quite a lot of quitea lot of dark times. It really
is fine. By the way we'restilling, did you play it for him
(18:15):
and tell him that it was originallyabout him? I didn't have to tell
him, babe, I didn't haveto tell him. He knew. I
saw the video that you posted ofyou singing at a cappella. I think
it was in Berlin, I wantto say, and all the tourists are
just walking around you. They haveno idea. And you know what,
(18:37):
as I was finishing recording that,we were getting back in the car and
I heard Becky, Oh my god, Becky Hell, Becky Hill, and
I was like, oh my god, German fans. They were actually Irish,
and I thought, you go allthe way to Berlin and you still
meet Irish people. And they weresuch sweet girls and they actually came to
the Berlin show the other day,so so it was really cute to bump
(18:59):
into those girls. That is soincredible. Well, congratulations on everything you
got going on, not only thenumber one, not only your new stuff,
not only your album coming out theend of May, your tour and
the intimate shows. Becky. Ican't thank you enough for taking time to
chat with us. Thank you forbeing listen. The pleasure is all mine
(19:22):
and it's so good to speak toyou after so long. And thank you
so much for having me on totalk about my new music. It really
means the world, So thank youso much. And make sure I'll put
you on guest list, make sureyou come down to the next New Yorkshire.
I will definitely be there. Thankyou so much for your time with
us on America's Dance thirty. America'sDance thirty counting down the biggest dance songs
(19:42):
in the country. America's Dance thirty
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