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<\/a><\/p>\nFearlessly original, imaginative and instantly gravitational – Shannon Saunders is carving out her very own lane of crystalline pop with the release of her debut single \u2018Silly Little Things\u2019 on 24th November.<\/p>\n
Backed by dance-infused, house-filtered beats, Shannon\u2019s feisty cool vocals bounce around the crisp melodic hooks, coating the electro-savvy arrangements to create a sound that is very much her own yet confidently reminiscent.\u00a0New song \u2018Silly Little Things\u2019 is a bouncy, almost static, ditty, with modern production stylings reminiscent of Disclosure and Gorgon City. There\u2019s something enchanting about the light splutters of synths that cascade in the background. Saunders is one to keen your eyes on in 2015 for sure.<\/p>\n
Tell us a bit about your journey? Where did it all begin with you?<\/b><\/p>\n
I used to post videos of me singing covers at first and then built a little following and started sharing my own material on there, which eventually got more views than the covers. I think that\u2019s when I caught the bug of being an artist and not just a songwriter. I wanted to share my music and tell the stories I\u2019d been writing in my songs by performing them myself. I love learning about the music business, I learn something new from different situations I\u2019m put in every day. I make sure I\u2019m involved in every decision made about my music and career. It\u2019s very important to have creative control.<\/p>\n
When did you first really decide that you didn\u2019t want to do anything else – music was the path \/ direction for you?<\/b><\/p>\n
I left school at 16 and went to a music university called BIMM in Bristol where I studied a diploma in song writing. I wanted to get some qualifications under my belt to be sensible and have something to fall back on just in case the music thing didn\u2019t work out. I felt at the time it was the best decision because I was still writing and learning about my craft. I was working with writers in London anyway so I took a chance and left after the first year. I trusted my gut instinct.<\/p>\n
What were your main inspirations or influences as you were growing up? What other musicians made you want to be an artist<\/b>?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s funny because I\u2019ve never really been the kind of girl to have posters of artists on my wall or be a fan girl of anyone. The reason I started playing around with songs on a guitar was because my Mum\u2019s friend Claire used to sing in pubs with her acoustic guitar and I\u2019d sit and watch her completely in awe. She inspired me to start teaching myself guitar and then gradually performing what I\u2019d learnt to anyone who would listen.<\/p>\n
Tell us more about Silly Little Things?<\/b><\/p>\n
I wrote Silly Little Things when I was going through a break up and was just a bit fed up of the situation I was in with that guy. It\u2019s a bit of a \u2018fuck you\u2019 song which I quite like and it was definitely a bit of a wake-up call to me to realise how unhappy I was at the time. I could tell everything was changing as I wasn\u2019t writing the usual love songs I would write about us. It\u2019s funny how your emotions really do affect the songs you write during certain periods in your life.<\/p>\n