{"id":44027,"date":"2015-02-03T16:31:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T16:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=44027"},"modified":"2017-03-01T12:26:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T12:26:52","slug":"new-noise-marlon-roudette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2015\/02\/03\/new-noise-marlon-roudette\/","title":{"rendered":"New Noise: Marlon Roudette"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marlon Roudette is no stranger to the pop game. In fact, not only does he come from a musical background, but he\u2019s also been in a group, released solo material and had number one hits all over the world.<\/p>\n

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So you might be asking why you\u2019ve not heard of him? Well, us Brits have been cruel to Marlon, but that hasn\u2019t stopped him from trying to crack his home country. Signing a deal with SyCo (the home of Simon Cowell\u2019s music empire), Marlon is prepping for the release of \u2018When The Beat Drops Out\u2019, a fresh approach to the saturated pop house genre; a song that almost drops but reins it in, leaving subtitles, emotions and plenty of yearning.<\/p>\n

We caught up with Marlon to talk about signing to SyCo, songwriting woes and his determination to crack the UK.<\/p>\n

Hi Marlon Roudette. How are you?<\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019m well, thanks.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s get started. You’re the second non-competition winner to be signed to Syco. How did that happen?<\/b><\/p>\n

It’s cool actually. We’d finished the record and ‘When The Beat Drops Out’ was an amazing smash for us in Europe. Syco heard about it through that, really. I think, for me, it was great knowing that Labrinth was already there and able to execute his creative vision. I realised that I’d be signing to a different side to Syco, but of course still with their infrastructure, which is amazing. I was quite flattered that they wanted it so badly.<\/p>\n

I think if it had been me, I would have been a bit nervous.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

I’m like that with every label. But you have to go with your gut. From the first meeting with them they’d really listened to the record and peeled back the layers and lived with it, which is more than can say for a lot of the labels that we spoke to. They just talked the most sense. It was a scary but exciting step for me.<\/p>\n

Was ‘When The Beat Drops Out’ the first thing that you’d written for the album?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Not at all. I’d written that at the end of a really difficult creative period, banging my head against a brick wall with the writing. I was in LA not quite certain of my direction and feeling a bit intimidated by that whole LA songwriter scene, which can be quite brutal. After a couple of months of that I sat down with Jamie Hartman, who’s a friend of mine as well as a co-writer, and he said, “let’s just have a jam.” And it seems that all the hard work that lead up to that worked itself out in a few hours. It was written so quickly and it was such an effortless writing process. The production was more of a nightmare.<\/p>\n