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<\/a><\/p>\n“Jealous” was arguably one of the best tracks to emerge from any popstar last year, and his follow-up, brooding banger “Chains”, is hot on its heels. With two certified US smashes under his belt and a what looks like a third in the pipeline with rumoured new single Teacher, we sat down with Nick and got the insight into how he put the album together track-by-track.<\/p>\n
First up, Chains:<\/b><\/p>\n
I had about four songs done and I wanted to see where the record would go. My A&R guy played me Chains and I just fell in love with it and I think it’s the perfect song to introduce the record with.<\/p>\n
Next is the UK smash hit Jealous:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
Jealous came out of a real life situation. I was out with my girlfriend and this guy kept staring over while we were eating, to the point where it was rude and disrespectful. I’m not usually a jealous person, but I was that night. The next day I went into the studio and I wrote jealous as a way to essentially deal with the emotion I was feeling…and it ended up becoming a very important song in my career.<\/p>\n
How about Wilderness?<\/b><\/p>\n
Another song that came in that I heard and fell in love with, although I tweaked it a bit to make it my own. It marries the sound between my previous records and gels those rock elements with the pop\/soul stuff that I’m creating now.<\/p>\n
Next up, Robin Thick-style banger Teacher:<\/b><\/p>\n
When making a record I thought it was really important to be thinking about a song that people want to dance to, and this song is that song. It’s that feeling of having a good time. it’s one of my favourite songs to play live and it’s going to be a single at some point.<\/p>\n
How was the filming the video for that?<\/b><\/p>\n
Yeah, there’s a lyric video that was so much fun to make actually. We painted on a bunch of models…which is always a good time! [Laughs] It was sort of a real, hang out party with a lot of really hot people – like something out of Zoolander. It was very bizarre!<\/p>\n
Next up, Wilderness – which I think should be a single by the way!<\/b><\/p>\n
Oh, well thank you! One of the writers on this, Sam Martin, has done a lot of stuff with David Guetta and Maroon 5, so it was really great to work with him. He let me tweak it a bit to help make it my own and I think the lyrics on this are brilliant and I also hope it’s going to be a single!<\/p>\n
What about Take Over?<\/b><\/p>\n
Take Over reminds of the old Outkast jams, which was kind of a big inspiration for me.<\/p>\n