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"She&amp;#039;s already proved she can pull off a power ballady duet (&amp;#039;No Air&amp;#039;), a midtempo R&amp;amp;B track (&amp;#039;Tattoo&amp;#039;) and a crashing great slab of soft rock (&amp;#039;Battlefield&amp;#039;), but now Jordin Sparks is trying something completely different. Her new single &amp;#039;SOS (Let The Music Play)&amp;#039; is a sassy dance-pop stomper built around a sample from Shannon&amp;#039;s 1983 classic... thwack! &amp;#039;Let The Music Play&amp;#039;. Keen to find out how the dancefloor&amp;#039;s treating her, we called Jordin for a chat. Have you enjoyed trying something different with &amp;#039;SOS&amp;#039;? &amp;quot;Yeah, I loved experimenting with it because I haven&amp;#039;t really done anything this dance-pop before. This is the first single I&amp;#039;ve put out that I can imagine being played in a club. When my A&amp;amp;R first played it to me, he said, &amp;#039;It&amp;#039;s got a Shannon sample in it&amp;#039;, but I didn&amp;#039;t know the sample because I wasn&amp;#039;t actually born when &amp;#039;Let The Music Play&amp;#039; came out! I loved the track right off the bat though.&amp;quot; Are you a big clubber? &amp;quot;Oh yeah, I love it! When I go out clubbing I can dance &amp;#039;til three o&amp;#039;clock in the morning with just a water bottle in my hand. I love dancing to anything with a good beat really. My favourite song to dance to at the moment is probably Drake&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Best I Ever Had&amp;#039;. The last time I was in a club everyone got really excited when that song came on.&amp;quot; Would you dance to &amp;#039;SOS&amp;#039; if it came on in a club? &amp;quot;Haha! It would probably depend on who I was with. If I was with friends and they were really excited for me, I&amp;#039;d love to have a dance to it! But I was with a group of new people, I&amp;#039;d probably be a bit more cautious. I might kinda say, &amp;#039;Oh yeah, that&amp;#039;s my song&amp;#039; but not really dance along.&amp;quot; Are you pleased with how the album&amp;#039;s been received? &amp;quot;I really am! I didn&amp;#039;t want to assume that people would like my new material, but my fans have been really enthusiastic. I had more time to work on this album than I did with my first one, so I had a chance to live out the songs and really feel them. When I put them all together I was really proud with what I&amp;#039;d got. I don&amp;#039;t go out there looking for reviews, but my label will send me some over so I can see what the overall consensus is. It&amp;#039;s been mostly positive luckily.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;Battlefield&amp;#039; was a top ten hit in the US and nearly a top ten hit in the UK, but are you disappointed it didn&amp;#039;t do better? Lots of pop fans thought it could be No.1. &amp;quot;Oh, thank you! &amp;#039;Battlefield&amp;#039; was one of those slow-building songs the way &amp;#039;Tattoo&amp;#039; was. It was kind of a word-of-mouth hit. The more people heard it, the more they started requesting it on the radio. I love the song so much and when I first heard it I was like, &amp;#039;Oh my gosh, No.1!&amp;#039; When it didn&amp;#039;t do that, I was like, &amp;#039;Well that&amp;#039;s OK though, because I have lots of other great songs to come&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; You performed at VH1&amp;#039;s Divas Live last month. Do you like being called a diva? &amp;quot;That term&amp;#039;s definitely got a negative aura to it, because people think a diva is somebody with an attitude who demands things all the time. Of course there is that type of diva, but my idea of a diva has always been a singer - whether male or female - who gets on that stage and captivates you with their presence and their voice. I think of people like Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston and Celine Dion, so to be able to follow in their footsteps and perform at Divas was really cool. So yeah, I guess I like being called a diva!&amp;quot; Do you have any diva-ish demands? &amp;quot;You know, I don&amp;#039;t have anything too crazy on my rider. I just ask for tea, apples and chips and salsa! But since Idol I&amp;#039;ve gotten used to having an amazing hair and make-up team around me, so I&amp;#039;m starting to get picky. I know what I like now and I&amp;#039;m happy to say &amp;#039;Could we maybe change that?&amp;#039; if I don&amp;#039;t like something. I don&amp;#039;t yell or anything, but I think I could definitely start to act a little diva-ish when it comes to my look.&amp;quot; Did you get to hang out with any of the other divas backstage? &amp;quot;Backstage was just the craziest place - everyone was running around like they&amp;#039;d had their head cut off! I did get to talk with Jennifer, Kelly, Miley, Adele and Leona though. Leona actually wrote me a personalised card saying it was an honour to be going onstage with me, which was just so, so sweet. I really wasn&amp;#039;t expecting it and she almost had me in tears! You guys have a really, really good girl in Leona.&amp;quot; Do you like her new single, &amp;#039;Happy&amp;#039;? &amp;quot;Yeah, I love the lyrics and you can definitely hear that Ryan Tedder worked on the music. The way Leona performs it is just amazing. I love everything that Leona does though - I&amp;#039;d listen to her sing the phonebook.&amp;quot; You&amp;#039;ve just finished supporting Britney on tour. How did that go? &amp;quot;Great! Before one of the very last shows, I got to chat with Britney and say thank you for having me on the tour. She told me she really liked my show, which was cool to hear. I didn&amp;#039;t have chance to hang out with her too much because she&amp;#039;s Britney and she&amp;#039;s always doing something, but I bumped into her a few times and she was always really sweet. And of course she killed it onstage! Her production&amp;#039;s just crazy with all the dancers and contortionists and aerialists. It&amp;#039;s an amazing spectacle to watch.&amp;quot; Jordin&amp;#039;s single, &amp;#039;SOS (Let The Music Play)&amp;#039;, and album, Battlefield, are both available to buy now. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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