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"Rita Ora is one of the coolest girls in the industry\u2014which makes it totally unbelievable that she has yet to drop a record on this side of the pond. \"This is my first U.S. album, so I'm approaching it like I've never done a record before,\" she said when she stopped by Teen Vogue to play an acoustic version of her new instant hit, \"I Will Never Let You Down.\" \"Some people know about me but don't know about my music. The face and the music has to make sense\u2014as crazy as I am is as crazy as the music needs to be.\"\n\nIf the record's first single is a sign of things to come, we're in for a bunch of bouncy jams that'll make you spontaneously break into dance and sing along at the top of your lungs\u2014which is, after all, what pop music's supposed to do. \"It's inspired by love\u2014it's as simple as that. I was so happy and I wanted to make happy songs,\" she said. \"Calvin wrote it, and sent it over to me, and it was perfect.\" Calvin is, of course, Calvin Harris, one of the most in-demand DJs in the world and a musical whiz kid who's worked on tracks for everyone from Ellie Goulding to Rihanna. \"He knows me more than a lot of people know me. I didn't want to work with him. We were both like 'We're not going to do that.' Now we've got four tracks together on the album.\"\n\nThe album, which comes out later this season, has its fair share of awesome musical references baked in. \"It's inspired by Whitney slash the '80s slash really great love songs. There's some ballads on there, but they're happy ballads,\" she said. \"I'm a massive Whitney fan. Half of the record is devoted to her. I love how uplifting and fun '80s music is. Everything's so serious these days\u2014it's nice to have a laugh sometimes.\"\n\nHer sense of humor comes through in the music video for \"I Will Never Let You Down,\" which is basically a four-minute fashion show, and boasts one of the best costume montages since Clueless. This is all very fitting, since the girl's been a style icon since day one. \"I told the director I just want to dress up and dance around,\" she says. \"I love dressing up and I love to leave impressions on people. I have a theory: When it's comfortable, for me, it's not the best.\"\n\nWhich sorta explains her seriously rad\u2014but just-no-way-they're-comfortable\u2014kicks.\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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