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"McFly have revealed that they were inspired by Prince and Michael Jackson on their new album. The group recently announced that the first single from the new LP would be &amp;#039;Party Girl&amp;#039;.  Tom Fletcher told the Daily Star: &amp;quot;We realised all the songs we\u00E2\u20AC\u2122d been writing early on could have gone on the last album and that we weren\u00E2\u20AC\u2122t doing anything new. &amp;quot;It made us decide to challenge ourselves to do something completely different. We wanted a drastic step in the other direction. &amp;quot;A couple of the songs in that early bunch that stood out for us had a Prince and Jacko influence and that\u00E2\u20AC\u2122s what we wanted to aim to be like - the great pop acts.&amp;quot; Bandmate Danny Jones added: &amp;quot;[Producer] Dallas [Austin] took us to clubs when we were meant to be working in the studio. We were out with him one night and he said, &amp;#039;I need a phone&amp;#039;, and then sung into it. &amp;quot;He played it back the next day and it was so amazing it turned into our first single &amp;#039;Party Girl&amp;#039;,&amp;quot; he revealed. The group will release the single on September 5. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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