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"Here at DS we won&amp;#039;t hear a bad word said against Booty Luv. They turned Tweet&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Boogie 2 Nite&amp;#039; and Luther Vandross&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Shine&amp;#039; into floor-fillers, proved they could pen their own dance anthem with &amp;#039;Some Kinda Rush&amp;#039;, and their debut album was as crammed with bangers as the Tesco meat counter. As they prepare to release &amp;#039;Say It&amp;#039;, their first single in 18 months, we hooked up with Nadia and Cherise for a much-needed catch-up. What have you been up to since &amp;#039;Some Kinda Rush&amp;#039; came out at the end of 2007? Nadia: &amp;quot;Time&amp;#039;s just gone so quick because we&amp;#039;ve been in the studio recording and doing lots of gigs.&amp;quot; Cherise: &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve basically spent this whole time writing, recording and performing, but we did manage to take a two-week holiday in the middle.&amp;quot; Nadia: &amp;quot;It was only seven days actually - we&amp;#039;re hard-working girls!&amp;quot; Is the album finished? Cherise: &amp;quot;Yes! Well, it&amp;#039;s very nearly there.&amp;quot; Nadia: &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s always little bits to do to make it just right, but the album is more or less ready to go.&amp;quot; How&amp;#039;s it different from your debut? Nadia: &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s definitely more creativity from myself and Cherise because the whole album&amp;#039;s original this time. We&amp;#039;ve not done any covers. For the first album we worked with one main producer, whereas we&amp;#039;ve worked with several different producers this time and they&amp;#039;ve given us an edgier style.&amp;quot; Cherise: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s still got that feelgood Booty Luv vibe to it, but we&amp;#039;ve just kind of stepped it up a notch.&amp;quot; Which new producers have you been working with? Cherise: &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve worked with Fraser T. Smith, the guy who did Tinchy Stryder&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Take Me Back&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Number One&amp;#039;. We did a song with him called &amp;#039;One Dance&amp;#039; that we think is really cool. We also worked with Michelle Escoffery who used to do bits with Artful Dodger back in the day. She&amp;#039;s an amazing writer and we fire off her really well.&amp;quot; The new single, &amp;#039;Say It&amp;#039;, has more of an electro sound to it than your previous tracks. Does that carry through on the album? Cherise: &amp;quot;Yeah, we&amp;#039;re trying to go for a new kind of sound, but not too different. We just want to show a progression. The whole album&amp;#039;s not electro like &amp;#039;Say It&amp;#039; though.&amp;quot; Nadia: &amp;quot;Some tracks have a real R&amp;amp;B vibe to them, others are proper dance tracks and some are typical poppier tracks. It&amp;#039;s a really exciting mixture of sounds.&amp;quot; What&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Say It&amp;#039; all about? Cherise: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s so straightforward we hardly need to explain it! Sometimes you go to a club, catch a guy&amp;#039;s eye and have an immediate connection with him. It gets to the end of the night and you&amp;#039;re like &amp;#039;Oh, I wish he&amp;#039;d said something to me&amp;#039;. The song&amp;#039;s basically us saying, &amp;#039;If you&amp;#039;ve got something to say, come and say it before it&amp;#039;s too late&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; Do you like a guy to take the lead then? Cherise: &amp;quot;Definitely!&amp;quot; Nadia: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s sometimes sweet to see a guy who&amp;#039;s kinda shy, but after a while I&amp;#039;m just like &amp;#039;Get on with it&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; Cherise: &amp;quot;Come on mate, we haven&amp;#039;t got all night!&amp;quot; Are you nervous about releasing a new single after such a long gap? Cherise: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not gonna deny it, I&amp;#039;m the nervous wreck of the group. The lead-up to releasing a single is always scary, but it&amp;#039;s even more nerve-wracking this time because we&amp;#039;ve been away for quite a while. I do think it&amp;#039;s going to do well though and people are going to really embrace it.&amp;quot; Are you aiming for a particular chart position? Nadia: &amp;quot;We don&amp;#039;t normally think like that. As long as everyone likes it and it does well, that&amp;#039;s a good look for us. We don&amp;#039;t think in terms of &amp;#039;We want a number five single&amp;#039; or &amp;#039;We want a number eight&amp;#039; single though.&amp;quot; Were you disappointed that &amp;#039;Some Kinda Rush&amp;#039; didn&amp;#039;t chart a bit higher? Cherise: &amp;quot;You know, I wasn&amp;#039;t actually disappointed with the chart position. I was more disappointed with the release date. If you release a single over Christmas you&amp;#039;re up against so many massive artists and I think it was the wrong move. I believe the single would have done extremely well if it hadn&amp;#039;t been released over the Christmas period. It should have been released before.&amp;quot; Nadia: &amp;quot;Whenever we perform live, it&amp;#039;s always the song that really gets the crowd going. It&amp;#039;s kind of become our anthem. Because of the reaction we get it&amp;#039;s less disappointing that it didn&amp;#039;t do so well.&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s always on The X Factor too. Cherise: &amp;quot;I know, it&amp;#039;s so random! The first time I heard it on X Factor I was kind of baffled but absolutely thrilled. I mean, all these millions of people watch X Factor and they&amp;#039;re all listening to &amp;#039;Some Kinda Rush&amp;#039; in the background. It&amp;#039;s really good for us.&amp;quot; Booty Luv release &amp;#039;Say It&amp;#039; on August 31. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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