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" Having spent the last few months witnessing the rise and fall of a number of new girl bands, the success of Stooshe&amp;#039;s debut single &amp;#039;Love Me&amp;#039; couldn&amp;#039;t have come at a more crucial time.  We met up with Alexandra, Karis and Courtney to discuss their new track &amp;#039;Black Heart&amp;#039;, their debut album and what they make of the return of the original Sugababes lineup. Congratulations on &amp;#039;Love Me&amp;#039; getting into the top five; does it feel like things have taken off now? Karis: &amp;quot;We went to LA for a while just after the song&amp;#039;s release. We went to our management and were like, &amp;#039;Have you guys done anything since we&amp;#039;ve been away?&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Courtney: &amp;quot;Everybody is suddenly noticing us a little bit more! It felt like there was a big push of promo while we were away.&amp;quot;  So do you feel a little bit more famous now? Karis: &amp;quot;We have little girls that run up to us, but we still don&amp;#039;t feel that famous. I don&amp;#039;t know why.&amp;quot; Courtney: &amp;quot;I think it&amp;#039;s just being\u00E2\u20AC\u00A6 grounded. You don&amp;#039;t want to let the fame get to you. We&amp;#039;re still us. We&amp;#039;re still working hard.&amp;quot; Have you been starstruck by anyone yet? Karis: &amp;quot;You know what, we never get starstruck. Well, Alexandra gets starstruck.&amp;quot; Alexandra: &amp;quot;And with the simplest things! I was nervous meeting Lana Del Rey at the Brit Awards, and whenever I meet a Spice Girl. They are obviously who we aspire to be. Growing up, they were our idols, so it was just weird.&amp;quot; You&amp;#039;ve recently put out the video for your new single &amp;#039;Black Heart&amp;#039;... Karis: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a ballad and it&amp;#039;s the opposite of what we&amp;#039;ve done so far. I think we made our mind up that with every single we&amp;#039;re gonna reinvent ourselves. This one is a bit Motown-esque.&amp;quot;  How did you find it acting in the video? Karis: &amp;quot;I think it went quite well. Every day was a 20-hour shift, so by the end we were all looking at each and cracking up.&amp;quot; Alexandra: &amp;quot;We can&amp;#039;t look each other in the face. Seriously.&amp;quot;  After a 20-hour working day, you&amp;#039;re bound to get a bit delirious. Karis: &amp;quot;Yeah, we have moments anyway that nobody understands. We are in our bubble. We had these energy shots that made us like, buzzing.&amp;quot; Courtney: &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re not meant to drink them like\u00E2\u20AC\u00A6 all at the same time.&amp;quot; Were you keen to show off your vocal abilities on &amp;#039;Black Heart&amp;#039;? Courtney: &amp;quot;Yeah, we really like the Supremes. We&amp;#039;re all really singing on this one. I mean, we always sing, but you like really see our range on this song. Hear our tones and styles. It&amp;#039;s really good.&amp;quot; Alexandra: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s actually shot on a camera from back in the day. The colours are all popping through.&amp;quot; So it&amp;#039;s not an Instagram job then. Courtney: &amp;quot;[Laughs] No, no!&amp;quot; Karis: &amp;quot;I think the song will be a turner. It&amp;#039;ll change people&amp;#039;s opinions. Before they might have thought, &amp;#039;These girls aren&amp;#039;t serious, they talk too much&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; Watch the &amp;#039;Black Heart&amp;#039; music video below:       Is the album finished yet? Karis: &amp;quot;I think we&amp;#039;ve got one more song to do. It&amp;#039;s coming out in June.&amp;quot; Courtney: &amp;quot;We went to our label with our album basically done, so we&amp;#039;ve just been doing promos since we signed to them, finishing off a song here and there. We fully developed our brand and were like, &amp;#039;Take it or leave it&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; What else can we expect from the album? Courtney: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s just an eclectic mix of\u00E2\u20AC\u00A6 as we said, on every single we want to reinvent ourselves. It&amp;#039;s all so different. It&amp;#039;s nice not to have one style of music. We can just do whatever.&amp;quot; Karis: &amp;quot;Oh, and colour. I think colour is running through it all. Colour.&amp;quot; Do you think you&amp;#039;ve managed to find your own sound yet? Alexandra: &amp;quot;You know when you hear a Rihanna song on the radio and you&amp;#039;re like, &amp;#039;That&amp;#039;s a Rihanna song!&amp;#039;? Hopefully they will do that with our album.&amp;quot; Apart from Travie McCoy, are there any more collaborations on the record? Courtney: &amp;quot;No, maybe next album. We didn&amp;#039;t want to overpush it with collabos. We wanted for us to get our own sound right before jumping in other places with Tom, Dick and Harry.&amp;quot; Karis:&amp;quot;I think we&amp;#039;re gonna do something with Rizzle Kicks. They&amp;#039;re our boys. They are like the boy version of us.&amp;quot; Alexandra: &amp;quot;One of our first ever gigs away from home were with them and it was before they grew to where they are. We were jumping on their set. It&amp;#039;s been great to see their growth.&amp;quot; Are you excited or terrified about the original Sugababes reunion? Courtney: &amp;quot;Oh my God, so excited. Original lineup all the way. The original lineup was the strongest. They were so raw and so much more edgy. I think they&amp;#039;re gonna bring it back to the original R&amp;amp;B, like Usher has done. I think they&amp;#039;re gonna do the same.&amp;quot; Stooshe release &amp;#039;Black Heart&amp;#039; on June 10.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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