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" Has it really been four years since Sam Sparro released &amp;#039;Black &amp;amp; Gold&amp;#039;? While we wonder just what we&amp;#039;ve been doing with ourselves, Sam Sparro has been busy setting up camp in LA and working on a follow-up album to his eponymous debut.  Digital Spy met up with him to talk about the record Return To Paradise, what he makes of today&amp;#039;s charts and why he fancies LMFAO.  It&amp;#039;s been a while since we&amp;#039;ve heard from you; what have you been up to over the last few years? &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s been about two-and-a-half years since I finished touring the record. I&amp;#039;ve been doing some traveling, some living, I&amp;#039;ve set up home in LA, I&amp;#039;ve got two dogs...&amp;quot; Sounds like fun. Did you go anywhere nice? &amp;quot;The best place was Hawaii; it&amp;#039;s such an incredible place! I&amp;#039;ve also been in the studio a lot. I wrote about 60 songs for the album and slowly started whittling them down. I met up with some other artists and wrote and recorded with them as well.&amp;quot;  60 songs is a lot. How did you cut that down? &amp;quot;It was very hard. I still think in those old school ways about an album, even though a lot of people don&amp;#039;t anymore. Some of the songs that I left out will probably appear on the next album, or maybe I&amp;#039;ll give them to other artists.&amp;quot;  You could release them as a bonus disc with the album? &amp;quot;[Laughs] Can you imagine? I&amp;#039;m sure about ten people would buy it!&amp;quot; Going back to 2008, &amp;#039;Black &amp;amp; Gold&amp;#039; seemed to overshadow your album and its other singles. Was that annoying? &amp;quot;Not really because I really liked that song. That said, I thought there was other stuff on the record that was really great as well. It would have been nice for a wider audience to pay attention to the whole album, but I&amp;#039;m not complaining at all! It&amp;#039;s only my debut - there&amp;#039;s so much emphasis on the first two albums - but that&amp;#039;s not how you make a career. Prince&amp;#039;s first two albums flopped and look where he is now.&amp;quot;  There&amp;#039;s also that second album syndrome when singers don&amp;#039;t know how to follow their debut... &amp;quot;I was adamant on making sure it was good over anything else. I didn&amp;#039;t want to rush anything this time, which I did a little on my last record. Some of the songs on the new album have been marinating unfinished for over two years.&amp;quot;  Did that ever become frustrating? &amp;quot;I won&amp;#039;t do it on the next album. I want to get it finished really quickly. I&amp;#039;d like to try a more dense recording process, which is a totally different experience.&amp;quot;   As the title suggests, there&amp;#039;s a sadness and sense of longing on the album. Is everything okay? &amp;quot;It is a bit forlorn - I like that word! The sad songs are quite heavy going, but I was very, very sad at the time. I went through the first major break-up of my life and it was all a bit &amp;#039;woe is me!&amp;#039;. It&amp;#039;s nice to see people relating to &amp;#039;I Wish I Never Met You&amp;#039; too. Weirdly enough, it was one of the easiest tracks to do on the album. It sort of wrote itself.&amp;quot;  You also worked with Adam Lambert on his new album Trespassing; what was that like? &amp;quot;I love his new album - it&amp;#039;s a great pop album. I&amp;#039;m so pleased it&amp;#039;s topped the charts in America, and I hope it connects with the UK because he deserves it. His fanbase is crazy.&amp;quot; He says that the general public are still a bit resistant to gay popstars. Do you agree? &amp;quot;I think so, I although have no idea why that&amp;#039;s the case. Maybe it&amp;#039;s because the girls make gay music better than the guys. There&amp;#039;s also a reverse sexism thing going on, where women can exploit themselves as much as they like to sell music, but the minute a male artist crosses the line it&amp;#039;s sneered at. Not that I want to come out with a song called &amp;#039;Cake&amp;#039; and start slapping my VJ, but I&amp;#039;d like to see the reaction!&amp;quot;  There&amp;#039;s also a lot of &amp;quot;urban dance&amp;quot; on the charts at the moment. Are you a fan of David Guetta and Flo Rida? &amp;quot;Sometimes. In small doses - and when Sia is singing them! I love &amp;#039;Wild Ones&amp;#039; way more than I should. Sia&amp;#039;s got such an incredible and unique tone to her voice. I see her a lot around LA hanging out with her dogs. She&amp;#039;s so fun and I admire that she refuses to do any PR or live performances these days. The press ignored her for so long!&amp;quot;  Is there anyone else you&amp;#039;d like to work with? &amp;quot;I want to do a track with Kylie. &amp;#039;Timebomb&amp;#039; is a great track and the video is very &amp;#039;90s in the best possible way. I also secretly like LMFAO. When I saw the video for &amp;#039;Sexy and I Know It&amp;#039;, it kind of made me a little bit more interested.&amp;quot; Don&amp;#039;t tell us you fancy them. &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t say anything like that! Is my face red? OK, maybe I do.&amp;quot; Sam Sparro&amp;#039;s Return To Paradise is out on June 18. Watch the music video for his latest single &amp;#039;I Wish I Never Met You&amp;#039; below:       "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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