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"Move over Taylor Swift. And take that ruddy guitar with you. There&amp;#039;s a new all-American teen in town and she&amp;#039;s spreading a message of positivity and &amp;quot;no cussing&amp;quot;. Alexis Jordan debuted at No.3 last month with &amp;#039;Happiness&amp;#039;, a simple love song that has more &amp;#039;mmm&amp;#039; than the Bisto advert. With our pearly whites fully exposed, we called up the 18-year-old (an America&amp;#039;s Got Talent alum, you know) to find out what&amp;#039;s next. &amp;#039;Happiness&amp;#039; was a big hit on both sides of the Atlantic. Are you surprised by its success? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m actually really surprised because it was something we were just putting out there as a warm-up to the album. I&amp;#039;m very excited about its success and it&amp;#039;s still going out there to different countries, so I&amp;#039;m very happy!&amp;quot; Have you picked a second single yet? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve locked down my second single, which is called &amp;#039;Good Girl&amp;#039;, and I&amp;#039;m releasing it early next year. It&amp;#039;s kind of more of a dance record and I&amp;#039;m really excited for it to come out.&amp;quot; What&amp;#039;s the status of the album - have you finished it yet? &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s finished and it&amp;#039;s coming out early next year. Everyone&amp;#039;s getting really excited and pumped up for it. It&amp;#039;s going to be a great album with a universal sound.&amp;quot; Well yes - apparently you have reggae songs and country songs\u00E2\u20AC\u00A6 &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s lots of genres on the album. That&amp;#039;s just me kind of not wanting to stay in a box.&amp;quot; You&amp;#039;ve said that your songs should have &amp;quot;no cussing&amp;quot;. Is there too much profanity in music at the moment? &amp;quot;I do think there&amp;#039;s too much - people are just using too many cuss words. That&amp;#039;s just me and my opinion of course. I can&amp;#039;t really speak for anyone else.&amp;quot; You&amp;#039;re on the same label as Willow. What do you make of her song and its success? &amp;quot;I love her track! It&amp;#039;s a great song, with a great meaning behind it, and I think a lot of girls like that positive-feeling music, so I&amp;#039;m really happy for her. I don&amp;#039;t think there&amp;#039;s any age in music, so it&amp;#039;s really good that she&amp;#039;s nine years old and doing what she loves.&amp;quot; You&amp;#039;ve covered a lot of British artists on your YouTube channel, including Cheryl Cole. How would she translate to the US? &amp;quot;For me, I love her music in general and I hope she does do well in the States. You always wish the best for any artist out there. I&amp;#039;ve watched her on The X Factor and I think she&amp;#039;s very sweet.&amp;quot; You made it through to the semi-finals on the first season of America&amp;#039;s Got Talent. Did you ever consider trying out for American Idol after that? &amp;quot;No, I didn&amp;#039;t want to because I felt like America&amp;#039;s Got Talent was enough exposure for me and I wanted to do it on my own after that. I feel like, if you&amp;#039;ve already been on TV, it does look a little desperate to keep on trying to do the same competition shows.&amp;quot; Have you been watching The X Factor while you&amp;#039;re over here? &amp;quot;I have been watching, yes! I really hope that One Direction win\u00E2\u20AC\u00A6&amp;quot; I&amp;#039;m backing Cher. &amp;quot;Really?! I think she&amp;#039;s a good artist but I feel like One Direction have a better vibe when they&amp;#039;re on stage. I&amp;#039;m actually flying home on Saturday so I&amp;#039;ll miss the finale, but I&amp;#039;m going to be hooked on my computer to see who won. Mmm-hmm!&amp;quot; Alexis Jordan&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Happiness&amp;#039; is out now. Her debut album follows in early 2011. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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