...another more bizarre
one arrives on 'Come on closer' which samples 'Pinky and Perky.'
So how did these and other samples end up working?
"I kind of know with my samples. I'll go through lots
of CD's and records and I'll find stuff," states Jem. “I
know if it's gonna work or not and with 'They' I stole my dads
vinyl! I tend to get from the beginning of a record and not
something from the middle. I'll listen to the first bit and
if I like it then I'll listen to the rest. But I know pretty
much immediately if something’s going to work. I won't
take much of the sample, I'll loop it. I don't tend to have
samples that I throw in and out."
With the UK's interest (again) for singer-songwriters, what
were Jem's thoughts on this and why it's happening once more?
"Don't you think it just happens though?" she questions.
"All of a sudden it feels like suddenly things are getting
too pop and then suddenly they'll be the new..." She doesn't
finish the sentence and goes straight into a new one. It's the
caffeine. “I mean I can't remember anything being as quite
full on as the years when you had Oasis, Blur and the Spice
Girls, when it was something that felt so huge. But I think
everything goes around y'know?"
I continue the topic and mention the optimism about British
bands making it in the all important US market, something she
knows about. "But that again just comes down to a bit of
luck and there's an element of loads of really hard work. To
me I can see it being really good to go and start doing it there
first, but I haven't finished touring, there's going to be years
of it to come."
For my final searching question, I ask Jem, now that her popularity
has increased whether she had been tempted to look for stories
about herself on the Internet? >>
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