Will Young - Switch It On / Keep On

Think About It is one of his favourites. "It's quite sultry, then the chorus just rips out."
With Dan Carey (Kylie's Slow) he wrote All I Want, "a great psychedelic Sixties song, it's really rough." With Mackichan (with whom he'd done Your Game, the soulful, gospel single from 'Friday's Child') he did Ain't Such a Bad Place To Be, "another rough one. I'm not Mr Tough or anything," he laughs, "but I did need to be tougher."

He also wanted songs that had more emotional teeth. "I went through quite a tough stage last year," he concludes, "but in that period I wrote some really good tunes that have stuck around. I don't know, maybe you have to be a bit more angsty to produce believable, true, honest work. He hooked up with Nitin Sawhney, and together they came up with Home, a song born out of personal experiences. "It's wonderful, the lyrics are beautiful... It's all about resolution, about something being the way it has to be but that doesn't make it necessarily a good thing."

"You know," he shrugs, "I've predominantly sung songs about love before and, if I'm honest, I didn't understand them. And just because I've lived a bit more, seen a bit more of life, it was like taking off sunglasses and just going, 'ah, this is what goes on...' I just saw so much more in films and painting and plays and music. I had a revelational moment. 'Now I fucking get it!' And it's just a real shame that in life to have those moments you have to be really badly hurt."

So it's time for people to get used to the real Will Young. He won't eat liver. He gets a bit claustrophobic. He overheats easily. And he knows who he is now. page << 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>