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I heard you might be releasing some new music this month, how similar is it to your
previous album?
Completely different; it’s a lot more grown up and mature as I have spent a lot longer on
this album to make it more personal to me. It is a lot more about my experiences so far
which obviously are going to be different to those of the legends as I am only 18 so I have a
lot to learn yet, but I feel like this album will surprise a lot of people since my more childish
album.
You performed as a supporting act during Slam Dunk Festival 2016; will you be showing a
bigger performance this year?
Yes it is my biggest performance yet which is very exciting for me to be performing here at
such a young age. I will be performing some of my new music but not all of it as I have got
some exciting surprises lined up for this year.
You are also nominated for a Grammy this year making you one of the youngest artists to be
nominated; how do you take your chances against your competitors?
Lot of amazing artists are nominated for my category but I’m not exactly worried or
anything because to be honest I am extremely thankful to just be nominated and make the
top 5 nominees. I am surprised I made in into the top 5 nominees so it has given me a lot of
hope however; I am up against some great artists including The 1975 and Twenty One Pilots.
One of your competitor nominees is James Durbin- your most talked about “music rival”;
have you spoken about the nominations?
Yes we have but not in an enemy way, yes we are music rivals- you could say- but we are
actually quite good friends, we’ve been talking about music a lot lately and may have
something exciting coming, we have had backlash in the past from paparazzi and music
reviews but we are focussing and managing to put that in the past as our music is starting to
become quite different to each other’s now and we are starting to become quite close. He
has actually given me some tips for performing at Slam Dunk Festival 2017.