2nd draft for my article

As Jodie Flair sweeps into the room nonchalantly, I can’t help but stare. She is wearing very little, and looks like every boys dream rolled into one. As she sits down, she says to me “Well let’s stop staring and get on with this interview then”. Even from the moment she walked into the room she had established herself as a diva-type, from her confident strut to her hair toss, but this confirms it. This is the amazing thing about her. She is acting like a diva who has been in the business for years, when she is only just emerging on the music scene.

We start talking about her outfit, and when asked who she gets her fashion inspiration from she replies “I don’t need inspiration. I’ve always been fashionable”. She certainly has proved herself to very high in the fashion stakes, flaunting all kinds of outfits in public like some toned down version of Lady Gaga. I ask her about the idea behind her debut single, “Peas”, and she starts telling me about previous boyfriends, chance and unrequited love. However, I kind of get the feeling there is something more. “Let’s face it” I say, “You just love peas don’t you?”. At this, she laughs right on cue, for which I am highly grateful. “I do actually” she replies. “When I was little I used to build pea towers and stuff like that. And I never used to be told to eat my peas, I always ate them anyway. I was a really cool kid”. I have to laugh at this. Jodie even makes a childhood habit of building towers out of peas sound like some unique hobby.

Jodie has no fears about being individual and pushing the boat out in the music industry: the video for the single features Jodie wearing a pea green lycra catsuit, with pea dancers all around her. She has taken many of her influences from artists like "Goldfrapp" and "Florence and the machine", but says she does not want to become like another artist; "I want to be totally unique. I think I will be. But fucking hell, even unique isn't unique nowadays." We then talk about when the forthcoming album, “Never say never” will be released. “April 4th hopefully” she says “But we’re hoping that the single will be so popular that we can get it released a lot earlier! I’ve got a lot of confidence that it will”. I can tell that this girl has no doubts about her own ability: she has a good voice and she knows it. Jodie then goes on to tell me about how her interest in music developed from when she was a child, when she used to perform singing concerts to her whole family. “If they didn’t applaud enough, I would go in a sulk for the rest of the day!” she laughs. In fact, Jodie’s mother knew she had an amazing ability from a young age. She sent her to the prestigious drama and music school “stage coach” in the hopes that it would help to get her into the music business. And it has obviously worked for 18 year old Jodie, who is set to become big talent for 2010. “I could totally beat Beyonce in a fight. She would get totally thrashed”, are the final words from Jodie about ultimate diva Beyonce as she saunters out of the interview room, hands on her hips, and I can tell that this girl is a diva in the making. You boys had better watch out.