Amelia Lily isn’t bothered about popstars writing their own songs to be honest

Amelia Lily doesn’t think it’s important that popstars write their own songs.

In an enlightening chat with award-winning-although-not-recently music website Popjustice, the ‘Billie Jean’ interpreter said: “I think a song all depends on if the artist is right for the song and if they connect vocally with it.”

“With a lot of my tracks we [she and Xenomania] picked them for the album because I connected with them,” she explained. “If I played you a track that I felt I didn’t connect with you’d hear a massive a difference.”

Asked why she decided to work with Xenomania in the first place, she said it was basically because she felt like Brian Higgins was her dad.

“When I first met Brian, I realised that he got so excited about music and we had that little bond there, like a little spark, like a father and daughter relationship,” she said. “The fact that it was in the house meant I could just stand there surrounded by settees and record. It just feels so natural.”