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Conor Maynard has to resist the urge to lick the faces of those more famous than him

  • August 1, 2012
  • Brad O'Mance

Conor Maynard had to try and control his instinct­ive need to to lick famous people's faces when he first started out in this popstar lark.

Talking to MTV about all the people he's 'col­lab­or­ated' with on his new album — Frank Ocean, Ne-Yo, Pharrell etc etc etc — he said he had problems remem­ber­ing social etiquette when he first met some of them.

"I had to control myself [and] not want to run in there and lick their faces. I had to control that," he said. "I had to be normal at the same time."

He also rattled off a story which we imagine Ne-Yo's getting pretty sick of hearing about how he came to be 'dis­covered' doing covers  on cult website YouTube.

"[Ne-Yo] told a story where one of his friends called him [like] 'Yo man, isn't this kid singing 'Beautiful Monster' better than you singing it?'" he explained. "He was a bit like 'Ah, no, I'll check that out.' And he was like 'Oh, damn, this kid does sing better than me.'"

Poor Ne-Yo.

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