Popjustice
  • Home
    • Briefing archive
  • Features
  • Playlists
  • Get Popjustice emails
  • About Popjustice
    • About
    • Popjustice: Est 2000
    • The Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
  • Contact
    • General contact details
    • Submit music
  • Forum
Recent Posts
  • New Music Monday: Griff's Black Hole is super, and massive
  • New Music Friday: Let's kick off 2021 with some KLF
  • The Top 45 Singles Of 2020
  • New Music Friday: Mae Muller doesn't want to be dependent
  • New Music Friday: There's a big one from Royal & The Serpent
Hello! In theory you should only be seeing this if you're using a mobile or tablet. How's the site looking? If anything's wonky click here and tell us so we can fix it. Thanks! x
Popjustice
  • Briefing
  • Features
  • Playlists
    • New Music Friday: The Popjustice Edit
    • Big Hit Energy
    • 21st Century Pop
    • 2018% Solid Pop Music
    • Full archive
  • About
    • About Popjustice
    • Contacting Popjustice
    • Send music
    • Popjustice: Est 2000
    • The Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
  • Forum
  • The News

Sam Sparro's upset about the lack of real musicianszzz

  • May 30, 2012
  • Brad O'Mance

'Recycle It!' hitmaker Sam Sparro finds it weird that a lot of the people making music nowadays "aren't really musicians".

In an interview with the Herald Sun, Sparro waffles on about how he wanted new album 'Return To Paradise' to be more "organic-sounding", before adding: "There are so many people making music who aren't really musicians now."

"Isn't that weird? And so many DJs who are tone deaf. They can't seem to mix in key. I keep hearing remixes where the vocal is in a different key to the music and no one seems to care. It drives me crazy."

Thanks for that Sam.

Talking about how weird it is to perform current single 'I Wish I Never Met You' given its personal con­nota­tions, he continued: "I actually didn't think it would be when I wrote it. But it feels like reliving it all the time. I need to learn to detach from it more. But then do you lose the realness of the lyrics in the per­form­ance? I need to ask Adele how she does it."

'Return To Paradise' is out on June 18.

  • sam sparro
Previous Article
  • The News

Cheryl Cole thought Nicola Roberts' record was really good actually

  • May 30, 2012
  • Mikey
Have a read
Next Article
  • The News

Justin Bieber is playing some secret shows in Europe

  • May 30, 2012
  • Mikey
Have a read
Pop as in popular
  • 1
    New Music Monday: Griff's Black Hole is super, and massive
  • 2
    New Music Friday: Let's kick off 2021 with some KLF
  • 3
    The Top 45 Singles Of 2020
Further listening
Greatest hits
  • Robyn talks 'Body Talk': "I'm always going to feel like an outsider"
  • Calvin Harris interview: "I don’t work on anyone else’s songs any more. I’ve had enough of all that"
  • Max Martin interview: "I’ve begun to feel that, well, I kind of know how to write a song now"
Further reading
  • 1
    New Music Monday: Griff's Black Hole is super, and massive
  • 2
    New Music Friday: Let's kick off 2021 with some KLF
  • 3
    The Top 45 Singles Of 2020
  • 4
    New Music Friday: Mae Muller doesn't want to be dependent
  • 5
    New Music Friday: There's a big one from Royal & The Serpent
  • 6
    New Music Friday: Baby Queen takes the throne
Est 2000. Still going.
Socials

 Spotify
 Facebook
 Twitter
 Instagram
 Soundcloud

'Quick links'

About Popjustice
Contact Popjustice
Sign up for the news­let­ter
Submit music
Est 2000
Twenty Quid Music Prize

Playlists

21st Century Pop
New Music Friday: The Popjustice Edit
2018% Solid Pop Music
The Sound Of Popjustice
Playlist archive

© 2020 Popjustice Ltd. Scrolled to the bottom now you're here
  • Privacy, Ts & Cs, cookies etc
  • Corrections

Input your search keywords and press Enter.