Victoria Reveals All to Popgoss!
Why did you record a French version of 'A Mind Of Its Own'?
The French version of 'A Mind Of Its Own' took me over a day in the studio. I learnt French briefly when I was at school but I was never particularly good at it so it was a lot of hard work for me. I had a French teacher and an interpreter and my producers and everybody there in the studio with me and I just wanted to learn it off by heart really. I spent ages because I wanted to get it right. I wanted French people to understand it, which is kind of the idea anyway! But I'm very pleased with it, it's really, really good. It's a good version.
Why did you choose French when the Latin vibe is bigger right now?
Because the French record company were very interested in me doing it and obviously France is a very big market for me. And I've got some great French fans and I wanted to do it for them really. Maybe the next single will be in Spanish or Italian, we'll have to see.
What can you tell us about the live band you've recently put together?
I've put a live band together, or should I say, I have new management now and my new management team have put a band together for me, which is great. I really wanted to concentrate more on doing live work with this single because obviously 'Innocent Girl' is very fast so there's lots of dancing and fancy costumes and wigs and high heels and things so it would have been very difficult. With 'Mind Of Its Own', because it's a ballad, it gives me the opportunity to concentrate on my live work which is what I want to do.
I did my first live show just before Christmas at the NEC in Birmingham in front of 15,000 people. There was a 100-piece orchestra, plus my band and it was completely live the whole thing. It was the first time I've ever done that and it was an amazing atmosphere. It was fantastic to hear a 100-piece orchestra playing songs that I'd written. I did 'Mind Of Its Own' and 'I Owe You' and David was there and my mum and dad and Brooklyn.
I've also been doing lots of acoustic sessions on the radio and I've got a few shows booked in so I'm really enjoying myself at the moment. I'm just thinking I'm never going to please everybody so I've just got to please myself and I'm having a great time. This is what I like doing.
Is the live thing more terrifying when it's just you on your own?
It's so terrifying, it really is, and that's why now I have to think I'm in a position where whatever I do, I'll get criticised so I'm just doing it for me really. I'm loving it and it's very, very satisfying and I'm working on my vocals. Of course everybody makes mistakes but it's great and I'm just doing what I love doing. But I do still get nervous.
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