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RS: So how do you feel right now actually working with an 80's star like Kylie Minogue?
Calvin Harris: Really, she's a star for all decades, that's the beauty of Kylie Minogue – the fact that she's fast becoming and icon of a generation. So it was nice to meet her, it was nice to realize that she is as lovely as everyone says she is. It was kind of bizarre but it was well over a year now, so I'm looking ahead to the future.
RS: Speaking of popstars, I also heard you worked with Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
Calvin Harris: Yes, that was a couple of months ago and that was good fun. I liked that, that was nice, and I think one of them is going to come out. I don't know, it's up to other people.
RS: When you work with someone like Sophie or Kylie, how do you collaborate with them?
Calvin Harris: I usually go down with an instrumental that I've already done or that's how it's worked so far, simply because it's not practical to invite a multimillion-selling pop star into my bedroom and say, 'Do you want to write a song from scratch?' So I've been doing the instrumentals first and then going down to London and meeting them somewhere neutral. Then they've written lyrics to it, or I've typed out my lyrics, or we've got someone else in to write lyrics as well.
RS: Are you working on a new album?
Calvin Harris: Yes, I am. That is the main focus of my entire life at the moment, just doing something that I'm absolutely a hundred percent proud of that I can release to the public and not be ashamed.
RS: What's your inspiration for the new album, what direction are you going?
Calvin Harris: I just want it to be the cutting edge dance album of the year. I'm strictly looking ahead to the future, all of our futures, and bringing it together on one CD.
RS: Sounds like a big undertaking. You've also done some remixes over the years. How do you like doing remixes with people like All Saints and Groove Amada?
Calvin Harris: It's always good fun when you like the original but you think you could do better. With Groove Amada it wasn't quite like that, but a lot of the productions that I hear, I'm not really feeling them like a dance music sort of thing. So it's nice to get a really good vocal in, and in my opinion, make it better. Just for my own entertainment, and if people want to either pay me money, or pay me money and put it out, it's all good.
Calvin Harris: Really, she's a star for all decades, that's the beauty of Kylie Minogue – the fact that she's fast becoming and icon of a generation. So it was nice to meet her, it was nice to realize that she is as lovely as everyone says she is. It was kind of bizarre but it was well over a year now, so I'm looking ahead to the future.
RS: Speaking of popstars, I also heard you worked with Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
Calvin Harris: Yes, that was a couple of months ago and that was good fun. I liked that, that was nice, and I think one of them is going to come out. I don't know, it's up to other people.
RS: When you work with someone like Sophie or Kylie, how do you collaborate with them?
Calvin Harris: I usually go down with an instrumental that I've already done or that's how it's worked so far, simply because it's not practical to invite a multimillion-selling pop star into my bedroom and say, 'Do you want to write a song from scratch?' So I've been doing the instrumentals first and then going down to London and meeting them somewhere neutral. Then they've written lyrics to it, or I've typed out my lyrics, or we've got someone else in to write lyrics as well.
RS: Are you working on a new album?
Calvin Harris: Yes, I am. That is the main focus of my entire life at the moment, just doing something that I'm absolutely a hundred percent proud of that I can release to the public and not be ashamed.
RS: What's your inspiration for the new album, what direction are you going?
Calvin Harris: I just want it to be the cutting edge dance album of the year. I'm strictly looking ahead to the future, all of our futures, and bringing it together on one CD.
RS: Sounds like a big undertaking. You've also done some remixes over the years. How do you like doing remixes with people like All Saints and Groove Amada?
Calvin Harris: It's always good fun when you like the original but you think you could do better. With Groove Amada it wasn't quite like that, but a lot of the productions that I hear, I'm not really feeling them like a dance music sort of thing. So it's nice to get a really good vocal in, and in my opinion, make it better. Just for my own entertainment, and if people want to either pay me money, or pay me money and put it out, it's all good.
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