There are few artists who perceive the ability of feel-good pop fairly like Pixie Lott. For nearly twenty years, she’s constructed a profession on crafting infectious melodies and uplifting anthems, and together with her newest single, “Dance Like No One’s Watching”, she’s reminding listeners precisely why her music has remained such a continuing presence on playlists by way of the years.
The brand new launch additionally indicators an thrilling new chapter. Relatively than merely unveiling her subsequent single, Pixie invited followers into the artistic course of from the very starting, giving them the possibility to form the route of her return and reinforcing the shut relationship she’s cultivated together with her viewers all through her profession.
Talking to CelebMix, Pixie opens up in regards to the inspiration behind “Dance Like No One’s Watching”, explains why now felt like the best time handy over artistic management to her followers, displays on how she’s grown each personally and creatively because the launch of her final studio album “Encino”, and shares what’s subsequent as she embraces this thrilling new period…
Pixie, congratulations on the discharge of “Dance Like No One’s Watching” – it’s an actual, feel-good anthem that’s already wanting like a severe contender for the tune of summer time 2026…
Pixie: Oh wow, do you assume? Thanks a lot for saying that! It might be superb if this tune discovered its option to individuals, and have become slightly little bit of a soundtrack to their summer time. We’ve already performed it reside at just a few of my pageant reveals, and the suggestions I’ve been getting is absolutely, actually constructive, so I’m tremendous joyful. I really like that it’s placing a chord with individuals, and making them really feel slightly little bit of pleasure.
How does the tune make YOU really feel?
Pixie: Free! I really feel so free after I sing it, and I actually hope that that interprets to anyone who’s listening to it, as a result of this observe actually is about freedom and letting go! We’re all so busy, we’re working laborious, and doing our greatest to make one thing of our lives, to the purpose the place we typically neglect to have enjoyable and luxuriate in ourselves. So I would like everybody to place this tune on, flip up the amount, and exit into the world and reside their greatest life!
Let’s get liberated with Pixie Lott…
Pixie: (laughs) precisely! And why not? Life might be powerful! Each single considered one of us has been by way of a tough scenario, or an expertise that has modified us, and typically, once we come out the opposite aspect of a darkish time, it’s laborious to know the right way to discover our pleasure once more. As a songwriter, my purpose is to all the time attempt to raise individuals up, and to carry them into the right here and now, in order that they’ll really feel current within the second. Life’s too brief to fret about tomorrow, now we have to reside for in the present day.
Once you got down to write an inspirational pop bop like this, how do you get your self into that constructive, joyful headspace after which translate these feelings into one thing listeners can really feel too?
Pixie: I feel it’s all about discovering, and figuring out what makes you content, after which tapping into that feeling if you’re within the studio. Which isn’t all the time straightforward to do… I’ll maintain my fingers up and admit I’m an over thinker, and like lots of people, I can simply get caught up in issues that actually don’t matter. However fortunately I’ve a artistic outlet. Music and performing is one thing that actually helps me to get out of my head, and escape away into my very own little world. With this tune, and each tune I write, I hope I can provide individuals that very same sense of escape.
You co-wrote the tune with Jacob Attwooll and Bryn Christopher, how was it collaborating with them on new music?
Pixie: It was incredible! Working with Jacob is one of the best, we all the time a lot enjoyable writing collectively! I truly did my final two singles with him – “Coming Of Age” and “good spouse” – which I really like, so I’m joyful that we’re persevering with to collaborate on new materials. Bryn Christopher is a grasp at what he does! He’s such a expertise, and he’s written some unbelievable dance / pop tracks… I truly went to high school with him which is type of loopy! When the three of us received within the room collectively, there was this superb power that got here as quickly as we began writing. We set ourselves a purpose, and got here up with two phrases that the tune needed to encapsulate – enjoyable and free! And I feel we made good on that. On the floor “Dance Like No One’s Watching” is a enjoyable, upbeat, summer time get together observe! However it has coronary heart, and there’s a message that I’m attempting to convey to individuals and that’s go on the market, reside your life for you and do issues by yourself phrases!
DANCE LIKE NO ONE’S WATCHING
You let your followers assist form this launch from the very starting. Why did you determine to take that strategy, and was it daunting giving up that a lot artistic management?
Pixie: That’s a very good query… was it daunting? No, I don’t assume so. I feel I used to be simply excited on the concept of giving everyone the possibility, and alternative to be part of my resolution making course of. I’m making music for the individuals on the market that need to hear it, so I felt like, why not get everybody concerned and make these massive selections collectively! Social media will get a nasty rep, and I believed this was a good way to indicate everybody that we are able to truly use all of those on-line platforms for good. So I put the query on the market – what type of music do you need to hear from me? And we went from there. I’ve liked this complete course of; I undoubtedly need to do it once more sooner or later.
Do you assume involving your followers on this means has strengthened the bond you share with them?
Pixie: Aww yeah, I hope it has! Like I simply stated, I make music for my followers! I’m the place I’m, and I’ve the profession I’ve due to them, so in fact I would like them to really feel included in what I’m doing. I all the time need to ship, and provides them what they need! So it’s been sensible to make use of issues like “polls” on Instagram and speak on to them about and say “hey, what do you concentrate on this tune, or this lyric or this style of music?” And once more, like I simply stated, a beauty of social media is that us artists can now instantly join with our viewers, in a means that we couldn’t earlier than.
Discuss to me in regards to the response the songs had to date…
Pixie: Oh the response has been unbelievable – each on-line and in actual life! Within the feedback I’m seeing lots of people say how a lot they’re having fun with having a enjoyable, new dance observe to get together too, after which at my reside reveals, I’m seeing audiences actually get misplaced within the music. For somebody to have an emotional response to an uptempo tune could be very uncommon, so I’m tremendous, tremendous joyful to see that persons are connecting with the tune on so many alternative ranges. I’m so thrilled we’ve gone on this route, and created such an uplifting get together observe, as a result of I simply assume it’s excellent vibe to discover at the moment of 12 months. Actually, I used to be beside myself when the vote got here in and I knew we have been heading again to the dance flooring, I’ve missed having a boogie on stage (laughs).
This September marks two years because the launch of your critically acclaimed fourth studio album “Encino”. What do you assume you’ve learnt most about your self and the trade in that point?
Pixie: Wow, I can’t imagine that!.. 2 years? That’s loopy! Making the “Enicno” album modified every part for me, it was such a particular time in my life. I’ve learnt a lot in regards to the enterprise within the final couple of years, perhaps greater than I’ve all through my total profession! Which I do know is a loopy factor to say after I’ve been doing this (making music) for so long as I’ve, however as a result of I’m now extra fingers on, and enjoying an lively position in points of my work, I’m seeing first hand the entire issues that it takes to “make it” on this trade. I’m having conversations and taking conferences that I used to be by no means part of earlier than, which is comprehensible as a result of I used to be so younger, however now that I’m older and I’ve extra of a voice, it feels nice to have this actual sense of possession over my profession. However going again to your query, what have I learnt most in regards to the trade? (Laughs). Gosh, I feel perhaps the truth that artists themselves have far more general management these days. Again within the day I’d be within the studio, writing all of those songs and dealing to a set motif, however it was by no means my resolution what songs went on my album or when the music was launch. Typically you can be ready round for years for issues to occur… and as I’m not a really affected person individual, I discovered that fairly laborious. These days although, I can write a tune that I really feel captures a second, and I can launch it every time I would like! I really like having that freedom, it’s rather more creatively fulfilling.
The entire materials featured on “Encino”, and your releases since, have been extremely private – you’ve developed this stunning means of telling heartfelt tales by way of tune. How do you are feeling your writing type has modified since “Flip It Up”?
Pixie: I undoubtedly really feel extra assured in my writing now, and I feel that confidence comes with age – the older you get, the extra expertise you could have, the extra you need to say, and the boldness to say it! Collaborating and dealing with different writers additionally actually lets you discover your type and your course of, however on the finish of the day you need to imagine that what you’re bringing to the desk is worthy of being heard. I’ve all the time appreciated to write down songs which have a message, and I all the time will, however transferring ahead I discover myself desirous to discover the concept of writing lyrics which are slightly bit extra instantly reflective of the place I’m at in my life – subjects and conditions that really feel actually actual to me.
“Coming Of Age” and “good spouse” are nice examples of that…
Pixie: Ahh thanks, I really like these songs! They’re very completely different in type, however lyrically they every inform part of my story. It’s all the time a cool factor if you write a tune that connects the magic of pop music and actual life. I feel most songwriters purpose to share the issues they’ve discovered in their very own lives as a option to reference to individuals, as a result of actually, that’s what music is all about, connection. There are not any guidelines anymore! No person can let you know what’s going to land, no one can predict what’s going to go viral, and that’s the enjoyable of the music trade now, the unknown! So that you simply must do what’s best for you, concentrate on the constructive, proceed to maintain in tune together with your viewers, and be joyful!
As you’ve beforehand stated, your music has all the time been a mirrored image of your life, and due to that you simply’ve spent the final 17 years creating this excellent musical scrapbook, that can eternally inform your story. As you proceed to develop and evolve each personally and artistically, how would you greatest describe this present chapter in your life? And what do you hope its legacy might be?
Pixie: An artists profession will all the time be made up of various chapters and seasons. The temper and vibe of these chapters simply relies on the type of music they’re making and releasing at the moment.When you take a look at my discography to date, it truly is a mirrored image of my life, and I really like that! Writing “Encino” was an actual turning level for me creatively, every part type of fell into place, and I actually started to grasp who I needed to be as an artist transferring ahead. This subsequent chapter will hopefully simply proceed to mirror my journey. I’m a spouse and a mom now, household will all the time be my primary, however I’m nonetheless a artistic one that has desires and aspirations! I do know lots of people in my scenario will really feel the identical, so I need to empower everybody on the market to not maintain themselves again and make themselves as precedence, in the identical means they do their household and family members. I all the time assume to myself, what do I stand for? What do I would like my story to be? How do I stability household and a profession? On some days I’ve the solutions to all of these questions, and a few days I don’t, and that’s okay. That’s simply life, and all of us must take issues someday at a time. There’s nonetheless a lot that I must be taught, and a lot that I don’t know. However I’m feeling empowered by the entire data I’ve gained, and I’m excited to maintain issues transferring ahead.
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