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Carolynne Interview - 3rd December 2003

Caz's location : Her flat in London (actually not in a taxi this time! Lol)

Thanks to everyone who submitted a question to ask Caz. Sorry if yours wasn't asked, I asked most of them but one or two I accidentally missed!

S: What have you been up to today?
C: I've just been dashing around getting things ready as I have a few gigs this week
S: Oh yeah with Peter
C: Yeah (laughs)
S: Are you better now?
C: Yeah, it was my sisters birthday this week, I think I just ate and drank too much! I went out with a friend after my gig on Saturday night, and I thought I was just hung-over in the morning but I think it was more than that!
S: You'd over done it!
C: Yeah I dunno what it was, I just felt constantly poorly, sick and lightheaded.

S: How was Sweden?
C: It was good! We got some good stuff done! I did four songs out there, one was called "Wasted", one called "Bad Boy" (gives a dirty laugh)
S: Hmm wonder who that's about? (laughs)
C: (laughs) and one called "That's why we don't talk anymore" and " I wanna take you home". So yeah it was quite good!

C: So has everyone got questions for me?
S: Yeah lots!
C: (laughs) I haven't had a chance to be on the board lately coz of Sweden and stuff
S: People have been posting xmas cards on there for you!
C: awwww. I came in the other night, and my dad was on the board and I had a little look and saw some cards….who did I see… is it Hayley, Haylz
S: Yeah Haylz!

C: Have I got any strange questions? Oh hang on a minute I'm just getting a jaffa cake (laughs)
S: You've not signed a deal have you?
C: No I haven't signed anything
S: Yeah coz someone thought they read that you had
C: That I'd signed to BMG or something?
S: Yeah that's it
C: Nope! There's no point in me going round the to companies till I can present my full album. Otherwise the record company will take too much……well the record company don't want any work to do. So I can be like this is my album, this is the first, second, third single do you like it?

(We talk for a sec about my site being the Official Fansite, I tell her the management said it could be the official one and she says she is cool/happy with that and she will be speaking to her management about it this week to sort things out!)

C: I'm still stuffing my face with a Jaffacake (laughs) How do you eat yours? I bite mine round the edges and suck the jelly bit (laughs)
S: (laughing)

(someone knocks on the door and Caz has to go and sign for something, so I call her back in a few mins…)

C: Sorry bout that, had to sign for something for Alistair. He is on This Morning tommorow and singing a song that I did backing vocals on, I cant even remember doing them!!

S: Do you know what you are going to call your album?
C: oooh not yet. Well I have a song called "Typical Me" which I've always said I want to call the album, but I don't know yet!

S: If you could be invisible for the day where would you go and what would you do?
C: (giggles) hmm…..erm…..that's a tough one! Erm….everywhere! Where would you go?
S: Urm…. I really don't know!
C: Urm, where would I go…..I'd go and spy on all the people that I don't trust (laughs) or I'd go into the guy I fancy's changing room!! (laughs for ages) Report back to my friends!!

S: Ooh yeah, someone said you are going out with David from Triple 8?!
C: wooooo (shrieks with laughter) Who said that??!
S: Well someone told me and said they cant say who told them that…..
C: That is soooooo not true! (laughs) There's more chance of (says something I cant quite make out, but it's a bit rude lol) haha no I'm only kidding, I'm not kidding about us going out, we are not going out!
S: Definitely not then?
C: Nope definitely not going out with David. I speak to him, but he is not my type!

S: How was your date the other week?
C: Which one was that? (bursts out laughing) I'm only kidding!!
S: (laughing) The one……..the day before you were going to Sweden?
C: Ooh I didn't go on that in the end. There is someone I like but…..I don't know.

S: Where you good at school or did you ever get detention?
C: Yeah I got detentions. I had a really bad attention span. If I was doing a subject I liked I'd work really hard at it, but if I didn't I'd be writing poems in the back of my diary! I didn't like school. I wasn't that bad, just a typical teenager I think.

S: What's the most embarassing thing to have happened to you?
C: (laughs) I don't think I can talk about them! No, erm……..(excitedly) ooh yeah (giggles for ages) There was one time when I was on a date with this guy who was really lovely. We we chatting and the drink was flowing, and I was swaying a little bit, I didn't realise how drunk I was. He went to go to the toilet and as soon as he went I was rummaging in my bag to get my lipstick out, I didn't have a mirror or anything but I put my lip liner on. He came back and just stared at me and he said "what have you done?" I was like what? I was talking to him for about 20 minutes then I went to the toilet and looked in the mirror and I had put my eyeliner around my lips!!! (laughs) I was like NOO WAY!! (laughs) My friends were like oh it's a whole taxi for him then Caz! Take it your not seeing him again! I looked like a drag queen!!
S: Oh god (laughs)
C: I don't think he was very good looking anyway I think I must have had my beer goggles on.
S: Did you see him again?
C: No I didn't
S: Hmm I wonder why!
C: (laughs) Yeah!

S: What's in your cd player at the moment?
C: I'm swapping and changing between the Black Eyed Peas album and Evanescence.
S: Oh both of those groups are good
C: Yeah Evanescence rock! Black eyed peas are cool as well.

C: Who did you want to win Pop Idol? (hey Caz I was meant to ask you that! Lol)
S: erm………I don't know out of those four really….Sam I guess, he is more of a Pop Idol that the others.
C: Yeah I want Sam to win. I wanted Roxanne to win more than the rest of them. I just didn't think…….Well Suzanne got on my nerves a bit
S: People were always comparing her to Alex weren't they?
C: Yeah! But she doesn't compare to Alex, Alex is much better. She was alright, but I just didn't get excited about anybody. Roxanne was proper wicked, when she came on stage she just blew the others out of the water!
S: It's not as good as last year is it?
C: Nope

S: Given complete artistic freedom what genre would your music be classified in?
C: Urm, I think pop music. Because pop covers more genres than you think. It's not just teeny-bop pop. It's kind of that rock element of pop, it's rock/pop at the end of the day. There's a little bit of……well if I had total artistic freedom there would be a LOT of different things on the album. I have a really collective taste in music. But you can't confuse the audience. I like funky kinda rocky music, there's some modern stuff. I'm trying to keep my tracks not sounding old fashioned. There are some songs I do that are like a poppy, catchy melody, but I wanna put guitars on there! (laughs)

S: Ok this from Wicked Imp, it could only be from him (laughs)
C: (laughing) Oh I like him
S: How do you feel about us lot asking you annoying questions all the time?
C: (laughs) haha….erm……I don't mind it and that is the truth! No, it's good. Nice to know I'm not the only one who is really crazy (laughs) (jokingly) You lot are off you nut, loonies!! But he is funny he is. My dad likes reading his stuff. I like that little face he has by his name
S: Oh the devil face
C: Yeah! That would be the one I'd have on mine! The Imp. Sounds like something that happens when you know…… The Limp (laughs)
S: (laughing) He wont like that!!!
C: (laughing) No I'm only kidding!!! Haha. He has the same sense of humour as me!

S: What was the last item of clothing you bought and where did you get it?
C: Urm..lemme think…. (thinks for ages) Oh god what was it? A red studded belt I think. Does that count as clothes or accessories?
S: That's an accessory
C: oooh picky lot! (laughs)
S: Ok that can count then!
C: Yeah I'm always buying clothes, I can't remember.

S: When you write songs do you get the melody first or the lyrics?
C: Different every time! Sometimes I will be laying in bed and start humming a tune, and thinks that's cool. Then I will put it on Dictaphone. Then I'll write down my thoughts and feelings and piece that into the melody. Or sometimes it's a funky one. In Sweden we messed about putting beats up, mainly up-tempo funky ones. Then I go to my lyric book and put the lyrics together. Or sometimes it comes together all at once. Different every time!

S: What songwriter would you like to work with?
C: Urm…I'd like to work with…. Linda Perry
S: Oh yeah she writes with Christina Aguilera doesn't she?
C: Yeah. She's not scared of writing things, she has that shock factor and I like that.

S: How do you get your hair to look good all the time?
C: (surprised) What?? It doesn't look good all the time! You should see it now!! (laughs) Sometimes I just wash it and twist it in a little bun while I'm getting ready. Then I take it out and it's a little bit wavy. I have a natural wave in my hair, not much though, when I was little it was dead straight. If I blow dry it it goes really straight.
S: Do you dye your hair?
C: I put a tone or wash on it because sometimes I like a little bit of a red tinge in it ya know.
S: But it's naturally very dark?
C: Yeah I'm naturally very dark, me and my dad are both really dark.

S: Are you secretly glad you didn't win Fame Academy or come second because you get to take your time?
C: Urm. I've been working really hard as a songwriter for a long time and I wouldn't want the first thing I bought out to have half a dozen covers on it. But at the end of the day it's a good start for you. You know you just use what you have got, and turn it to your advantage. I'd have been really excited if I had won though. So yeah I would have loved to won. But it doesn't necessarily mean you get something good if you win.

S: Is there anybody in the academy who you thought didn't deserve to be there?
C: Ooooh, that's a good question! Urm….(laughs)
S: Yes, but you cant say!
C: Well, they all deserved to be there, but maybe some people who didn't get in deserved to be there more than some who did get in.
S: Ok, good answer!
C: Yeah, obviously I can't name names coz that wouldn't be fair. That's a hard question!

S: Why were you paranoid about the cameras in the bathroom coz there weren't any in there?
C: Yeah but we didn't know that til we came out!
S: You didn't know then?!
C: No, there was a camera in there but it was a dummy one! It had a red flashing light on it. So everytime me a lou went to loo we were like I can't do it! (laughs)
S: That's bad they made you think that!
C: I know! Not good!

S: What would you like to be in your dressing room during a concert?
C: Ooh…..Jaffa Cakes!! (laughs) or….err……
S: Men!!
C: Yeah! Or probably like a muscley bald man (giggles) one who gives massages!
S: (laughing) okay!
C: (excited) oooh I tell ya I have this obsession with the guy in the Sugababes video!
S: What in the newest video?
C: Yeah "Too lost in you". He is like WOW, I'm like phwooar! (laughs)
S: Which one is he?
C: It's the one….I think he is with the black girl in the video
S: I'll have to have a look out for him!
C: Yeah! He is like wow. I'm like oh my god you lucky b*gger, rubbing your hands all over him! (laughing)
S: You might get to pick men for your videos!
C: Nah, can you imagine me running up and down selecting them? I'd burst out laughing! I couldn't keep a straight face rubbing my hands all sexually over them! I'd be like woohoo! Haha. I'd be tweaking their nipples and stuff (laughs)

S: (Can hardly ask this question due to laughing at her last answer lol)
What is your fave way to relax after a busy day at the studio?

C: oooh straight into the cozy pajamas, bath, hair in a ponytail, curl up on the sofa with jaffa cakes and a video. Duvet on the sofa. You cant beat a cuddle. Cuddling up to someone is the best.

S: Are there any plans to record a duet with any of the other students?
C: Erm, no plans just yet. Although, Paris doesn't know this yet, but I have this song that I want him to come and do some things on. I've kind of mentioned it to him before and he said he would do it. (jokingly)I'm a bully I'll make him do it!
S: Has he got a deal yet?
C: No not at the moment, but his stuff is wicked. I really like his stuff, it's good fun.

S: Some people wanted to know how tall you are…
C: I'm nearly 5'5. Everyone says I looked tall on the telly
S: You did look tall!
C: Yeah everybody says, and when they see me they are like oh god aren't you small!! I'm one of the tallest in my family!

S: How old were you when you realised you wanted to be a singer?
C: Oh, really young. But my mum told me I was going to be a supermodel. So I believed that my whole life. She told me I was really tall and had long legs! But I'm short and stumpy, so thanks mum! (laughs)
S: You're not stumpy!!
C: She also said moles are beauty spots!

S: What's your ideal christmas present?
C: My ideal present would be…..that everyone I know to get an ideal christmas present. I prefer the giving bit now I think. Although Iwouldn't mind that man you know that was in my dressing room (laughs) with a bow tie and jumping out of a box saying happy xmas! He'd be just dressed in a thong! Haha just kidding (laughs)
S: Someone might send you that you never know!
C: Yeah that would be good!! Oh someone sent me an elephant toy thing. It's a song thing, you put something in the elephants trunk
S: hmm strange
C: (laughs) I know!!

S: What's the most embarassing song in your music collection?
C: In mine? Kylie and Jason's "Especially For you"
S: haha I had that!
C: I got Denise and Johnny's version of that as well laughs)
S: So I did I! Very sad (laughs)

S: Do you play any instruments?
C: No, sadly. I can sit at the piano and say to someone yeh I like this. But there is no point in me doing it as I get frustrated. I do pick things up quickly though.
S: You started doing that in the academy didn't you?
C: Yeah. Even with the guitar I just get really lazy. I have a guitar. But I just look at it and stroke it, like I did with my car for a year! (laughs)
S: Ah yes, how is your driving going?
C: It's going ok!
S: Not driven up to Leeds yet?
C: No. I did drive to Manchester by myself, but I didn't tell anyone.
S: They would have worried about you!
C: Yeah! My mum would have a baby about it or something! I told them once I had it, they were like oooh glad you didn't tell us!

S: What's the worse thing you have ever read about yourself?
C: Erm, that I wrote w*nker on some little boys forehead!
S: Oh yeah I read that ages ago!
C: Yeah it wasn't nice, it wasn't true at all. Apart from that there's been people selling stories.
S: That's low isn't it?!
C: Yeah (sighs) they weren't too bad, didn't say anything nasty, but they said a few things you like to keep secret! You don't really want your dad reading that!! But never mind!

S: Will there be a FA tour?
C: No. I don't think so. Unless they wait till the last minute to tell us!

S: What would you do if your solo career didn't work out?
C: Keep trying at it! Keep writing. Might try some acting later, but I don't want to concentrate on too many things.

S: Oh, there is a girl on the message board who is pregnant…..
C: Realllllly?? Oh my goodness me!
S: She said the baby is due on your birthday
C: awww really? A little Leo!
S: And if it's a girl her middle name will be Carolynne!
C: wooah (laughs) Will she spell it like mine?
S: Probably!
C: Everyone will call her Caroline like they do with me! Aww that's really sweet, very cool! I'm getting broody myself!
S: Oh no! (laughs)
C: (laughing) Oh I wouldn't ever, but I see a baby and think awww.
S: Would you like kids?
C: Yeah! I cant wait! But in the long term. One of my biggest fears is that I cant have kids. I have nightmares about that. But anyway……..

S: If you could only ever listen to one album again what would it be?
C: Oooh…..that's a good question……ooh I don't know, there's too many that's too hard! I'm stuck on that one! Pass! (laughs) Probably the Eagles Greatest hits. That's what made me write most of my melodies. Or U2!

S: Do you think you had a pastlife?
C: Yeah I really do. I think I was Marilyn Monroe (giggles for ages)
S: (laughing)
C: What ya laughing at I really do!! (jokingly) I was Marilyn Monroe!! No, I don't know, maybe! I was probably a fly or something!

S: What's your fave animal?
C: Horses! I used to have three horses. Never owned them, always had them on loan! But yeah I loved them!

S: When's the Loaded photo shoot?
C: Not done it yet, It's gonna be for the January issue
S: Doing it with Louise aren't you?
C: I was going to but not anymore. She is doing Maxim instead.

S: When you going to America?
C: Probably after christmas, not sure yet. Will be early in the new year.

S: If you could date a famous person who would it be?
C: Oh.. The guy from the Sugababes video! He's not famous though is he?
S: No….
C: But we could make him famous!

S: Someone wanted to know if you are doing any gigs in Leeds?
C: Just did one in Leeds!
S: Oh the one at the hotel? (that wasn't for the public though)
C: Yeah, and the one on the 16th.
S: That's not for the public though is it? Can I say about that?
C: Yeah don't see why not

(Ok, Carolynne has very very kindly asked me to go to her Christmas party on the 16th December. She will be singing some songs there as well. She invited me as a thank you for the site, and it will be a good opportunity to get lots of pictures to show you all!!)

S: What's the least fave part of your body?
C: Ooh most of it! You know what I really really hate?
S: What?
C: My chin!
S: Your chin?! There's nothing wrong with it!
C: It's really big, I hate it.
S: Would you ever have plastic Surgery?
C: Would I? Yeah probably!
S: Oh no! (laughs)
C: (laughing) Not now or anything! I wouldn't rule it out though. I wouldn't ever go stupid and end up with some plastic face
S: Like Michael Jackson!!
C: My dad used to say I looked like him when I was younger!

S: Did Patrick Kielty and Richard Park really hate each other?
C: Yeah they really did hate each other. Everyone asks me that!

S: If you weren't in FA would you have watched it and who would you have voted for??
C: Ooh that's a good one. To be honest I would have watched it if I got a chance but I don't watch much tv. But I would probably have voted for Paris. It's difficult to say though coz they are all my friends now. But Paris, yeah he's my boy, I love him to bits! My little mate!

S: What's your fave magazine?
C: Hmm, Heat. I like Star at the minute as well

S: Will you ever go to see your fans abroad?
C: Probably! It will be when I release a record. Unless any gigs come out over there then I will go!
S: You are getting quite a few fans from abroad on the site now!
C: That's cool! At the party I'll have to give the web addy out for everyone to go too.

S: What are you doing for New Years eve?
C: ooh, me and my friend Gemma were talking the other night about what we should do, not sure yet. Wanna do something fun. Probably end up going out in London though.

S: Would you give away your black hat in a competition?
C: It would have to be a good competition!!
S: Is that your fave one then?
C: Yeah. I lost my other fave one! I love my black hat!

S: Are you a dog or cat person?
C: Urm, I don't like just dogs or cats, I like both. I have a cat that I love to bit. I'm not an excitable dog fan. One of my mates has just got this dog, a miniture sausage dog. It's really cute, like a little toy!

S: Laura asked you to say hi to her!
C: Hello Laura! (giggles) Hello everybody!

S: Someone said are you too old for an advent calendar?
C: You have to be kidding, this is the girl that lives in her pajamas, of course I have an advent calendar!!!
S: What one you got?
C: I haven't got it yet but I will. Then I pop all the doors open and eat the chocolates then shut all the doors again
S: Is that what you always used to do?!
C: (laughing) Yeah! I get told off by my mum

S: This is a long question. What do you think about the way that shows like FA and Pop Idol drag out the expulsion process at the end for the sake of heightened drama?
C: Ah, all tv shows are gonna do that. It's a bit painful, but that is the whole thing. That's what the shows are about, it's not really about finding talent at all! It's about making you go "oooh"
S: You think it's fair enough then?
C: Well, I think you know what you are letting yourself in for! You gotta take it with a pinch of salt. And as much as you respect everyone's opinion, you know that they are there to be the baddies. The shows are about the whole nail biting thing.

(Tape comes the the end! Grrrr! Have to quickly turn it over lol.)

C: I'm just staring at my flatmates advent calendar actually…..(giggles)
S: (laughs) Are you?
C: Yeah, it's cadburys
S: She will open them and they will all be gone!
C: (laughs) Yeah she will, she will be like Carolynne!!
S: What's your fave chocolate bar?
C: Aero!! Definitely.

S: Has your management passed on anymore fanmail to you?
C: Yeah, they seem to have seen sorting out all the funny letters and sending them to me! Some of them are weird! Someone sent a photo and wrote on the back "This is evil me" (laughs)

(Ok guys own up who sent that? Lol)

S: Do you have a traditional christmas with all the family round?
C: Yeah, my mum gets up early and takes the turkey out and drinks lots of wine. Then she forgets about the turkey coz she gets drunk (laughs) Dishes the dinner out with no turkey!! We usually sit down and watch Toy Story in the afternoon!

S: Oh, someone wanted to know how old you were when you found out about Santa not being real?
C: What? Santa's not real??
S: Yeah
C: Is he not?
S: (laughing) No!
C: OH MY GOD! (laughs) I cant believe you told me that! That's just spoiled my christmas now!! When I was about………….
S: 20!!
C: yeah! No, I cant remember, pretty young. I heard rustling down stairs and I thought Oh my god I'm going to meet Santa! I was hyperventilating at the top of the stairs. I saw the pie had a bite taken out of it and I was looking where his teeth had been. Then I saw my dad putting the parcels out! I was like aww.

S: Oh sorry about that txt I sent you the other day that wasn't meant for you (laughs)
C: Don't worry that's ok!
S: Have you done that?
C: Yes! It's got me into some right trouble!
S: That could be well bad!
C: You're telling me!! I've got myself into some sticky situations!! (laughing) Dear me! Or phoning people and leaving msgs on the wrong answer phone! Never mind!

S: Who do you think should win record of the year?
C: I don't know, who's in it?
S: Busted, Beyonce, Daniel Beddingfield
C: for what? "If you're not the one"?
S: Yeah
C: I'll have to say that coz I sung it with him!

S: What was your fave childhood memory?
C: Any with my little sister, I have lots of good memories!

S: Do you have a middle name?
C: Yep, Sarah!
S: Good name!
C: (laughs) yeah! Carolynne Sarah Good.

S: Think I've run out of questions now!
C: Well I will be on the message board as soon as possible! Gotta get the internet back at the flat!

And that was basically it. How long was that interview?!? Lol. Haven't even had long enough to read through it all so sorry if there are lots of spelling mistakes etc!!

Huge thanks to the lovely Carolynne for doing another long interview!!

Sarah
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