CALL OFF THE SEARCH FOR SELF AWARENESS

We're a little amused and the Sun Online interview with Katie Melua, where she reveals - and prepare to be shoocked - that she isn't a "pop princess." Er, no, because you don't play pop, you play marketing-tune.

Katie insists that her artistic integrity is important to her:

"And I don’t think I would like to be part of a girl group like Girls Aloud. I wouldn’t do well in that environment."

Having said which, Girls Aloud haven't ever flogged their signature tune to DFS (or whichever one of those interchangeable sofa-matic stores it was).

This is interesting, too:

Katie’s new album Piece By Piece look sets to rocket to No1 on Sunday. It’s a classic bluesy production, which sticks to the winning formula that helped her shift millions of copies of her debut disc.

Her break up from from her long-term boyfriend Luke Pritchard last month inspired many lyrics.

So, she broke up from someone last month, and managed to write, record, manufacture and distribute an album about the split into the shops by last Monday? She was lucky there was space on all those shows to promote it at such short notice.

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