Eliza Doolittle: "I desparately wanted to be Beyonce"
Eliza Doolittle talks to Sugarscape! And we leave wanting ALL of her clothes. Eliza Doolittle has a cool name. We've known that since we saw her first music video back in the springtime, and her name flashed up on the screen. "That's cool" we said. And then we changed channels. We met up with her a couple of weeks ago, and the same thing popped into our heads when we saw her. Followed by "She's tiny" and a 3 minute thought tangent about whether or not she would actually fit in our pockets. Conclusion: She wouldn't. But that's only because we don't have any. Once we'd recovered from the height/name thing, we let her get on with telling us about everything that she's been up to recently. Her latest single, Rollerblades was out on the 18th of October. She said that she really didn't expect her music to do so well this year: "It totally blows my mind. I didn't see this coming at all. Obviously I really hoped that it would, but I had no real idea of what would really happen with it. "I was about 12 when I decided that I really really wanted to sing, so when somebody told me to start writing straightaway, that's what I did. I got a publishing deal for my songwriting while I was pretty young, but I spent a while working what i really wanted to sound like before I put myself out there as a singer. Actually Rollerblades was the first song when I was really like 'yeah, this is my sound!' which is I put my head down and got on with the album. Then I got a record deal and a couple of years later, here we are! "I still have all the old songs from when I was 12 on my laptop though, but nobodys allowed to see them! Its kind of like a diary. I don't get embarrassed by them: they're kind of cute. They're just a bit personal. I was just writing about boys and copying Destiny's Child: I desperately wanted to be Beyonce. "When I was 14 or 15, I got really annoyed about all the songs on the radio being about love and boyfriends, especially when I didn't even have one! So I made a pact with myself not to ever base my songs on those subjects. It's just really boring. That's why I write about real life. I'm not saying that I'll never change my mind about that, but at the moment I'm happy with the kind of thing I'm doing.