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00:00 Sima, welcome, how are you? I'm very good, thank you very much for having me.

00:04 What's it like to be at the Brits today? It's weird, it's very odd, I don't really

00:11 belong here, I feel like a normal person that's undercover and is getting all of

00:16 the celebrity gossip from my mother at home kind of vibe, but I'm very much

00:22 enjoying myself, there's lots of beautiful people here with lots of

00:25 gorgeous clothes on. Who are you looking forward to meeting tonight? You've got some

00:30 really big names. I don't know if anyone will meet me, but if anyone was to want

00:36 to meet me it would be Kylie Minogue, because she is the love of my life and the most

00:40 important woman and I do think we should have a religion dedicated to her.

00:45 What do you reckon that religion would be called? Minoguesm, or Minoguesm, I don't know,

00:54 we can work it out, me and her can work it out, I'll be the CEO. I feel like we

00:59 should work that out after the show, right? I feel like you would be the first

01:02 member, I would be the second, we've got a lot of people excited about Kylie here

01:06 tonight. Yes, I know, because she's the best, she's the greatest of all time.

01:10 She's the queen of pop, one of the many queens of pop. She's my queen of pop,

01:14 she is 100% my queen of pop, I could watch her all day. How did you first come

01:19 across the music? She was omnipresent when I was growing up, because you know, I

01:24 was, what, five years old when the Fever album came out and we didn't really

01:31 have any music that wasn't the radio. I wasn't exposed to any

01:36 alternative music or anything until I was much older, so when I was exposed to

01:42 the radio I think my brain really clung on to anything that was weird and Kylie's

01:46 music is inherently quite alternative and is inherently quite strange. It's

01:50 structurally different, it doesn't follow trends and her music videos and her

01:54 visuals are so inspiring because they're so well thought out, right? So for

02:00 me it was like she was just this beacon of weirdness. That's the only way I can

02:06 describe her, she's weird. I feel like Kylie was one of the pioneers for that.

02:10 Who have you been drawn to now who's doing that as well in their music in

02:14 today's times? Well, I know she's around, I love Caroline Polachek, I feel like

02:20 she's also a real oddball. I saw her at Glastonbury, she was incredible. I don't know where she is.

02:24 I've definitely seen her, so I don't want to speak too loud, I don't want anyone to

02:27 hear me talking about them, that would be very embarrassing. But you know, there's

02:31 lots of people doing alt-pop now, you know, and it's all of

02:36 great quality, so I'm into it. What album have you had on repeat? This last year I

02:45 feel like my favourite record was probably, did you know there's a Tunnel

02:48 Under Ocean Boulevard by Lana Del Rey? I wore that out. I have like two different

02:53 vinyl variants of it. Went to see her at Glastonbury, got very angry at the

02:59 organisers of Glastonbury when they cut her off. There is like a video of me

03:03 somewhere screaming "She wasn't that late!" She wasn't that late. She wasn't that late.

03:08 She wasn't that late, she was half an hour. She had to do her hair. Let a girl live, you know.

03:12 It does take long, it does take long. We don't wake up looking like this, do we?

03:17 No, and she is like one of the most beautiful women on the planet, so let her

03:21 do what she needs to do. We've seen Lana now going towards more of a

03:25 country side. What's that like for you to see that? I love it. I mean, I'm a

03:30 country music maker, you know, like country music is my genre, so seeing

03:34 mainstream artists, and not just mainstream artists, but artists who are so

03:39 brilliantly storied as being excellent writers has been really, really

03:44 important to me, you know, and seeing her, you know, do that John Denver cover, it

03:48 was so beautiful. Like, I just, she'll kill it. She'll be really good. And then

03:53 going forward, 2024, what do we have in store for you? 2024, well I've been

03:58 working on new music. I just came back from studio and I've got a lot of

04:02 touring. I've got like a week and a half of rest before I have to go on a

04:06 month-and-a-half long American tour, and then, festy season, festy season, try to

04:11 squish an album in somewhere in between that. I'm also learning French at the

04:15 moment. I'm trying to learn French, but I'm really bad. I was on stage in France

04:18 the other day, and I was trying to speak French, and they were correcting me the

04:23 whole time in a really earnest way, so I got to work on that more. But yeah, it's

04:28 busy, it's busy, busy. I can't wait to see. Congratulations as well. I hear your

04:35 recent show sold out in two minutes. It must be incredible to see that. It's

04:39 really nice, you know, because all of our effort has been on live. I've

04:43 really, really just been on tour for the past two and a half years, because I

04:46 don't think there's any other PR or promo that you can do other than people just

04:49 hearing you sing live and play live. And you know, I've got a live band. It's like

04:53 a rock and roll country band. We're doing it proper every night of

04:57 the week. So, you know, seeing everything pay dividends, not just for me, but for

05:04 the whole team and for my band and everything. It's just been really nice.

05:07 It's been really, really great. Well, thank you so much for your time. It's been

05:11 lovely speaking to you. Thank you, New Musical Express.

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