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Q: What’s the next step?
Ne-Yo: Well like I said, I’m putting the finishing touches on my second album right now. That’s really my main focus other than the promotion of this movie right now. So writing for a whole bunch of people – to name a few – Britney Spears, just did some stuff for her in New York; Whitney Houston is coming back – strong, strong, strong, strong, strong, strong – oh yeah, she’s coming back; Celine Dion is another one I’m about to go in with really, really soon. Hey man, I’m trying to start 2007 off with a bang.
Q: How did Celine Dion come up?
Ne-Yo: That was a shock to me. My publisher is good friends with somebody in her camp. She’s about to finish up the show that she has in Vegas right now and you know they said they were talking about her putting another album together so they were going down the list of people she normally works with and my publisher threw my name in the mix and she said, ‘Oh!, him (tapping the table loudly). I want that guy.’
Q: So Celine Dion handpicked you?
Ne-Yo: Yeah.
Q: Can you talk a little bit like when you sit in the room with Celine or Britney, what’s your process in terms of getting information out of them and how does it influence your songs?
Ne-Yo: Pretty much the same way that this is going on. You ask questions and you get the answers. I haven’t got the opportunity to meet Celine yet. I haven’t started working on that project yet but they reached out and said that she definitely wants me to be a major part of her project. As far as Britney, her whole thing was she’s tired of talking about Kevin, tired of comeback songs. She said she has a CD disk changer of 12 CD’s full of Britney’s back songs and she was like, ‘Can I just make a song? Does it have to be my triumphant return every time?’ And you know, I was like, ‘I see your point.’ So I didn’t give her one of those. She’s like, ‘I just want hit records. That’s all.’ So I said, ‘Look, alright.’
Ne-Yo: Well like I said, I’m putting the finishing touches on my second album right now. That’s really my main focus other than the promotion of this movie right now. So writing for a whole bunch of people – to name a few – Britney Spears, just did some stuff for her in New York; Whitney Houston is coming back – strong, strong, strong, strong, strong, strong – oh yeah, she’s coming back; Celine Dion is another one I’m about to go in with really, really soon. Hey man, I’m trying to start 2007 off with a bang.
Q: How did Celine Dion come up?
Ne-Yo: That was a shock to me. My publisher is good friends with somebody in her camp. She’s about to finish up the show that she has in Vegas right now and you know they said they were talking about her putting another album together so they were going down the list of people she normally works with and my publisher threw my name in the mix and she said, ‘Oh!, him (tapping the table loudly). I want that guy.’
Q: So Celine Dion handpicked you?
Ne-Yo: Yeah.
Q: Can you talk a little bit like when you sit in the room with Celine or Britney, what’s your process in terms of getting information out of them and how does it influence your songs?
Ne-Yo: Pretty much the same way that this is going on. You ask questions and you get the answers. I haven’t got the opportunity to meet Celine yet. I haven’t started working on that project yet but they reached out and said that she definitely wants me to be a major part of her project. As far as Britney, her whole thing was she’s tired of talking about Kevin, tired of comeback songs. She said she has a CD disk changer of 12 CD’s full of Britney’s back songs and she was like, ‘Can I just make a song? Does it have to be my triumphant return every time?’ And you know, I was like, ‘I see your point.’ So I didn’t give her one of those. She’s like, ‘I just want hit records. That’s all.’ So I said, ‘Look, alright.’
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