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Hits Radio Breakfast | 21.05

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Niall Horan & Anne-Marie Play Who’s Most Likely To?

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niall via billboard IG story | 25.05

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niall via billboard IG story | 25.05

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I found it hard at the start because everyone was trying to be creative. Every time you looked online, someone was baking, someone was painting, someone was doing, like- It was very like, 'Oh, we have loads of time now, we must create!' and I was like, 'Jesus!', so I just kind of did nothing for about 6 months, to be honest. Cause I'd just written an album and had just released it, so I was like, 'I'm done with the writing thing for a while.' But then I found it really good. What I've noticed off the back of it and having been in the studio writing my own stuff is that conceptually, it's been really good. You have more time with your own thoughts. You have more time to actually think, like, 'How to I story-tell here?' Cause the best part and the easiest part about songwriting is if you walk into a room and you know exactly what you want to say before you've even walked into the room, you take hours off it. Like, Anne Marie straight away was like, 'I'll be honest, I'm alright with me', and that sums up her whole album, because her album's called Therapy, so she's been doing therapy. And if you're able to say in the opening line of a song, 'I'll be honest, I'm alright with me', you know you've done alright. So conceptually, it's a good place to be in!

Niall on whether the pandemic was a help or a hindrance for creativity on RTE 2FM Breakfast | 02.06

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Niall: We haven’t really decided if we’re putting out [the second song they wrote]. The conversations are kind of happening in interviews, we’ve found these days. People go, “Are you putting them out?” and we kind of look at each other and go, “Are we?” [Laughs] We’ll see. But yeah, we really like it. It’s a completely different vibe.

Anne Marie: Very different! We recorded it at the same time. So, like, for example- on Our Song, I’d go up on the mic, record my verse, vice versa, I’d sit down, Niall would get up, record his verse. But on this song, we both stood at the microphone and recorded it live with each other, both at the same time, and I’ve never experienced anything like it. It was brilliant.

Niall: It makes the vocal sound fun! Like, when you hear it, it sounds like we’re having fun, and that’s the reason we did it. We set up two microphones, kinda like they used to do in the old days. I used to see videos of Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks singing and they would be just, like, a couple feet away from each other, and that’s what we did for this. And it’s kind of like a.... How would you describe it? Kinda guitar-driven, Tom Petty meets Kate Perry meets....[shrug] I don’t know! [laughs]

—Niall and Anne Marie on the second song they wrote together, MYX Phillippines | 14.06

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Anne Marie & Niall Horan on BBCR1 with Nick Grimshaw | 28.07

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#cinematic parallels