Vanessa White says her career with The Saturdays has been of no help to her solo career – because her songs are more sexual.
The 27-year-old singer recently unveiled her latest single ‘Good Good’, which is about "being honest with your sexuality" and will feature on her hotly anticipated second solo EP ‘Chapter Two’ which will drop this spring.
Vanessa is now channeling an R&B sound for her music away from the other girls – Frankie Bridge, Una Healy, Rochelle Humes and Mollie King – which means her previous pop experience has been useless to her.
She was asked by PAPER magazine – for which she has been shot by in-demand British photographer-and-director Charlotte Rutherford for a Marie Antoinette-inspired shoot – what kind of foundation The Saturdays had given her as a solo artist.
To which Vanessa replied: "I guess none, because the kind of things that I’m doing is so different I can’t really take anything from that. I’m grateful for it, you do learn a lot of things but I’m happy to start again."
One of the big changes from the chart-friendly tracks she was laying down with The Saturdays to her tunes is the erotically charged lyrical content.
Vanessa explained: "I came from a girl band which was very much pop and very different to this, but I’ve always been such an R&B fan. So I guess for me, it wasn’t even necessarily the music, I wanted to say what I couldn’t say before? I was like screw this I am such a sexual person anyway."
The ‘Lipstick Kisses’ singer says her sexual nature comes from her being the zodiac sign Scorpio.
She said: "I think it’s the best sign but how annoying is it when you tell people you’re a Scorpio and they go, ‘Ooh you’ve got a sting in your tail don’t you?’ It’s like yes I’ve got a sting in my tail if you are rude, if you are evil to me. I don’t think we’re nearly as bad as everyone makes out … I think it’s the sexiest sign. People want to be a Scorpio."
Vanessa has been busy working in the studio with a host of in-demand producers and musicians including the likes of PRGRSN, Wizzy Wow, Shakka, Musicman Ty and Snakehips and has also been collaborating with Rob Heppell, Charlotte Rutherford and Stephanie Sian Smith.
Vanessa White: My Saturdays past hasn’t helped solo songs
