Jade and Jamie were doing something else.
sHello, Hannah and Glenn. MI6 are currently monitoring the quality of the intelligence gathered by the Secret Intelligence Service, in response to last year�s Lord Butler report which said that intelligence on Iraqi weapons had been unreliable. How would you make the intelligence more reliable?
Glenn: That�s a tricky question for someone who�s just danced all his life. Not that I�m dim. (?!?) I really don�t know.
Hannah: Can�t you just give them a lie detector test? It works on Trisha, after all. And get Trisha�s body language expert. It�s very simple. Trisha could sort of MI6.
Glenn: It�s just the state of the world, isn�t it. You can�t trust anyone.
sIt�s a sorry state of affairs, is it not.
Glenn: Absolutely.
sHappy with the 'Serious' midweek, currrently Number 14?
Hannah: It�s not awful. And hopefully it'll be Top 10 by Sunday.
Glenn: We�ll just see what happens. We�re just a couple of hundred sales off at the moment so hopefully we can go Top 10 � we�re really busy this week doing TVs and things. We�re doing Des & Mel tomorrow!
sDo you get to meet them?
Glenn: Well. The 411 girls have done it, and they say there�s just a goodie-bag in the dressing room with signed pictures.
Demand to meet the presenters!
Glenn: Well yes. I�m going to try to chat up Mel. I�ll leave Des to Jamie.
sAre your breasts natural?
Hannah: They are now. Well, they�re all real because they�re mine. I do have implants, but�
sThat was actually a question to Glenn.
Glenn: Oh. Well, yes, they�re 100% natural. I saw on the Popjustice messageboard actually that someone was saying my cleavage was bigger than Hannah�s, which I found absolutely hilarious and was very proud of.
sWho does have the best tits?
Glenn: Oh, definitely Hannah. It�s all about Hannah�s breasts, but I�ll keep working on mine.
Hannah: Glenn has nothing on me.
Perhaps Glenn should splash out on some breasts.
Hannah: Perhaps he should. But there�s basically only room for one person with big breasts in this group � and that person is me.
sIn 2005 is pop as much of a minority interest as alternative music was ten years ago?
Hannah: The pop industry�s just a bit pants at the moment. We went to the Brits launch the other night, and everything�s just Embrace, Maroon 5, Libertines� It�s all guitar bands. At one point it was Spice Girls, Take That, Steps, S Club � there�s just no pop at all now. I don�t know if it's that they�re embarrassed of pop music at the Brits but I�m hoping things turn around. Surely the cycle has to change soon. Why aren�t the children getting bored of it?
sYou need to steer things back!
Hannah: Well I know! I am trying!
sAre you excited about Stock, Aitken & Waterman getting back together?
Glenn: Yeah, that�s very very cool. Obviously it worked so far before and they�ll be able to bring back some of the old magic. Their songs were amazing at the time. I haven�t heard any of the new stuff yet � they�ve been very secretive � but when I�m next in the office I�m going to have a nose around and see what I can find. I�d love them to work on some songs for us.
sWill you please cover �I Just Wanna Dance�, with the magnificent lyric �I just wanna fucking dance�, from Jerry Springer: The Opera?
Glenn:I saw that for the first time at the weekend! It�s not the kind of thing I�d ever, ever go to see in the theatre, but I watched it on TV in a hotel room and now I�m going to buy tickets to go and see it. Doing �I Just Wanna Dance� would be very cool.
Hannah: I�ll suggest it to our management. I�d love to do a song with that lyric, but I�m not sure how it would go down as a Pop! single. We�ll just drop the swear word.
But swearing�s big and clever.
Hannah: That must make me really big and really clever, then, because I swear all the time.
sOut of DJing, trains, disco, oxygen, horses and Christmas cakes, which is the best Pete Waterman invention?
Glenn: It�s got to be trains. He�s mad on them. He�s got a golden shovel on his desk to commemorate him being Train Enthusiast Of The Year. He�s so proud of it, bless him, although his train stories, sometimes, are a bit� Well, you do wonder where they�re leading.
sWhat�s your weekly wage?
Glenn: We don�t actually get a wage, we just get paid for our PAs. That�s a lot better than having a wage � then if you make it big you make more money. Lots of bands are on �150 a week, and it�s stupid. That was S Club 7�s problem � they were on a wage and it never changed, whether they had a Number One or not. Obviously before this I was dancing, and working a lot with Kylie and getting good money, and for me working in Pop! isn�t any better, money-wise, at all.
sIs it worse?
Glenn: It�s not much worse. Although it�s harder work. You only really start earning money when the album's out - so bring on April or March.
sAnd the album definitely is coming out, then, in spite of everything?
Glenn: Yes! But I agree that it�s definitely strange for a band like Pop! to have such strong belief from a record label, and most record companies would have dropped Pop! by now. But yesterday when we got the midweek the boss from Jive came up and was, like, �There�s no problem�. It�s good to know they�re not giving up � they believe pop music will come back and that we�ll be there when it does. And it's also good to know we�ve got the album coming out.
sIt�s a bit like being on Bullseye. �The caravan�s safe��
Glenn: Yes, it�s just like that. Shall we have a gamble?
sAre you going to take what�s in the box?
Glenn:Which box?
sThe Pop! box. What do you think might be in it?
Glenn: Er� Crisps for Jade, some revealing tops for Hannah, and mine and Jamie�s porn. Anything goes for me and Jamie, porn-wise. Jamie�s into his porn in a big way. Our hair stylist, Clifford, always brings us loads of porn, and DVDs for Jamie. It�s good when you�ve got friendly people around, people who are friendly enough to give you porn.
sPerhaps you could do porn after Pop!.
Glenn: Well, I could. A couple of weeks ago I was at a club with a friend and there was a (dodgy satellite channel) Babecast party happening at the same place � when their group left they came up and went, �We�re moving on to another club now�� because they thought I was part of the Babecast crew. So we went along to the next club with all these strippers. I guess I could have gone along with it and got a job. I could sit and strip on TV.
sEasy money!
Glenn: It is, actually.
sWhy aren�t you donating all your artist royalties to a tsunami benefit found?
Glenn:Probably because there won�t be any artist royalties, haha!
sBut this is the point! Steve Brookstein would have made fuck all out of �Against All Odds�, but he said he was donating his cash to charity and all of a sudden he was Number One.
Glenn: Good point. We should have done that. But we�re doing some benefit gigs � we�re doing one on the 27th at the Hammersmith Palais. Obviously we�re the biggest act there, Alicia Keys is somewhere below us on the bill though, haha!
Hannah: That's true about Steve, though, and it's an absolute load of nonsense. Maybe he said it because it was PC or whatever but I don�t think it�s worth saying something like that unless you�re actually going to give a fair whack to the charity, you know what I mean?
sWhy don�t you just say now that you�ll donate your artist royalties? That�s got to be good for a couple of hundred sales.
Hannah: I�ve put a fiver in Starbucks� collection, that�s probably more than Steve Brookstein�s royalties will come to.
Glenn: Tell you what � I�ll round my royalties up to a tenner. I�ll add the extra �2.
sIf someone told you that they�d bought your single, would you give them a kiss?
Hannah: No I would not. People do ask, sometimes, and it is my right to say �No�.
Glenn: Oh, I�d definitely do it.
sWhat would you do if they bought ten copies?
Glenn: Well it depends. If it was a girl I�d probably sleep with them, and hopefully I�d be good enough for them to want to go and buy another ten. If it was a guy� I�d let Jamie sleep with them.
sIn the promo shots for �Serious�, what significance can we read into the fact that the two fit members of the band are in black, and the other two are in white?
Glenn: Well, Hannah and I are just darker-skinned. And also we were the baddies in the video, which is why they put us in black, and then the goodies in white.
sRACIST!
Glenn: Oh don't be stupid. I�ll have a word with the director and see if he has racial issues.
sAnd it's not all a precaution against you and Hannah leaving unfortunate skidmarks.
Glenn: No. And fortunately Jamie controlled himself in his white trunks. It was funny when we were given the trunks and we said to the director, �Okay, so what do we wear over these?�. And they were, like, �Er, nothing�.
Hannah: But you can�t really see anything. I have studied the pictures of the boys. You can�t see what�s what. And, at the end of the day, it could all just be padding.
sBefore hearing your cover of �Xanadu�, I was wondering how Pop! could get any more gay. And yet, there it is.
Hannah: Ha! Well I�m happy as Larry with it, the boys are a bit more concerned. It�s time to get camped up, boys! But �Xanadu� isn�t definitely the fourth single, we�re going to have a meeting next week because it might be something else. The other song has got the word �head� in the title and it sounds a bit like �Serious�. There�s an exclusive for you.
sThanks. If Pete Waterman was hit by a train tomorrow�
Hannah: Oh don�t say that!
sHe lives for trains. He�d love it. Anyway, who would you wheel in as a replacement?
Glenn: For the management part, Simon from Blue. (?!?) He�d be the best of a bad bunch. You hear so many bad things about your Simon Fullers or your Simon Cowells that you wouldn�t actually want them to be involved, really.
Hannah: I do think Simon Fuller would make us more money than Simon from Blue.
Glenn: Maybe, but I think Simon from Blue would put everything into you.
sYou�d like Simon from Blue to put everything into you?
Glenn: Yes. Oh. (Laughs) Hang on. I�d like him to put a lot of effort into managing Pop!. Haha! Don�t put �I�d like Simon from Blue to put everything into me� as the headline, please.
sOf course not. Bye!
Glenn: Bye!
Hannah: Bye!
Posted on: January, 18th
by: Giuly
Source: www.popjustice.com