"If someone really f**king pisses you off, how cool is it to be able to put that into a song and have that played around the world?" asks a happy Danny O'Donoghue, who has returned as a coach on season 2 of The VoiceUK
Danny returns with all last year’s coaches and his new BFF international music star Will.i.am. It is somewhat surprising after we last saw them bickering over "talent" and tactics on Saturday nights last year.
"We always have disagreements on the show but it's always about music, it's always about 'try harder', he's a great tactician as well. He says 'I've got tic tacs that stay fresh, oh yeah', which I think is hilarious.
"On the TV show we are bickering back and forth, but not because I hate him, but because he didn't do something right with his artist. As soon as the cameras are off, he's slapping my hand and having the crack, so he's exactly the same as on the telly but even more passionate," O'Donoghue reveals.
Danny was obviously thrilled to get the chance to work with and get to know Will - who as part of the Black Eyed Peas has sold an estimated 56 million records worldwide and produced some of music's biggest stars: "What no one got to see him do on the show, which he's best at, is producing and writing. He's a true genius."
The most surprising part of doing ‘Hall Of Fame’ with Will was after they finished recording. "I thought he was going to produce it but he just gave it to me and Mark (Sheehan) and said 'you guys go and produce it.' I thought 'wow I get the chance to produce Will,' that's a lot of trust, bloody too much at this stage in my career."
There is no denying that it is an upbeat motivational track that they've created are the The Script getting a bit political?
“If you look at some of our older stuff you could say the same, ‘We Cry’, and the best example of that would be ‘The First Time.’ That was all about how Ireland was at that time. You could argue that it still is with the recession. It can be any town, any Country anywhere if you look at the world today. So I don’t think we have changed from our roots. We may be lucky doing something we love and God love all our fans for that. The message we wanted to get across was to tell people don’t try to be famous just for the sake of it”
It's a subject that he clearly feels strongly about: "Work hard, be a politician, be a school teacher, be all these things and the pillars of community that are missing because everyone 'wants to be on the telly'. Be something, and then, who knows, you might become famous in the eyes of people around you."
Hall Of Fame features on the current album #3 and fans of The Script's trademark break-up songs such as The Man Who Can't Be Moved and Break Even were far from disappointed .Having split from his girlfriend of four years last June, Danny once again poured his heart out on this album. Songs such as Glowing and If You Could See Me Now are classic The Script love songs. Danny says: "Music has always been a way to get away and it's therapeutic to talk about things that go on in your life."
The Script could be accused of being unimaginative with the title for their third album - is there anything deep behind the name #3?
"We use it as a way to guess people's ages, anyone above 20 is a number 3, anyone below is hashtag 3," he jokes.
"We recorded the album in studio three, I grew up at Number 3, I live in Flat 3 and there's three of us in the group. We didn't want a big statement like How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb.
"Three obviously is a magic number, part of Irish history and the Holy Trinity, there are a lot of connotations. Adele's record 19 represented her age and ours represents our mental age, three," he laughs.
O'Donoghue says he's already got what he wanted from the album: "I hope that we bleed on the page," and I've got a feeling The Script fans will get what they want too.
But for now we are back working on ‘The Voice’ and all our usual fighting and bickering is back and better than ever.
Source: Dublin Weekender / Edited: DannyODonoghue.Net
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