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The 25-year-old Mancunian-raised singer has a new album
out in stores now called Doo-Wops &
Hooligans — and it’s
getting rave reviews
Matt isn't shy about his affinity for sex.
The "Locked Out of Heaven" crooner explains that the taboo
topic "feels good to sing about" in the
"It
feels ... sexy," he’s quoted saying. "It puts you in a sexy frame of
mind. It feels good to project. Sex is a great party starter."
Matt, 21,
whose real name is Peter Hernandez, told the mag that his song "Locked Out
of Heaven" is really about his favorite female body part, "in the
most beautiful, passionate, sexy way ever."
Still on the
topic, Matt discusses his song "Gorilla," and the discomfort even the
first line of the lyrics creates for him.
"You
don't think I knew the backlashes that might come with that song?" he
wrote. "You know, like the first line is 'I got a body full of liquor with
a cocaine kicker.'"
He alludes
to the elephant in the room - his Las Vegas cocaine bust shortly after bursting
on the pop scene with hit song “Just the Way You Are.”
In 2010 Matt was arrested in Sin City and subsequently charged with cocaine possession. The
singer had to take education courses and perform community service in exchange
for the case's dismissal.
"I was
young, man! I was in f---ing Vegas," he tells me, "I wasn't
thinking.”
“I was given
a number one record and I'm out doing dumb sh--.”
Matt reportedly lied to authorities about having done cocaine before.
"I
don't know where that came from," he said. "I was really intoxicated.
I was really drunk. So a lot of that is a big blur, and I try every day to
forget and keep pushing."
Though his
smiling mugshot from the incident will forever be associated with his story,
the chart-topping singer-songwriter is widely heralded for his latest album,
“Unorthodox Jukebox,” and slew of hit records he's produced with his group -
The Smeezingtons - for other artists like Cee Lo Green and B.o.B.
Speaking
with Matt I asked him if he often cooks himself
A little bit. I can get down. I can make pop tarts. (laughs)
Actually I can. I learned a lot from my mom.
After finding out what his inspiration was for creating the
album I asked how long it took to create the album
It took a while … it took years and years and years,
truthfully. “Talking To The Moon” was the first song that I wrote after we
produced a couple of songs for other people. Then one time, I thought I could
write a song for myself. So, I got on the piano and I wrote “Talking To The
Moon”.
And then we did “Count On Me”, “Somewhere in
Brooklyn”, and “The Other Side”. The songs that you hear on the EP. That was
what he had before we submitted “Nothing On You” and “Billionaire” to Atlantic
Records.
Loud Magazine would like to thank Matt for taking time out of his busy tour Schedule to do this interview with us here and would like to wish him luck on his new album being released 1st August 2014, Availble online, on ITunes and in any major record store.
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