Rita Ora

0:09I'm gonna go to the window Open the curtains to blind and light Hey, it's Matt with MSN.CA, Rita Ora is here, how you doing? Hi, I'm good, I'm happy, how are you? I'm good, I'm excited for this record to come out. Me too, it's about time, right? It's been a while. Is it done? It's been done for a while. It's been three years, I've been doing this for three years, I had a whole album ready and I scrapped it and I started again. Okay. I just didn't feel like it was good enough, I wanted to do it properly so we just did it all over again. Wait a minute. You are gonna put them on? Yeah. See how I can... I wanna party, embersive, embersive, embersive. Let's talk about the record, because we know two of the songs. Yes. We know the one with Tiny Tempo, who you must have just flipped when you heard him, what's the line with the Ora? His first line, he says your name but he's talking about an Ora.

0:54Yes. Like a... It's incredible, I had the best time. It was just so cool, I mean he opened the song saying, you know, sexy, senior year, I feel your Ora, it was just a great kind of slam opening line and I think he killed it. So, it was amazing, it came out great. Your voice sounds, it's got this like, I wanna say Beyonce quality to it, which I mean is a compliment. I'll say that. Yeah. I mean there's a lot of continuity with me and what I'm talking about and how I'm singing, but it's definitely... It's just because growing up I never listen to one type of music, you know. I would listen to, you know, soul music and Jill Scott and Angie Stone and DiAngelo and then I would, the next day, listen to No Doubt and you know I would really flip it up. And I just love music in general, so I would tend to kind of get carried away sometimes. So we know those two songs.

1:48Yes. What are the other ones? There's more songs, there's definitely different styles of songs, it's not a two-tracked album. I have a song on there called Chino Light, which is a reggae influenced song. I did with Fraser T Smith, who is a great UK producer at Song Royale. That is incredible, I can't wait for that to come out. There's also another song called Unfair, which is one of the sincere tracks, which don't really get to see me be. I'm always the fun kind of trying to make people smile person, but everyone has their down days and their song Unfair is one of those days. So it's great. It's a very eclectic album. There's different genres and it's just a very kind of great album to put you through like an emotional rollercoaster, but not a downer, if you know what I mean. And on that note, Marty and Dolce.

2:37Marty and Dolce. You single-dead unfair, so let's talk about that song. So was it presented to you? Did you help write it out? Yeah, no, Estadine, who is a writer, did a few tracks of my album and this Unfair track was one of them and she and I really connected on an emotional kind of note. As soon as I heard it, I started to cry. And she looked at me, she was like, oh my God. And I was like, I don't know what. No, but I really kind of felt this on a such a different level and I wanted the world to hear it and I cannot wait to sing it live. When do we get to see you play live? You know, maybe doing a big tour? Yeah, I'm definitely doing a tour. I'm going to come back here right now. I'm just literally coming just to say hi and doing a few acoustics, but next time I'm here, I'm definitely doing a full on show.

3:22Nice. Yes, sir. Do you have the shows prepared for Coldplay all summer? Yes. Yeah, the shows actually have been going so, so well. The stadiums have been incredible. Literally like 40,000 people at night. I just can't believe that it's like a stadium show. Like, who sells our stadiums? Like, no one can touch Coldplay. I love the fact that they let me open up for them. You know, not being the typical support act for Coldplay. Sure. Just made it that much cooler and it was just such a great experience. Do you prefer playing the big rooms or do you like the intimacy of the small ones? No, I prefer the big rooms only because you can't see everyone's face and you can really just pretend like there's no one there because it's... I like space, so it was nice space. Intimate gigs, you have to kind of look at everyone and really cater to every single person.

4:13I mean, I like to really make sure every single person's right. So if you were in a room with 200 people and I'm like, you're right, are you right? I get a bit like elated and my sister's always like, you need to just relax. I just want everyone to become uncomfortable and happy. Five quick questions. One more answers. Road or studio? It's two different vibes, but that's studio. Landon or McCartney? I don't...no answer. When you hear a song that usually hits you first, lyrics, melody or rhythm? Melody. Song you've written you're most proud of? Probably Rock the Live, just the album, the whole album. In one word, read over.