Amy Macdonald talks about her new album and writing a song for Susan Boyle
Apr 14 2012 By Beverley Lyons
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AMY MacDonald has written a song for Susan Boyle’s next album.
The 24-year-old was asked to submit a track for SuBo’s new record while on a year out from her hectic touring career.
Amy was also busy working on tracks for her own forthcoming album, Life in a Beautiful Light which is released on June 11.
Amy said: “When I was off, my publisher asked me if I would be interested in writing songs for other folk.
“So I wrote this song called Little Things, which is not on the album, for Susan Boyle, and it went right up there. Simon Cowell listened to it but obviously didn’t like it.”
Amy had previously criticised Susan for doing cover versions, so she feels she was helping her to be more original. She said: “I thought Susan should have won Britain’s Got Talent.
“I just said, when she was nominated for a Brit Award, that I felt a lot of her songs were covers and thought it would be better if they were original.
“It wasn’t difficult for me to write for her at all and I was totally happy to write one of those songs for her.”
Amy’s priority was her own album – and her year out paid off.
She said: “I wrote the album when I was really relaxed and chilled. It was brilliant to be normal again and have a normal life and see my friends.
“It was actually really inspiring for me and I came up with so many different songs.”
One of her tracks, a ballad called Left That Body Long Ago, deals with the agony of Alzheimers, from which Amy’s gran suffered before her death a decade ago.
She said: “It’s that horrible stage when someone you love has got Alzheimers and they don’t know about it.
“When my nan was still alive, my mum would always say, ‘Don’t worry, it’s not your nan any more, she’s left that body.’
“That made it easier for me to deal with. So many of my friends now have relatives with the disease.
“I wrote the song for them, because it might help. I’ve not performed it yet at a live show but when I first heard the recorded song I cried.”
Two of Amy’s new tracks look at her relationship with football.
The Green And The Blue, which features crowd chants, touches on the rivalry between Celtic and Rangers, and anthemic Pride is about her performances at Hampden Park.
Amy, who is engaged to footballer Steve Lovell, said: “I write about Rangers and Celtic in a positive way. I would never write a song to bring up bad blood.
“It is a big part of living in this city.
“People focus on the bad side of things which is awful and something I hate.”
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