Is the album going to win over non-Westlife fans?
Mark: It’s made for Westlife fans. It’s not made for people who already hate Westlife and we’re not making albums to try and convince fans of trendy pop music that we’re cool. We make pop music for our fans. Nicky: It’s safe to say there are people we are never going to win over. Mark: It’s not electro pop, it’s not trendy pop, it is commercial Westlife pop music. So this is not Westlife’s ‘Rudebox’? Mark: We definitely went down a certain road for a while but this album and we’re not saying the new album is going to be credible or critically acclaimed, we never ever will be, but it’s definitely going back to pop music. Nicky: We’ve got a good thing going here. We’re four lads in our twenties, we sing well together so let’s make pop music. Mark is right, we’ve made one too many cover versions, last year’s ‘Love’ album probably sold more off the title than it did from the quality of the songs, even though we’ll stand up for our vocals 100%. People will always expect us to do a love albu
