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FOREVER ALWAYS PETER COTTONTALE FT. CHANCE THE RAPPER, DANIEL CEASER, REX ORANGE COUNTY, MADISON RYANN WARD AND YEBBA. PETER COTTONTALE ‘Forever always’ is a collaborative masterpiece featuring up and coming young artists and songwriters. Seeing all these artists together on one track you may not know what to expect, personally I thought it would sound too mashed together to include these popular names, but their different voices blend perfectly over the dreamy keyboard, jazzy guitar and church like choir.  LET ME DOWN JORJA SMITH FAMM ‘Let me down’   by Jorja Smith featuring Stormzy is a song that hit me like a tonne of bricks. When I first heard this song her silky vocals had me melting and when I read further into the lyrics I wanted to cry, you can hear her emotions while she sings these words. Stormzy   fits perfectly into the track, you know when someone just throws a rapper into their song to get more recognition (*cough* ‘Girls like you – Maro...

I'm going to start with a ego-booster, Rocksbackpages wrote a biography page about you, and they described you as 'hugely influential on a whole generation of new critics'. How did you become 'hugely influential'? I don't think I've been influential, I changed a few peoples heads about hip hop music and about how seriously it should be taken. What I have done is helped other writers get work and get their voice through. I remember a lad called Stevie Chick who used to write me letters at melody maker and I loved his writing and I just said 'look Stevie just phone up and say i'd like to try to write' and he did and he now has loads of books out and he's had a great career and that makes me feel massively proud. Your breakthrough came after sending Melody Maker a letter moaning about their writing, did you expect them to come back saying write for us then? Did you expect this career to come out of that? No, thats like an 8 year old kid wr...

What was it like moving all the way from Portugal to Birmingham? Moving to birmingam was, at the beginning, a funny experience because i came with my boyfriend and he stayed here with me for a week. The first impression I had, of Birmingham, was that the city was (had a) very dark and metal city and alternative (music scene) and i loved it. I think that it was easy to adapt myself to a different country and city. My boyfriend left me here to stay on my own, because he had to work in Portugal, on the first day after I left the airport I was so scared but as I am sharing a flat with a Portugeese girl it was easier to find a place in the city and I'm really enjoying it. At the beginning I thought I'd miss my family and friends so much but that is not happening and I think it's quite good for me because I can concentrate on my studies and I'm not thinking too much about my family or friends. Is there much difference between the music...

The Skills I Have. Personality traits I have as ab ESFJ; Organized - keeping deadlines and information about projects clear and in a safe space. Can be depended on to follow things through to completion -finishing projects on time and to a good standard. Enjoy creating order, structure and schedules -managing time well, being able to carry more than one project at a time. Enjoy interacting with people -working with a range of people without having barriers between us Warm-hearted and sympathetic Very cooperative, good team members Practical and down-to-earth E njoy variety, but work well with routine tasks -being flexible to follow a story wherever it ends up, but also likes knowing what I will be doing from day to day so can struggle with the constant change. Need approval from others -can add pressure while writing making you write as someone you're not. Always could just mean you try harder at what you're good at to impress people. Live in the here and now - di...