No use in Brian over spilt milk
He may have lost his record deal but Brian McFadden is optimistic about the future. And no, he doesn’t plan on getting back with Kerry.
Paul Nolan, 16 Apr 2007
Brian McFadden seems a much more contented person these days than the last time Hot Press interviewed him, at the end of 2004.
Then, following the revelation that the singer had been on the receiving end of a blow-job from a lap-dancer on his stag night, his marriage to Kerry Katona had just collapsed, and he both looked and spoke like a man at the end of his tether.
Now in a relationship with Australian singer Delta Goodrem, who inspired his new single ‘Like Only A Woman Can’, McFadden appears a lot more comfortable in his own skin. Although of course he has a nasty surprise in store: a few days after this interview, McFadden will be dropped by his label.
“I’m much, much happier,” he affirms, sitting in a quiet spot in the garden of the Merrion Hotel. “I wake up in the morning now and I wanna do things, I wanna write songs. I think I had a real grudge when I was doing the first album; I had a very negative attitude towards everything. Subconsciously, I felt I had to distance myself from what I was doing in Westlife, and I think I also got caught up in wanting to be taken seriously as an artist. Now all I want to do is write the kind of pop songs that people will listen to and think, ‘That’s good’.”
In fairness, McFadden, despite his rough patch a few years back, has survived pop stardom better than many others. Has he been keeping an eye on Robbie Williams’ recent travails?
“I know Robbie,” says McFadden. “I feel sorry for him, I think he’s a bit of a lost soul really. I think he’s got a really big hole in his life and needs something to fill it, whether it’s a partner or what have you. He got so big so soon that he didn’t bring anything real with him. I think he got caught up in being a superstar without having any of the foundations that you need. That’s one thing I’ve never done.
“I’ve still got all my old friends and I’m still very close to my family, and I brought that all with me, I didn’t distance myself from that. Whereas, I think Robbie might have distanced himself a little bit. That’s a problem, because it’s hard to bridge that gap back. And I think it’s very important for anyone in this industry, whether it’s actors or writers or whoever, that you don’t alter your home base. You can have stardom, you can have all the funny bits that go with it, but you should always make sure that behind the scenes it’s still very solid and very normal.”
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