{"id":411,"date":"2009-07-23T07:24:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T07:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/?p=411"},"modified":"2014-10-29T01:32:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T01:32:25","slug":"take40-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/take40-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Take40 Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/022-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"022\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/022-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/022.jpg 603w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>On what <em>Devilicious<\/em> means: &#8220;To me it just means girl power and having fun, and being a little bit cheeky but in a good way, and being a little bit devilish, and really being positive about self-image and being a girl in a nightclub, dancing away and getting rid of your fear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m excited, I&#8217;m nervous, I&#8217;m you know worried about what&#8217;s gonna happen with it, but most of all it&#8217;s just great to finally be out and for people to be able to download it and start getting feedback.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the feedback: &#8220;It&#8217;s mixed and it was always gonna be mixed and I&#8217;m not gonna lie and say, &#8216;Oh my god it&#8217;s all positive!&#8217; But I think we&#8217;re definitely breaking some ground. People are really listening to the track for what it is. It&#8217;s been four years since anybody&#8217;s really heard me sing and I think this track does what it&#8217;s supposed to: it showcases my vocals great and shows that I&#8217;ve progressed and I&#8217;m a pop diva, pop artist now! So it&#8217;s good fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m so lucky to have a huge gay following, and you know, one of my dreams is to get a float at Mardi Gras so <em>[laughs]<\/em> I think it&#8217;s great, and I think the great thing about doing pop-dance is you can get different DJ&#8217;s to remix the track and it sounds completely different. So I really wanna hit the clubs and start performing this track. I can&#8217;t wait to tour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Looking back on the young girl that appeared in the opening ceremony, what advice would you give to her if you could talk to her now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d probably say, &#8216;Surround yourself with good people.&#8217; And&#8230; yeah, I guess I&#8217;d say that but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d say anything else because I think the great thing about what I did was the fact that I wasn&#8217;t media fed. It was innocent. Everything I did was innocent. There was no, I&#8217;ve said it before, there was no handbook, there was no &#8216;everybody knew what they were gonna do, this is stage-by-stage&#8217;. We were just flying, like we had sunglasses on, no-one knew what was coming next. &#8216;Okay, they called, let&#8217;s do that, let&#8217;s do that! Okay cool, that sounds fun, why don&#8217;t we do that?&#8217; And we just went with it. If we made mistakes, we did, but I don&#8217;t live with regret, so I probably would just say, &#8216;Go out and have a good time and do what you do best and entertain.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you think about songs like <em>Strawberry Kisses<\/em> now, these days?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love it! I wish I wrote the track! <em>[laughs]<\/em> The great thing about it is it doesn&#8217;t matter how old people are, they still remember the chorus, and to me that&#8217;s a great sign of a pop song. I can be out with my friends and young guys will come up and they&#8217;ve had a few drinks and they&#8217;ll be singing <em>Strawberry Kisses<\/em>, and yeah they don&#8217;t know all the words, but they know the tune, and it amazes me! I&#8217;m like, &#8216;How do you know the tune? It so wouldn&#8217;t have been cool when you were 14, 15 to like Nikki Webster.&#8217; So, I mean they&#8217;re taking the piss out of me when they&#8217;re singing it to me but I kinda get in there and sing it with them and go, &#8216;This is great!&#8217; So I think it&#8217;s one of those songs that has been passed down in generations for some reason. At my dance studio I have five year olds singing it to me and they weren&#8217;t even born, so it&#8217;s obviously been passed down. It&#8217;s a good song.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.take40.com\/\">Take40.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.take40.com\/artists\/1320\/nikki-webster?movideo_p=1676&amp;movideo_m=11687\">Watch the video here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On what Devilicious means: &#8220;To me it just means girl power and having fun, and being a little bit cheeky but in a good way, and being a little bit devilish, and really being positive about self-image and being a girl in a nightclub, dancing away and getting rid of your fear.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m excited, I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/take40-interview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Take40 Interview<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13,22,24,33],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","tag-devilicious","tag-interviews","tag-strawberry-kisses","tag-transcripts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}