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Jem feels like she’s been on ice
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 29 January 2009
Singer Jem has said that she feels as though she’s been frozen for the last couple of years whilst waiting to bring out her new album, ‘Down To Earth’, which is due out in the UK in February.
The Welsh singer, real name Jemma Griffiths, said of the wait: “It feels like a long time, only because it was supposed to come out in 2007 and I was frozen liken Hans Solo for two years during label politics. I had to stop recording halfway through the record and then start again and finish it so it’s been longer than I would’ve wished. But it wasn’t my fault, it wasn’t me”.
On the differences between life in LA and life in the UK, she added: “LA is totally different to Wales, although when it rains there – which isn’t very often – it looks like Wales, it gets really green except for the palm trees if you forget about them. I signed a deal in America so when I went there it wasn’t like shunning the UK or anything, I honestly think that everyone thinks it’s got a bad reputation, but if everyone moved there and saw the quality of life it’s really not as hideous as what people think, it’s a really nice place to live”.
