DJ Ron Slomowicz: Where does the name Sugababes come from?
Keisha: Basically the name Sugababes was a nickname given to us when we were really young, when we first started out at like eleven years old. Our manager used to always just say, ah these are my little sugar babies. When we were about to get signed to the record company, we said before you sign us, can you drop the 'babies' and keep it as the 'babes', so when we get older babes will be known as maybe not so cute but sexy, more so of the babies part?
RS: Very awesome. Now that you're coming to America, what are your aspirations for the United States?
Mutya: We've come over here hoping that our music will cross over and people get will get what we're doing, and hopefully enjoying it, just seeing how it goes. We're not under any illusion that we're going to break America easily, we just have been given the opportunity and are going to have a go.
RS: Awesome. I don't think it's really fair to describe you as a chart pop act because you've maintained such an edginess and credibility even as you've achieved pop success. How do you work to achieve this edginess or is it just in the way you approach your music?
Mutya: It's the way we approach our music. I think if you try too hard, the audience will be able to just see right through you and right through your music. One thing about the Sugababes that people love is that our music is one hundred percent us and it's completely real, and that's what we like to do. We don't really sit there thinking OK, we need to keep it cool everyone, we need to keep it cool, because that's just not what we did, we just like being ourselves really.
RS: I notice you all have co-written just about every one of your hits, for you all what is the songwriting process like?
Keisha: When we go into the studio we listen to the beat and we come up a concept, like relationships. Then we'll each go off into different parts of the room and I'll write my verse on maybe about a break-up, Mutya will write hers about a make-up and Heidi will write hers about maybe falling in love for the first time or something. That's what we do and then we come together. So normally, when we have a co-writer all they'll write is the chorus. We try to write our own verses because we know our voices better than anyone else, and we also want the fans to get to know us as individuals too.
