You have to take an element of those things and then bring something fresh and new to it, which was something that I learned when I was working with the late, amazing Amy Winehouse on her album "Back to Black." A lot of fuss was made about the sonic of the album that myself and Salaam Remi, the other producer, achieved, how we captured this long-lost sound, but without the very, very 21st-century personality and firebrand that was Amy Winehouse and her lyrics about rehab and Roger Moore and even a mention of Slick Rick, the whole thing would have run the risk of being very pastiche, to be honest.
Много было шума о звучании альбома, которого я и Салаам Реми, другой продюсер, достигли, о том, как мы записали давно потерянный звук, но без индивидуальности 21-го века, и бунтарки, какой была Эми Уайнхаус, и её текстов песнен о реабилитации и Роджере Муре, и даже упоминании о Слик Рике — всё это рисковало стать, говоря по правде, мешаниной.