<http://schema.org/articleBody>
"Her stage name might sound like a schoolyard taunt, but Slow Moving Millie&amp;#039;s rise to fame in the last two months has been anything but sluggish.  Following the success of Ellie Goulding&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Your Song&amp;#039; on last year&amp;#039;s John Lewis Christmas advert, the actress and singer-songwriter - real name is Amelia Warner - was selected to sing a cover of The Smiths&amp;#039; &amp;#039;Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want&amp;#039; for this year&amp;#039;s festive commercial. With said song scaling the charts and her new album Renditions - a collection &amp;#039;80s hits turned on their head - out this week, we met up with her to find out how she&amp;#039;s handling her newfound fame.  Are you known as Slow Moving Millie because you&amp;#039;re really lazy? &amp;quot;I hope it&amp;#039;s not about that! It came about because I was an actress for quite a long time and wasn&amp;#039;t particularly happy doing it. I&amp;#039;d write music just for myself, and my friends were always on at me to take it further. I probably am a bit lazy too, though. I also liked the safety of writing and releasing music under a different name.&amp;quot;  Your song &amp;#039;Beasts&amp;#039; previously featured on the Virgin Media advert in 2009 and your latest cover is for the John Lewis Christmas advert. How did they come about? &amp;quot;I did some composing for some films, which was like a transition from acting to singing. It&amp;#039;s something I&amp;#039;d like to keep doing. It was a good way to start without it being all about me. After the Virgin deal I finally got some money behind me to leave acting and leap into the music properly. &amp;quot;It was my manager who got me involved with the John Lewis ad. It was a situation where they knew what song they wanted and had sent it out to lots of different artists. I was recording my covers album anyway, and my manager asked me to try it out without telling me what it was for. It was about two months later when I found out it was being used for the advert.&amp;quot;  Ellie Goulding&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Your Song&amp;#039; did well last year; are you hoping for similar success with &amp;#039;Please Please&amp;#039;? &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s definitely a good break and it can be a great platform. There are so few opportunities in the industry now, and this is a great way to get your music out to as many people as possible. The John Lewis ad is also like the holy grail of ads, and it&amp;#039;s a great company to be associated with.&amp;quot;  It&amp;#039;s quite an emotional advert - did you cry at it too? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve seen it a lot so I&amp;#039;m immune to it now, but the first time I saw it I did cry. That little boy is so cute! He&amp;#039;s fantastic.&amp;quot;   Your album Renditions transforms &amp;#039;80s pop hits by the likes of Yazoo and Tears for Fears; have you also been a fan of that genre? &amp;quot;It just kind of came about. I was writing my debut album of original stuff and the covers thing was a side project. I&amp;#039;m randomly drawn to songs from that era because I think they often get a really bad rep. A lot are really beautiful songs but because they were written in the &amp;#039;80s when the production was lairy, shiny and synthetic. A lot of great ballads suffered from overeager producers. I love all of the originals, but they shouldn&amp;#039;t have that guilty pleasure label.&amp;quot;  We&amp;#039;re especially a fan of your Bananarama &amp;#039;Love in the First Degree&amp;#039; cover. Will it be a future single? &amp;quot;Thanks! I love that song - I was so pleased with how it turned out. I think there&amp;#039;s talk of releasing &amp;#039;Feels Like Heaven&amp;#039; because it&amp;#039;s upbeat, fun and very different from &amp;#039;Please Please&amp;#039;. It&amp;#039;s a brave concept for an album; did you have any trouble convincing your label? &amp;quot;I remember some of the label were concerned about me covering Bananarama because they thought no-one would take it seriously. The album isn&amp;#039;t necessarily tongue-in-cheek, but it&amp;#039;s about having fun. I think they work, and I don&amp;#039;t think it should matter who did them originally or whether it&amp;#039;s cool or not.&amp;quot; Does your original material have a similar sound to this record? &amp;quot;There are certain tracks that are similar to my own music. The &amp;#039;Don&amp;#039;t Go&amp;#039; cover is quite similar to my style. My music tends to be layered up, whereas the covers here are a lot more stripped back. The two bonus tracks on the album are my own, which also serves as a bit of an introduction to my music.&amp;quot;  Would you have ever considered applying for The X Factor? &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t think I could do it. I love the show and I&amp;#039;m full of admiration of the people who go through it, but I don&amp;#039;t know how I could audition in front of all those people. I haven&amp;#039;t got the backbone for it. I&amp;#039;d fall to pieces! There&amp;#039;s just no way. &amp;quot;I was really pleased for Little Mix, although I loved Marcus too because he&amp;#039;s a fellow scouser. The girls just managed to out-do him on the night, whereas Marcus seemed to choke on the final. I actually quite like their version of &amp;#039;Cannonball&amp;#039; - I almost wanted it to kick off more and become a full-on dance track! Maybe I only loved it because I was caught up in the moment - it&amp;#039;s obviously not the ideal song for them, but who cares?&amp;quot;  Slow Moving Millie&amp;#039;s new album Renditions is out now. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://www.digitalspy.com/music/interviews/a355937/slow-moving-millie-interview-i-cried-at-john-lewis-ad/>