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Darren Scott of Pink Paper Magazine inteviews Sarah and Sean, and whilst reading this interview i found myself making Sean & Sarah voices in my head! whilst continualy laughing to myself.
Last year’s X Factor duo Same Difference are hesitant to admit they’re sick of doing "kiddie" interviews. The siblings pull faces and look at each other fleetingly as they consider the question. After all, their career so far has largely been geared towards the vertically challenged.
That is, until their debut album Pop hits the shelves. One online poster has reviewed it as "clearly made exclusively for gay men and a small proportion of children", before saying that he was "drenched in gayness" by the experience.
Not at all dissimilar to spending time with them then, as on this particular afternoon even the Pink Paper feels out-camped when meeting Sean and Sarah Smith.
The pair are just about the nicest, happiest people we’ve come across. And no, it’s actually not annoying in the slightest. They’re extremely funny and a genuine pleasure to be around. Hmm. Perhaps there are subliminal messages in the music after all.
Either way, it seems they’re grateful to be able to chat.
"There are times when you think ‘Oh, I want to have an adult conversation about life’," Sarah laughs.
Well then, if we’re going to have an adult conversation we might as well ask about the slight oddness of a brother and sister duo singing love songs.
"We’ve got to, haven’t we and there’s nothing you can do about it," Sean suggests. Sarah nods. "It’s a song. We’re not sat there singing it to one another and looking in each other’s eyes. We made sure, one week on the show, that I was dancing with a bloke and Sean was dancing with a girl so you didn’t have that. But when it was love week there was nothing we could do. We couldn’t turn around and go ‘no sorry, we don’t want you to do love week because we’re brother and sister’," she laughs.
Sean adds: "Look at The Carpenters, they had so many. We’ve Only Just Begun," he starts before Sarah joins in and the pair, as they often do, finish the sentence together - "nobody ever says anything about that."
Sarah sighs, but still smiles. "I think it’s really sad in society that people can listen to a song by a brother and sister and go ‘they’re singing a love song, that’s wrong’. Surely it would be nice if brothers and sisters could get on. We’re two singers, we’re a boy and a girl, we’re going to have to at some point mention the word love because that’s what every song has got in. You look at every album and it’s got it in it."
Speaking of love, we mention that Sean was the only male contestant to get a kiss from Dermot O’Leary. Sean beams and then instantly turns red while Sarah laughs hard.
"Yes!" he punches, as though he’s won a prize. Sarah is practically in hysterics as we ask how that was for him.
"I got two actually," he corrects us. "One he did it by accident. He gave Sarah a kiss and he came in to me and went to shake my hand but his cheek came out the side of mine," he laughs and gets somewhat flustered. "Ohhh!"
Sarah once again helps out. "Then another week where he went like this [goes to shake hands] and Sean went like this [points at cheek]"
Sean shrugs. "To be honest with you it was great. I just thought it was funny."
Sarah beams. "With our image we always come across as really fun and up for anything, having a laugh. It’s like ‘so what, why has everything go to be so politically correct’?"
Sean agrees. "We like that whole thing of just let go. Go with your instincts, go with the flow. Just enjoy life."
It’s apparent that they do, and it’s alarmingly infectious, but they admit they do get tired of being upbeat all the time.
"There are times," Sean says. Sarah joins in. "It’s natural for our personalities to be excitable and bubbly, that’s who we are, but everyone has down days. I’m going to have days when I’ve got PMS and want to kill the world."
They both burst out laughing before Sean turns to look at his sister with a mock-stern expression.
"That’s sick. We don’t want to know about that Sarah."
She hoots. "It’s going to happen! We’re going to have days when we’re knackered and it’s like ‘I don’t want to do this today’ but we always get over it you know? We are naturally happy people and tend to look on the bright side. We never go ‘oh that’s rubbish and the world’s bad’. There’s so much stuff going on about everything being bad that we want to make it a bit happy again. It’s like ‘when we were growing up there never seemed to be these troubles’."
We suggest that at 20 and 23 they’re a little too young to be saying that.
"But it’s true!" Sean pipes up. "When you’re a kid you don’t care about anything, it’s such a carefree thing isn’t it? As you get older you get more cynical, you’re like ‘why can’t we always live our lives like that?’"
And so back to their audience once more. With more than a cheeky nod to High School Musical they agree they attract a similar fan base. But, we ask, they must be aware that the gays are flocking like magpies to the shininess of SD.
"Yes. Yay!" Sarah laughs.
"To be honest with you, we LOVE doing gigs in gay bars and gay clubs," Sean adds quickly. "We ABSOLUTELY love it. They’re always fun, they’re always brilliant, everyone’s always up for a laugh. To us, every time we find out what we’re doing: ‘where are we playing tonight, oh it’s a gay bar’.."
They both suddenly shout: "Brilliant!"
"Gay Pride and all of that, we love it," Sarah grins. "It’s such a good atmosphere and I think when we go to these gigs they’re always fun and they’re always up for a laugh. You go to the normal - well not normal, but the nights where it’s a heterosexual night - and you do get some people that are a bit ‘hurr’ [pulls face] You know what I mean? You go there and everyone’s just like ‘love it, brilliant’."
The gays, we suggest, are loyal.
"Definitely," Sarah nods.
The gays also, apparently, want to know about their cover version of a Kylie song.
"Every gay guy that we’ve come across has been like ‘right, you’re covering Turn It Into Love, I’ve seen it on the internet, can I hear it?’" Sarah says. "Sean’s best friend is gay and he literally doesn’t care about the rest of the album, all he wants to hear is Turn It Into Love." she laughs.
Also on the cards is a return to the show that spawned them, with an appearance pencilled in for the pair to perform their debut single We R One.
"They’re going to throw out all the stops. It’s going to be like what we did last year on heat," Sean jokes.
"It’s going to be puppies, bubbles..." Sarah laughs.
They’d be hard pushed to beat the finals last year, which saw them being lifted to the top of giant Christmas trees.
"I think we’re actually going to have personal flying packs this year," Sarah deadpans. "That’s going to be the way forward. Simon’s going to get them from America and we’re going to fly in on these little jet packs [sings We R One wobbly]. Supergirl!"
Throughout our interview the pair have sung, done dance routines (while sat down), gone off on tangents about shoes and - in Sarah’s case at least - told a joke about poo which comes with actions. There have also been handclaps. But, we can’t let them go without asking at least one "kiddie" question. Little did we know asking "if you were a sweet, what sweet would you be" would open the floodgates of pop.
"I’d be a Haribo heart," Sarah says instantly. "The little cute foamy ones from the star mix, because I think I’m soft and squidgy."
She laughs as Sean as looks quizzical. "What would I be?" he asks.
"You’d be a sour cherry! No I’m only joking!"
"A sour cherry?!"
"Sean’s a sour cherry and I’m a soft and squidgy heart!"
"That’s harsh. Although sour cherries are the nice ones out of the pack."
"They’re everybody’s favourite but they’re really sour though. I’m joking!"
"You’re harsh! That’s way harsh that is!"
"‘Sarah hate’s her brother’, that’ll be the headline."
"Sarah’s liquorice because they taste disgusting."
"I’m liquorice because they taste disgusting? Sean!!"
They quite literally can’t talk for laughing. Again, it’s infectious. But we still haven’t answered the burning question. Exactly what kind of sweet would Sean be?
"That’s a really tough one because you need to say ‘I’m this kind of sweet because...’"
"You’re a gummi bear."
"I don’t want to be a gummi bear."
"What’s wrong with being a gummi bear? You’re a...."
"Cadbury’s Crème Egg?"
They both crack up and Sarah suddenly shouts: "You can eat him in so many ways!"
Sean’s jaw drops and his voice breaks. "Oh my god! You’re disgusting! You’re sick! You’re sick! I don’t believe she’s saying that! From my sister!"
Sarah rolls around the couch in absolute fits, not helped when we tell Sean that there are plenty of our readers that would like to eat him in many ways.
When they eventually stop hooting, Sean wipes his face. "I’ve gone red now, look. I’m sweating and red."
"I just thought of it randomly because of the adverts - ‘how do you eat yours’," Sarah explains.
"I know. When I came out with Cadbury’s Crème Egg I was just asking for that really wasn’t it."
"I’m a Kit Kat because I’m chunky."
"Take a Break."
When we eventually get them to stop talking about sweets, we turn to what lies ahead and talk of an aborted TV show.
"Isn’t there a chance that maybe one day if we’re successful and kids would definitely 100 per cent watch it then maybe we would get a show?" Sarah asks her brother, as though hopeful. "I’d love to do it. It’s a dream of mine to have a TV show where I’d just burst into song in the middle. I’d be sitting talking to you and suddenly I’d be like [sings] ‘how do you eat yours’," she laughs.
That, we agree, would be good.
"I think life should be a musical."
Sean laughs. "I knew you were going to say that!"
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