Jessie J collaborated with producer Dr. Luke on some songs for her debut album Who You Are, but was insistent she didn't want to sound like other artists he had worked with.
The producer has previously made hits for stars like Katy Perry and Britney Spears, but the Price Tag singer wanted her own sound.
"I remember first going in with Dr. Luke and it’s big pressure when you know you’re going in with someone that’s written huge hits for other female artists and you don’t want to sound like them," she explained to 3 News in New Zealand.
"I went in with him and (songwriter) Claude (Kelly) and said, ‘This is who I am. This is what I do.’ I remember being told like, you know Luke is kind of very intense, just take it slow. I kind of went in and was like, ‘What up! Like, hello!’
"I think he appreciated my kind of honesty," the Nobody's Perfect singer added. "I said, ‘I don’t want to sound like this, this, this and this', and we sat for hours and went through my iTunes and listened to like old Mary J. Blige and old Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston and Lauryn Hill and I said, ‘I kind of want to write tracks like that.’
"There’s a song on my album called Abracadabra which totally is very different to what kind of, I wouldn’t say what Luke does, but you know that big, pop Katy Perry, Britney, I forgotten her name... Ke$ha – that kind of sound."
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