Shane Filan Quotes

I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It's the new 'Lady Marmalade.' So good.

I hear a really good pop song every now and then. 'ROAR' by Katy Perry, I love that! 'Poker Face'... Oh! What a song! And 'Rolling in the Deep'... Oh!

How can you not like Britney Spears?

Pop music will never be low brow.

The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs.

You look at what One Direction has done and just say, 'That is just lucky;' it is not. It is happening because they are talented boys, good looking lads; and yes, their songs might not be the typical songs that lots of radios want to play, but they are great songs, pop records, that are massive across the world selling in huge numbers.

I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

Any vehicle that conveys great songs and the ability to perform them, whether it's 'N Sync or the Backstreet Boys or One Direction, is all good.

I love pop music, but I feel like the genre is overpopulated - there was so much bubblegum for a while, but I feel like Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran are bringing good, real music back to the radio.

Ariana Grande - I like her a lot.

I would love to work with Drake. I think he's such a pop star, and he's dropping amazing songs.

BTS as a group sort of took off with the success of our 2015 album that had our hit single 'I Need U.'

The Raspberries were together two years for one century. It was a very successful failure of a group.

I like Katy Perry.

I realized probably when I was, like, 20 years old that the hardest thing to do is to write a pop song - not, like, a candy-pop, throwaway pop song.

The first CD I bought was Brandy and Monica's 'The Boy Is Mine.'

People are so passionate about their favourite artists making it to number 1, it almost reminds me of football fanaticism. Nowadays, it's 'One Direction' vs 'The Wanted.' Back in my day, it was 'Oasis' vs 'Blur'.

When I first heard Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way,' I looked out the window for the car alarm going off.

The second we were done on 'The Sing-Off,' we were like, 'All right, now we're competing with Rihanna and Taylor Swift.' We've always set the bar high. We want a hit.

Beyonce's the only contemporary artist that I really, really idolize.

The thing I stress to my fans is that I've been making big, universally friendly-type music for a long time now. I never really made underground music.

I'm a huge closet Mariah Carey fan - she's got one of the best voices probably ever.

Pop just means popular - it can be any genre, and if it becomes popular, then it's pop music.

I actually love Little Mix, and I think they're doing a great job.