Nicola Roberts: "I'm not comfortable with faking"

Nicola Roberts has dismissed suggestions that she is not being authentic with her new solo material.

The Girls Aloud singer has collaborated with the likes of Metronomy's Joe Mount, Dimitri From Paris and Diplo on her upcoming album Cinderella Eyes.

Roberts told NME: "It's natural, being a fan and loving a band like Major Lazer, that you'd go to somebody like that. It's so out-there and full of imagination.

"And even with Girls Aloud, we didn't make records with rules. I'm used to working with Xenomania, who take risks, and that's what I feel with Joe, with Diplo. That's where I've come from, so that's where I want to go."

She added: "People can sniff out a faker. It would have been really awkward for me to not make a record like this. I'm not comfortable with faking - there's evidence of that in the first six years of the band."

Roberts has said that she no longer cares what critics said about her when she was a teenage member of Girls Aloud and that she feels "embarrassed for the people who wrote and said horrible things".

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