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John Legend Working on New Album With will.i.am

October 13, 2007 07:50:29 GMT

John Legend told Rolling Stone.com that his third record is shaping up with will.i.am on board.
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Grammy-winning singer has begun the work of his third album that will follow 2006's ''. For this piece, Legend has ' behind the panel.

The singer who loves new acts also tapped a British songwriter named Think and several other relatively-unknown writers to bring in freshness in his album. "When I write, I don't really have a goal that day, I always just go in and say, 'We'll see what comes.' I don't have any rules about it other than that I have to love it. We'll see," he said in an interview with Rolling Stone.com.

The album may be planned for next year's summer but he has penned 5 demos so far. "It sounds different than anything else I've done before," he said. "There's some piano, there's some guitar. It's more guitar-driven than piano-driven so far, but that's because I'm writing with a couple guitarists."

"The only song that's kind of similar to a past song on this new project so far is a song that's kind of in the same vein as 'Show Me,' vocally, and I love that song, so I was definitely not avoiding going back to that spot again."

Legend has just completed the shooting of his new music video for 'Show Me', a track included in 'Once Again' in Tanzanian island, Zanzibar.



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