So I’m sitting here with new kid off the block and Indie artist Ruby Red. She walks in cool calm and collectively, with her starbucks cappuccino in one hand her oversized handbag in the other, and of course some big black sunglasses to finish the look.
So after the shoot we sit down so I can immensely interrogate her, we’re talking music, style and of course love life.
Yes, of course this was just yet ‘another interview’, another interviewer to portray the dark side of her non-stop party life style, the alcoholism the drugs the rumours, all will be revealed. Or in Ruby’s mind another interviewer to write about more bullshit day in day out.
The sunglasses came off, the dark heavy makeup revealed to perhaps cover the partying off last night or even early hours this morning. ‘Cant just focus on the music’ she says in a dragged monotone, there’s other things besides sitting down day in day out pleasing your fans were all entitled to some fun.’ And of course, she was correct. I decided to continue with this topic after all she brought it on herself.
‘At only nineteen years old, how are you copying with this bad publicity?’ Her eyes locked with me, ‘same shit new magazine’ ‘I’m used to it, what people don’t understand is I have a soft side, people just don’t want to show that, they want to see yet another fucked up Indie star in the limelight. No one gives two shits about ‘Ruby Red at home with the family’ this isn’t what makes the news and the magazines.’ After this, she demanded a strong black coffee perhaps to cure the hangover she was obviously suffering with. Then she took out a cigarette and lit up, she dragged each puff as if she didn’t want to be here, the interview was a drag for her. Becoming increasingly agitated at the wait she has to have before the coffee arrived it was then I realised she was just yet another diva.
With her coffee finally arriving I went on to the more risky and controversial subject of her relationship rumours with Amy Warehouses’ EX ‘Blake Fielder’, this was possibly going to be the make or break off the interview.
I sat up straight, I was nervous by the reaction she could create. ‘What was it like to be heavily influenced by a drug addict?’ she looks anxiously to floor as if her body went cold, ‘I assume you’re implying my relationship with Blake’ in a snapped tone. I nod. She sat up straight, for first time in the interview she looked bothered, I had hit a nerve. ‘Of course he had some effect into my life, but I am a nineteen year old girl, I’m vulnerable, of course I can make my own decisions but when you have the option of a something new you’ll grab it with both hands. I can publicly say that sham of a relationship is over; it was an era that had to end.’ Again I was amazed by the honesty, Ruby Red had influenced by others, and perhaps she was just a typical teenage girl learning the paths of life.
With that out the way, and the coffee cup on the side, my next question on the agenda involved paparazzi and the constant twitter battles with indie star ‘Paloma Faith’. It must be hard with the paps everywhere involved in your life 24/7 how do you deal with it? She chuckles. ‘I want some fucking privacy every once in a while, I want to be able to stroll out of a nightclub and not have to explain myself to my manager the next day, the thing is they are always there to capture the crap ugly moments but where are they when I’m doing something nice? Like I said, nice just doesn’t cut the news these days, you want to make a living and a name for yourself you have to do something rash, or be extremely cute and attract the little girls, like one direction’. She didn’t seem somewhat bothered the fact she was just about receive hate from a million girls worldwide, why should she bothered she has her own fans that will back her fully.
‘Paloma Faith’ I say. ‘That ugly bitch. Don’t get me started, she has no talent whatsoever, the only ‘big’ thing about her is her hair and not her career. Some people will say I’m jealous. But I say what the actual fuck do I have to be jealous off?’ You can tell she feels extremely strongly about this subject as the words just flew out of her mouth. Utterly shocked I decided to instantly move on. She done a sweet sarcastic smile, she new I didn’t have a comeback.
Yet again, having a diva moment, she insists for yet another black coffee. ‘Are we going to talk about my music career or not?’ she snaps at me. Yes I thought. So I asked how she felt when trying from the age of fourteen posting numerous videos online and then five years later she had been signed, and has a successful album out called ‘Broken Mirrors’ made her feel. She smiled. A genuine smile. Who would have thought it? This was obviously a happy place. ‘I worked my arse off for five years, I got the hate and the bullying from the high school friends saying I’d never make it, but I have. That’s a major fuck you to all of them. Where are they now? Well they certainly aren’t on the same pay cheque that I am. However I feel hugely grateful for the people that supported me then and are still supporting me now, that’s how I got where I am today, that’s how my new album got to the number one spot, and I thank them dearly, they are who made this album so successful. Talking of the album I asked where the name ‘Broken Mirrors’ came from, of course this was what everybody wanted to know, she was more than willing to answer, she slouched back on the chair and said ‘because I’ve had a fuck load off bad luck in my life and these was a subtle way off getting that across’. But luckily for Ruby Red this constant stream off bad luck has come to an end, and we wish her all the very best and hope she gets back to her diva ways shortly.
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