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Elyar Fox: "It's Cool To Be Compared To Justin Bieber!"

EXCLUSIVE! Our MTV Brand New nominee tells us about his debut album...

Elyar Fox is a bouncy, bubbly ball of energy when he sat down to talk exclusively with MTV UK about his new album, his fans and comparisons to Justin Bieber.

And no wonder Elyar’s so cheerful. He’s just been nominated for a highly coveted spot on MTV’s Brand New For 2014 shortlist and he’s on the verge of releasing his debut single, Do It All Over Again.

“It’s crazy, I’m so grateful to be on the Brand New list,” says Elyar of the honour. “It’s really cool and I feel flattered.”

How did he know that he was destined for a career in music? “Since I got my first two albums [Nirvana’s In Utero and Good Charlotte’s debut], I was like, I wanna be a musician,” he recalls.

“I didn’t know what it was but I knew I definitely wanted to learn guitar and I wanted to write songs and perform to everyone.”

The cheeky chappy, who used to be in a pop punk band, tells us that his first album is: “a pop album but it’s kinda got different sides to it. It’s like a triangle of music.”

“It’s got, like, the more guitar based side, like acoustic-y, maybe a little bit reggae, and then it’s got the more club side to it, which is like my first single Do It All Over Again,” explained Elyar, whose debut track comes out on 12th January. “And then it’s maybe got a bit of rock to it as well.”

The spiky-haired blonde has already been compared to Bieber and Conor Maynard, both of whom are past MTV Brand New nominees.

“I think it’s cool because we’re both young and working in pop music,” Elyar says of the comparisons. “So I’ve always found it kind of flattering 'cause they’re both successful and they both make great music.”

“As long as you always have something slightly different about you, you’ve got your own edge to you, it’s cool.”

Certainly his fans – called Foxers – are as passionate as either Bieber’s or Maynard’s. “The fans are really sweet,” reveals Elyar.

“They always support me through what I do and I do my best to give them what they want.”

Brand New For 2014 is presented by Emporio Armani Diamonds.

By Karen Yossman @mtvuknews

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