The Daily Star and Flecking Records published articles about the influences that the band decided to follow the new album, Prince and Michael Jackson. Check out the translations done by our team:

Daily Star

McFLY exchange by the pop R & B

The McFLY admitted that changed by the pop R & B to follow in the footsteps of Prince.
Singer Tom Fletcher said: "We realized that all the songs we had written could have gone for the last album, and we were not doing anything new. This made us decide to challenge ourselves to do something completely different. We wanted a drastic change in another direction. Some of the songs in this initial group that stood out for us had an influence of Prince and Michael Jackson, and that's what we wanted to achieve - to be like the great artists of pop. "

Tom, 25, and his bandmates, Danny Jones, 24, Dougie Poynter, 22, and Harry Judd, 24, decided to persuade the producer Dallas Austin, who worked with Michael Jackson and Madonna.
Danny revealed: "Dallas took us to clubs when we should be working in the studio. We were out with him one night and he said 'I need a phone,' and then sang it. He played the next day and was so incredible that became our first single, "Party Girl."
After re-gaining control of his career after re-signing with record label Universal in a deal far better that divides the profits fifty-fifty, they are on track to become multi-millionaires.

Flecking Records.

McFly want to be like Prince and Michael Jackson

The McFly has spoken about the reasons behind its change of gender.
The McFly is back but this time they are a little more R & B than pop-punk.
The band is interested in following in the footsteps of pop legends like Prince and Michael Jackson.
"We realized that all the songs we had written would fit on the last album, and we were not doing anything new," says Tom Fletcher.
"It made us decide to challenge ourselves to do something completely different. We wanted a drastic change in another direction. Some of this initial group of songs that stood out for us had an influence of Prince and Michael Jackson, and that's what we wanted to achieve - to be like the greats of pop, "he told the Daily Star.
The process of writing and recording songs with Dallas Austin seems to be interesting.
"Dallas took us to clubs when we should be working in the studio. We were out with him one night and he said 'I need a phone,' and then sang it, "said Danny Jones. "He played the next day and was so incredible that became our first single," Party Girl. "