- Hey, I'm Anne-Marie.
I'm here at BuzzFeed
and I'm gonna be talking about my firsts.
Which is scary.
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First song you wrote.
I think it was a song called, Boy Six.
Like the first proper song I wrote.
And it was about six boyfriends that I'd had
and just mugging all of them off
because they were all horrible.
So I actually like that song.
Maybe I'll bring that out one day.
Change it to Boy 70. (laughing)
First thing you do when you're back in England.
I go shopping for food.
Because I need a full fridge of fresh food when I'm back.
When I'm away in other countries
and I'm staying in a hotel
it really stresses me out that I can't just open a fridge
and there's just food whenever I want it.
Say if I wake up at like 3 AM
and I want a Babybel, they're not there.
So, yeah, I need to go food shopping.
First time you were recognized in public.
I feel like I really am bad
at even noticing things like this
because I just try and,
I'm so anxious that I just walk around with my head down.
Which is horrible.
This one time when I was in Germany
and it was freezing so I had an excuse of like
wearing a big hoodie and a scarf like covering my face
and I was just walking around with my friends
and I literally only had my nose out, I swear.
I had glasses on and my nose was out
and a girl came up to me and said, "Are you Anne-Marie?"
And I was like,
"How the (beep) did you know that from my nose?"
So yeah, that freaked me out. (laughing)
First celeb crush.
I think it's gotta be Eminem or Nelly.
They were me favorites.
I had a lot of crushes, Christina Aguilera.
Weirdly I have never met any of them.
First cell phone. I don't know if you had this here,
but it's like a 33-10, a Nokia 33-10 and it had snake on it
and I just would play that every (beep) day.
First singer of musical act you'd want to collaborate with.
I think the first person that I really,
really loved growing up was Alanis Morissette.
And she always comes from a really strong point of view
on whatever she's been through.
I feel like she's been heartbroken,
but she always ends up being a stronger person
at the end of it.
And that's what she inspired me to do,
so we'd just write like the strongest
(beep) anthem ever in the whole world.
First embarrassing on stage moment.
There's been a few.
The first major one was probably when
I was actually performing in New York.
I was doing a duet with this guy called Will Heard,
and he does crazy dance moves, he's crazy.
And he's flinging his arms around
and I had the mic to my mouth
and he smashed the mic into my mouth
and my tooth cut in half
and I had it in my mouth onstage and I ran off,
spat it out, come back and finish the song.
(laughing)
So that was the first one.
Another one was when
I try not to wear skirts onstage because it's really hard
and I jump around a lot.
But this particular time I was wearing like big knickers,
so I thought I'll be fine.
And I sat at the edge of the stage
for this moment in the set
and as I turned around
the skirt flew up, the knickers had moved right up my ass
and someone filmed me turning around
and there's a picture of my ass on the internet.
So go and have a google.
First time you met Lauv.
Was in London actually.
And we met when we were doing like a radio show thing
and he was so chill
and I was so hyper.
And he was lovely,
and then we had the song,
and now I love him, he's one of my favorite people.
First musical inspiration.
Honestly, I think it has to be someone like Eminem
because when I was a teenager listening to him
or when I was a kid I totally
was so shocked at how he just didn't care
and how he just said anything
whether it made people feel uncomfortable
or whether if he was talking about
like real serious issues in the world
or anything like that.
And it really just inspired me
to just always go beyond that little barrier
of like safe lyrics, or anything like that.
So he's an inspo.
My first job actually was teaching karate.
Yeah, I'm a black belt in Shotokan.
This was when I was maybe like 16 or 17.
And I got a diploma in teaching karate
and I taught little beginners.
And it was the best ever.
And then I got an actual job,
like a boring shop job
and I got fired from that like in a week.
And then I got another job
and I got fired from that in a week,
and that's why I do music. (laughing)
- [Producer] Why were you fired?
- I was fired because I had my phone in the stock room
and they were like, "We're gonna have to look through
"your phone to see if you've been stealing anything."
I was like, "You're not looking through my phone."
They were like, "We either looking through your phone
"or you're fired."
I went, "See ya."
But I wasn't stealing anything
but I just didn't want them to look through my (beep).
First celebrity who followed you on social media.
Probably Ed Sheeran because we were friends
right from the start and I remember
having like 20 followers on Twitter
and he tweeted out saying, "Everyone say hi to Anne-Marie."
And then I got like thousands of followers
I was like, "Sweet, thanks mate."
My first pet.
Do goldfish count as pets?
My dad used to have so many fish in this big tank.
So that was kind of my first kind of experience of a pet
but also my first proper pet was a rabbit.
And we called her Blossom.
And then I got another rabbit called Plow.
But they're both dead now.
First big date.
Okay, so I feel like I've never been on a date before.
Whenever I've got with someone
it's because we've been friends before.
So I feel like it's just naturally progressed
into being with someone and I've never really like
said, "Should we go to this, should we go to that?"
So I don't, I still have yet
to experience my first big date.
Guys.
Someone wanna call me?
First big singing gig.
For people to come and see me
was in 2015.
And it was a 300 capacity place in London.
And before that I'd been touring
with a group called Rudimental.
And I'd been doing shows for thousands of people
and big, big venues, and big, big festivals
but it was never for my own music.
I was more scared at my first gig
than I was at the thousands of people so I loved it.
And I wore high heels, and ended up taking them off
and I just had bare feet onstage
and it was disgusting.
My first Cd or album you ever bought.
Probably Alanis Morissette or Alicia Keys or Pink.
They're all around the same time I think for me
I was like Christina Aguilera, Pink,
I love them all.
My first kiss.
(groans)
My first kiss was disgusting.
(laughing)
And I didn't know how to do it
so I don't really wanna think about it.
My song right now is called Birthday
and if you can guess it's about being your birthday.
And yeah, it's fun.
I hope you like it, go listen to it.
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