So the album is called Jordin Sparks, can you tell us specifically about the songs on the album? The influences? What fans can expect?

Well, I guess there’s a little bit of everything for everybody. There are songs that are more guitar driven. There are songs that make you want to think. There are songs that are more rhythmic. There are definitely some ballads on there because everybody knows that I love to do ballads, so there’s some of that also. But I guess it’s just like me, just a good mix of everything and I really hope that people like it. I think works. I think it works out.

Was there any of those 9 on the tour who kind of broke out and maybe impressed more so than they did on the show?

I really think that Chris Richardson really showed a different side to him because he played the drums and played the guitar and he did a whole bunch of different genres. Like he did the duet with me that was country. He did Maroon 5. He did Jason Mraz. He did Gnarles Barkley. Like it was really crazy to see how versatile he was. I actually think that kind of applies to everybody actually now that I think about it. We did so many different things on the tour that we didn’t really get to show on TV, so I really think it applies to everybody.

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