'You Sent Me Flying' is the first track written and recorded by Stefani Vola. The song was written solely by Stefani when she was on a train journey to visit her cousin, she spotted a loved up couple in the seat across from her's and they were all over each other. This inspired the idea for the loved up lyrics of 'You Sent Me Flying'. The song starts with a heavy clapping and Stefani's voice deeply singing the 'yo yo...' part. Then the funky Caribbean style beat kicks in during the first verse and continues throughout the song. When the chorus is sung, the clapping comes back in too and everything merges together into one great jam! When the 'yo yo...' part returns, Stefani sings alongside a male voice over the slow clapping before returning to the funky chorus.

Yo yo yo yo
hey hey hey hey
yo yo yo yo
hey hey hey hey

Baby don't ever turn away
Don't ever let me go
(no, never let me go)
You're the one that I've been looking for
(l-looking for..)

You came into my life
You swept me off of the ground
(off of the ground)
I feel so high everytime you come around
(you come around, come around)

So I just gotta tell you how I'm feeling
My heart's skipping beats, you got me spinning

You sent me flying from the day (ay!)
that we met, I felt so great I just can't explain
I touch the sky when you call out my name
I'm soaring up, you got me feeling like a star
You sent me flying, you sent me flying....

Honey come on over and relight my flame
Feeling so hot, boy I just can't be tamed
(ta-a-amed)
Everytime I touch your skin it gives me butterflies
(butterflies)

So I just gotta tell you how I'm feeling
My heart's skipping beats, you got me spinning

You sent me flying from the day (ay!)
that we met, I felt so great I just can't explain
I touch the sky when you call out my name
I'm soaring up, you got me feeling like a star
You sent me flying, you sent me flying....

Yo yo yo yo
hey hey hey hey
yo yo yo yo
hey hey hey hey

Yo yo yo yo
hey hey hey hey
yo yo yo yo
hey hey hey hey

You sent me flying from the day (ay!)
that we met, I felt so great I just can't explain
I touch the sky when you call out my name
I'm soaring up, you got me feeling like a star
You sent me flying, you sent me flying....

You sent me flying from the day (ay!)
that we met, I felt so great I just can't explain
I touch the sky when you call out my name
I'm soaring up, you got me feeling like a star
You sent me flying, you sent me flying....

Well of course my fans get a sneak peak, what kind of person would I be if I didn't let those amazing people behind the scenes? Eh, the whole idea of me going solo came about during the promotion of the G2L single; 'How?'. We knew that it was the last single from the 'Confessions' album and that fans may have to wait a while before they get a new album due to label issues and personal stuff, so I saw the opportunity to explore my musical talents and see what I could do. Also, it was partly to please the fans who would have to wait for a new G2L album and to let them hear me on my own and really see what I can do as an artist rather than just sing a verse or two with the girls.

I tell you, it is just an amazing feeling. To hold you head up high and annoy people by asking them to constantly buy your single and to also tweet about it too is just fabulous. No being serious now, it is still a great feeling because you feel as if the hard work has finally paid off and now everyone can hear the outcome and support me and show the love. It is quite nerve racking too because it could flop. Don't get me wrong, chart positions and sales don't usually phase me but because I worked so hard on this record it would be a shame if it slipped off the radar, so please everyone keep me on your radar!

Well I've always had a passion for R&B and real funky yet laid back tunes, so finding the right genre for my debut was easy. Artists like Tisha Jackson and Alicia Lena really inspired the sound. For the actual lyrics it was inspired by a train journey I was on. I was going to visit my cousin and whilst on the train I kept on looking at this cute couple, I mean they were so loved up and kissing each other nearly the whole journey and I was going like that to myself; 'Girl, keep your tongue in your head' but it was sweet at the same time. So the whole 'never leave me, you've got me feeling like star' thing came from that.

Well there are no vocal collaborations on the album because I selfishly wanted to do all the vocals. However, I did work with Kia Johnson during the song writing process. She was amazing and was constantly phoning me up saying; 'Yo Stefani, I just thought of some sick lyrics for you babe' and I'm like; 'Kia it's four in the morning leave me alone!'. I would love her to feature on a future track. There are the obvious ones like Alicia Lena and Tisha Jackon but I also like to mix it up so to work with someone like Jason Smith or Glamazon would be amazing too.

En Vogue are up there with the best groups of all time. I listened to them, and still do, nearly everyday. Their second album 'Funky Divas' is without a doubt the most played album in my house, my dad bought it for me when I was only 2 years old and I would constantly walk around the house singing "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)" and "Free Your Mind". In the late 90's when I was at school, it was always Mariah Carey and Destiny's Child in my CD player too. I was never into that euro dance thing they had going on in the nineties, that was just a bit.....weird. Also, me and my friends always have a place in our hearts for Boys II Men.

Oh definitely, yes. I'm always one to mix it up because right now everyone seems to be mixing and mashing every genre together and incorporating like 50 genres into one album. An artist that is currently doing that and inspiring me is Chloe because she really mixes it up and keeps everyone interested. Most of the album will be R&B but there is also dance tracks in there, pop tracks and even some jazz. Years ago if you bought a pop album you heard like 13 pop songs on it, same with R&B, Dance, Hip Hop and so on but nowadays everyone is doing a bit of everything, I'm waiting to see Mandy Williams do some heavy metal stuff and see Glamazon do cheesy pop.

The album will be titled; 'Standing Tall'. I named it this because it is a very confident sounding album. There is no 'I wish I was dead, life sucks' tracks on it at all. The album reflects how confident I've became in myself and the songs are really out there which shows I'mm not really in my shell any more, I am who I am and I'm standing tall and proud. It, hopefully, gets all the listeners to become more confident too and hopefully inspired by some of the songs. Some of the songs are; 'These Shoes' which is just fierce, there's also 'Get It Together' which is the seductive jazz track I mentioned and one more is 'Don't Let The Music' fade which is a sort of pop/dance big ballad that talks about meeting someone at a party and dancing with them and living in the moment but you don't want the music to fade as you know you will never feel that rush again with them.