Posted September 23, 200717 yr SHE has sold over seven million albums and has been the best selling female artist in the world. But don’t expect to see KATIE MELUA out on the lash with peers AMY WINEHOUSE or LILY ALLEN anytime soon. “I think the coverage Amy Winehouse gets is not the sort of coverage that a musician would want to get at all,” Katie, who releases her third album, Pictures, next month, tells us. “It seems to focus on her personal life quite a bit, and I’d absolutely hate that. “I hope she’s fine with it and she doesn’t find it too hard.” But the incredibly private 23-year-old insists the reason she's known for her melodic ballads rather than her rock star antics is NOT because she’s boring – she's just chosen to keep a low profile. “I do go out boozing, but just not to the same places as Amy and Lily. You’ve got to know where to go to avoid press,” she tells us. Instead, she prefers hanging around with friends she’s known since before she was struck by her huge success. “All my friends are the same friends I had a few years ago – I’m not going to abandon them just because I’ve got a career,” she explains. “I don’t really know Amy and Lily, so it’d be quite weird to just phone them up and start hanging around with them.” Multinational Katie – who was born in Georgia but now lives in England via Northern Ireland – is determined that her fame should be all about her music, rather than who she’s been getting drunk with. Or, like Lily, who she’s been slagging off. “When you do say anything negative in the press it attracts attention to you for saying that particular thing. "I’d rather my attention was on my music rather than that particular artist,” she tells us, referring to Lily's loose tongue, including her famous feud with CHERYL COLE. “But each to their own. You’ve got freedom of speech and you can say whatever you want, it’s her career so she can do whatever she likes.”
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