Esmée had a nice interview with Cosmogirl! to promote the digital release of her debut album ‘Outta Here‘ in the US. She talks about her influences, Justin Timberlake, her debut album and more. Be sure to read the full interview below.

Esmee Denters is probably one of the coolest girls in the world. Growing up in Holland, she loved singing so much that she posted videos on You Tube (yes, just like Justin Bieber)! Her talents caught the eye of none other than Justin Timberlake who signed her almost immediately! She now has the hit song “Love Dealer” that features JT and is releasing her debut album Outta Here this fall. She’s also the face of b.tempt’d's new campaign that features a special promotion: $2 from every bra purchase will go to Susan G. Komen for breast cancer support. Esmee is one busy girl so CG was lucky enough to grab a few minutes of her time so you could get to know her a bit better!

Singing Beginnings: “I have been singing since as long as I can remember, probably since I could open my mouth. Singing is like breathing to me, I don’t know what I would do without it. I have never felt so passionately about anything else. Music makes me feel like I belong.”

Influences: “I listened to a lot of different kinds of music since my dad has always been a music freak. I grew up with a lot of soul music as well as The Beatles and Classical music. As I got older I was infatuated with the Spice Girls and Janet Jackson.”

On Justin Timberlake: “I have always admired his work, so when I realized Justin had seen my video’s and wanted to meet me backstage at one of his shows it felt very surreal. I guess when I was there my drive kind of took over my nerves and I asked him if it was ok to play him a song on the piano in the room. He immediately loved it and signed me a month later.”

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I’m so proud of Esmée right now because she got nominated for an Edison. You may not know this award, but it’s pretty big in Holland: it’s like the Grammy’s of the Netherlands and Esmée got a nomination alongside one of the greatest dutch artist. She got nominated for the ‘Veronica publieksprijs beste song‘ (The price decided by voters) wich means we can vote for Esmée. They nominated her debut hit single ‘Outta Here‘, wich peaked at #3 in the dutch charts and number #7 of the UK charts. If you are not dutch you can still vote, but be sure to read and follow the intruction below.

1. Go to the voting page of the Edisons 2010.
2. Select a random album below ‘Publieksprijs beste album’
3. Select Esmée ‘Outta Here‘ below ‘Veronica publieksprijs beste song’. Just tick the box next to Esmée’s cover art. You may have to scroll a bit.

Note: The album can be different when you visit the voting page, the order randomly changes.

4. Scroll down until the white box with ‘E-mail*’ above it and fill in your own e-mail.
5. Go to your mail box of the e-mail you filled in and open the one from info@ediso​ns.nl with ‘Bevestig uw stem op [Random Album you selected] en Outta here (single)‘ as subject and click the link to confirm your vote.
6. Be sure to vote, and follow the same steps as above, with all your e-mail addresses: your work, school, personal, website, fansite etc. e-mails. And ask you parents, sister, brother, relatives, (new) classmates and friends to vote too.

Some really exciting news today: a brand new video has been released online of Esmée performing the song ‘Gravity‘. It looks like a music video for the song. ‘Gravity‘ was suppose to be the first official single of her debut album ‘Outta Here‘ but Esmée recorded the single ‘Outta Here‘ last minute and they changed the debut single. ‘Gravity‘ didn’t make it yet as official music video. When you watch earlier blogs of Esmée before you may have noticed that they have release some short footage of this video but it’s really nice to see the full video!

Esmée looks really stunning! The video is at the same time a nice behind the scenes look of Esmée on the photoshoot for her debut album artwork. The photographer is Jason O’Dell and you can watch the full photoshoot set in our gallery. I really hope more outtakes will be released of this shoot since they only released a few and by the looks of the video they will have a lot more!

Update: Esmée just tweeted: ‘Guys obviously the gravity behind the scene video is not a official music video.. its just a fun video to watch’. So it’s not a music video, just a behind the scenes look of her artwork photoshoot.

Looks like Esmée is back, after spending a few days in Holland, in London again. She had a lovely interview yesterday with Total Acces. It’s a fun and cute interview! Be sure to listen to it below. She talks about shooting her music video ‘Love Dealer‘, Sex and the City, fashion and a lot more. They also aired a shot audio of what Chipmunk has to say about her. It’s really nice!

Finally, the big day for the US fans was there: the official digital release of Esmée’s debut album ‘Outta Here’ in the US was on August 24th. You can buy the full album, and be sure you do!, on itunes. The full track list can be found below.

01. Love Dealer (ft. Justin Timberlake)
02. Outta Here
03. Admit It
04. Casanova (ft. Justin Timberlake)
05. Gravity
06. Getting Over You
07. What If
08. Memories Turn To Dust
09. Crazy Place
10. Sad Symphony

The track list is a little bit different than the one of the UK/the Netherlands. They left out “Victim“, “Bigger Than The World“, “The First Thing” and “Just Can’t Have It” and added the charity single “Crazy Place“. I’m a little bit sad that they left out one of the best songs of the album, but I think and hope they will release those songs on a deluxe edition or her second album! I’m not sure when the store release of the album is, but when I do you guys are the first to know!

You can watch the video vlog Esmée made below. She speaks about the digital release and she has some other good news: she will be adding more cover videos on her youtube channel. So be sure to stay tuned, we will update you as soon as the videos are posted. You can watch the screencaprtures of the video in our gallery.

Yesterday was the official one year anniversairy for the UK release of Esmée’s “Outta Here“. Her debut single peaked in the UK Charts at numnber #7, her first top 10 UK hit. After the release of “Outta Here” follow the release of “Admit It” and in 2010 the release of her debut album , wich is also called “Outta Here“, and her latest release “Love Dealer“. Esmée has a big fan base in the UK wich has grown after her collaboration with the UK rapper Chipmunk. You can read the post that I made on August 17th over here.

Esmée is currently still in New York so I expect more news within the next days. Look out for the Youtube Anniversairy the 25th! The news is really slow the last few weeks, but I really hope that will change soon.