America plays an influence on his upcoming record Are We There Yet? and first single Dippin My Feet has an Americana feel to it.“I brought some of that back and it has ended up on the record.
“Are We There Yet? as a title also relates to being the age I am. I felt my age at the end of the tour, I was absolutely knackered., which was pretty scary.Other standout songs on the new record include the catchy Take Me Back To Your Place and Waterfall, which Astley says “is about life — we are always under a waterfall.
"I can’t completely go down that road because part of my DNA is that I was signed to Stock Aitken Waterman. I know what my audience want. Album closer Blue Sky is a special track that is stripped down and a more vulnerable sound that we have heard from Astley before."I’d just had a cup of tea and gone in the studio and didn’t sing it in the normal octave I usually do.