The Wanted's Jay McGuiness has said that he feels the band are past the stage of worrying about being dropped.

Speaking to Digital Spy, McGuiness admitted that he thinks in the past the band might have been dumped by their record label if their singles failed.

However, he reckons they're past that hurdle now. When asked about the group's approach to their forthcoming third album, McGuiness said:

"I think because it's our third album in the UK and our first worldwide that we want to show everyone that we learnt a lot with the first album, with the second one got our stamp on it and our third album want to say, 'We know what we're doing now. This is our third album. We've done two already, we know how to do it well, and we know how to get it better".

He continued: "I think because we've been to America and seen how we're doing, we can actually make this last for a long time. Like the way Girls Aloud have done. We're past that point now where we're worried about being written off. Basically, we could do a record that flopped and the record label would be like, 'It's cool'. At the beginning, if the song flopped, we were gonna be dropped. I think we're past that stage now."