Popular duo The Ting Tings have opened up about their experiences of the music industry and the struggles they have faced while working on their forthcoming second album.

Speaking to The Guardian newspaper, the 'That's Not My Name' stars explained that the fame wasn't what they were expecting it to be and the pressures put on them by their label resulted in them deleting their own music:

Katie White and Jules De Martino explained, "The success was a bit shit when you actually got it. We always said we'd know when to stop touring, but the truth is you never know. Not until you're so exhausted you're calling your manager a fucking bastard and accusing him of trying to kill you."

"We can only ever write anything when we're down. Who wants to hear an album from an artist that's happy?"

The encouragement from their label bosses inspired anxiety between them and they decided to delete the material they had written for a potential new release:

"Finally we get a call: how's it going? We're like: it's not ready. They're like: just send over those demos you played. And we're like: we haven't got them any more. I remember the silence on the phone."

When asked if their new record will have instantly memorable hits on it, in the vein of 'Shut Up And Let Me Go', they simply said: "It would have been so easy to quickly bash out any old shit off the back of the first album. Get it on the radio, have a cheap nasty hit. And we didn't want to do that."

The stars also added that they like to keep a safe distance from their label's creative team: "We make our own videos, our own records, choose what brands we want to be involved with. It's not difficult. And the label fear that. Because, obviously, what's their role? You sit there in a meeting and see their egos. It needs to be about them, I did this and I did that."

Watch their music video for 'Hang It Up' below: