While Naomi Scott has conquered Hollywood, starring in Aladdin and Power Rangers and delivering an Oscar-worthy performance last year as haunted pop star Skye Riley in Smile 2, her first love was music.

That’s apparent in her October visit to the Billboard NYC offices, as the bubbly London native gushes about the array of artists currently filling her playlist — from Erika de Casier to Ariana Grande — and how proud she is of the journey to her long-awaited debut album, which is slated to arrive next year.

“It feels both emotionally honest, right, but also not completely a diary entry, autobiographical,” Scott, whose hair is freshly dyed a red pink, says of the album. “And one way that I wanted to also achieve that was a soundscape that I knew in my mind that I wanted to kind of build out

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