Once Upon A Mind

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It is an album about the cycle of life – his father’s chronic illness; his guilt about leaving his wife to tour for months on end; the birth of his two young sons; the death of his old friend and patron Carrie Fisher – which may move his fans to tears. As it does Blunt, twice, over the course of our interview.

The album's second single, "All the Love That I Ever Needed" was released on 22 September 2023. [7] The ARIA Report: Week Commencing 6 November 2023". The ARIA Report. No.1757. Australian Recording Industry Association. 6 November 2023. p.6.On 2 August 2023, Blunt announced the release date for Who We Used to Be, his first studio album since 2019's Once Upon a Mind. [3]

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Zemler, Emily (2 August 2023). "James Blunt Welcomes the Highs and the Lows on Breezy Single 'Beside You' ". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 4 November 2023.a b c Hunter-Tilney, Ludovic (25 October 2023). "James Blunt's heartfelt clichés are easy on the ear in Who We Used to Be – album review". Financial Times . Retrieved 26 October 2023. Still, everything wasn’t entirely rosé with The Afterlove. He mentions another of those big discussions, “not quite a row but pretty close”, about a song called “OK”, written with Steve Mac (co-writer of Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You”), who also produced it. “I really didn’t enjoy where it got to, but the label said: ‘This has to go on, this is the direction, this is your first single.’ I said, ‘absolutely not’. Zemler, Emily (2 August 2022). "James Blunt Welcomes the Highs and the Lows on Breezy Single 'Beside You' ". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 26 October 2023.

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I was the guy who sang that song on the subway 14 years ago, going after another man's girlfriend, saying, ‘You’re beautiful.’ And so I just wonder what’s happened to him now. Is he any better? I mean, he made a ton of money off the song. So now, I imagine that man's chat-up line would just be, ‘Hey, I’ve got a real fast car outside.’ That would be as cheesy as it gets now, as shallow as that.”