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College Tribune | January 20th 2009
my truths”. His duet with Nelly Furtado, Broken Strings, was last week frustratingly kept from the top spot by Lady GaGa’s Just Dance. “I’m not angry about that, I’m really just delighted to have got to number two, that’s good enough
Perhaps Lady GaGa is a delicate subject for someone so close to the elusive number one. Morrison has toured extensively, and he admits that touring can be a combination of some of the best and worst times and experiences for an artist, though he has prominent memories of walking through Tokyo dressed as a dog. “We decided to dress as dogs at the end of a show in Tokyo. I just remember them all shouting that they loved our rabbit costumes, we couldn’t seem to get through that we were in fact dogs. There are literally so many experiences from touring that will always stay with me.” The road behind may be murky but the road ahead is clear and Morrison knows where he is going. “I’m hoping to get closer to what my real sound and style is a kind of old school style. My next album will be more me. What I have learnt that I need to just put down what I’m feeling and think-
“I technically died when I was a baby. I stopped breathing and had to be resuscitated four times. The lack of oxygen to my brain meant that I was likely to be brain-damaged” for me. You’ve got to let room for new artists”, he concedes though in a mildly affronted tone. It’s at this point you might expect Morrison to light up for his 40-a-day cigarette habit.
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ing and not dwell on the bits and pieces so much. It will always happen for me that I will hear my tracks and pick out the little bits that I could have changed for the better, I’ll have to accept this. “For me the future will hopefully hold more successful material, but apart from that, I really don’t know what might be ahead. Working with artists such as Nelly Furtado has been great so far though. I’m trying to think of artists here who have been an absolute nightmare. I’d like to dig you up some dirt like that before I go” He never quite digs up the anticipated dirt, his mind is clearly elsewhere. And with that, the cheerful and not-so-timid James Morrison is off.
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