KATIE MELUA - REMIND ME TO FORGET

REMIND ME TO FORGET

KATIE MELUA

SONGWRITERS: LUKE POLASHNICK; KATIE MELUA & TIMOTHY HARRIES

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: ALBUM Nº 8

LABEL:BMG RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2020

 

        Ketevan "Katie" Melua(/ˈmɛluːə/; Georgian: ქეთევან "ქეთი" მელუა, IPA: [kʰɛtʰɛvɑn mɛluɑ]; born 16 September 1984) is a Georgian-British singer and songwriter. She moved to the United Kingdom at the age of eight – first to Belfast, and then to London in 1999. Melua is signed to the small Dramatico record label, under the management of composer Mike Batt, and made her musical debut in 2003. In 2006, she became the United Kingdom's best-selling female artist and Europe's highest selling European female artist.

       In November 2003, at the age of 19, Melua released her first album, Call Off the Search, which reached the top of the United Kingdom album charts and sold 1.8 million copies in its first five months of release. Her second album, Piece by Piece, was released in September 2005 and to date has gone platinum (one million units sold) four times. Melua released her third studio álbum Pictures in October 2007.

      According to the Sunday Times Rich List 2008, Melua had a fortune of £18 million, making her the seventh-richest British musician under the age of 30.

      Album Nº 8 is the eighth studio album by Georgian-British singer-songwriter Katie Melua. The album was released by BMG on 16 October 2020. The first single from the album, "A Love like That", was produced by Leo Abrahams and had its premiere on BBC Radio 2 on 30 June 2020. The second single, "Airtime", premiered on 24 July 2020.

           Melua started writing and recording the album when she was in the process of separating from her estranged husband, World Superbike racer James Toseland. “We are both perfectionists,” Melua stated. “So we both really wanted to ‘get it right’. But in the end, I think we both accepted it was over and decided to perfect the art of letting go. I looked to nature for support and saw the falling leaves as part of a beautiful cycle."

Might be going down in flames

The Ashes, the Silver Birches rain

Oh to leave the city shouting

The silent doubting

The rules are set and they feel so mean and binding

The leaves, they remind me to forget

 

At long tables, I sit and hear my name

And I see yours written high on who's to blame

It's so tempting to go out there

Feel unprotected

And then just say, "See, he left me naked"

The leaves, they remind me to forget

 

There's seven reasons why

And yours are different to mine

Then I watch them in the clouds dance

But I still can't tell who won

Another bed's gone from two to one

To one

 

Might be going down in flames

I feel your hand when the window says it's rain

Oh, you know but it's not real

Like the birds sing

Like the trees lean and the seas gleam

The leaves, they remind me to forget

The leaves, they remind me to forget.