James Blunt: 'Carry You Home'

Blunty's latest single is co-written by Max Martin, the Swedish hitmaker who's responsible for some of the best-loved pop songs of the past decade: '... Baby One More Time', 'As Long As You Love Me', 'Since U Been Gone', to name but three. If anyone can inject a bit of oomph into this drabbest of troubadours, it's Martin, a man whose artistic range begins with booming and ends with bombastic.

Unfortunately, though not surprisingly, working with Blunt seems to have sapped Martin's creative juices. 'Carry You Home' is yet another workmanlike, semi-acoustic toe-tapper from the crooning Captain, filled with meaningless observations like 'If she had wings, she would fly away' and 'Trouble is her only friend and he's back again'. Its melody is as pretty as it is predictable, but if you can remember anything at all after listening to this, you're either a liar or a future world memory champion.


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