Cee Lo Green: 'Single is not contrived'

Cee Lo Green has insisted that his new single is not contrived.

The singer, whose latest effort 'F**k You' is on course to top the singles chart this Sunday, said that he did not release the song for attention, but knew the song would provoke a reaction.

"It's not contrived. I mean, written down on paper, I could see people were going to react to the song," he told X Magazine.

"But as creators we could see there were things that people would be partial to. But I wouldn't insult people and say that [the swearing] was all they heard."

The Gnarls Barkley frontman also revealed that he was not happy with his label's decision to remake the song as 'Forget You' for the radio.

He said: "Well, [the song] was doing really well but not on the radio. You want all the statistics to be in your favour. I wanted a version that adolescents and maybe older people could listen to. But for adults, there's the original version for you.

"I didn't think we broke the rules to begin with, just bent them a bit. We bent them into an art form."