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‘Joni Mitchell’s Blue revolutionised the way I saw music’: Emeli Sandé’s honest playlist
The singer was a young fan of Mariah and pretends she hates one 70s musical classic, but which aquatic power ballad can she genuinely no longer stand?
The song I do at karaoke I heard … Baby One More Time by Britney Spears when I was 12 and thought: “Gosh, this is amazing.” It was my introduction to pop music. The song I inexplicably know every lyric to I was part of a youth music theatre group and we sang Seasons of Love from the musical Rent, that starts with: “Five hundred twenty-five thousand, six-hundred minutes / Five hundred twenty-five thousand moments so dear”. I love the line: “I’ve acted out my life in stages with 10,000 people watching / But we’re alone now and I’m singing this song to you.” There’s something about that fragile intimacy that gets me every time.
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