Free Me (Joss Stone song)

"Free Me"
Single by Joss Stone
from the album Colour Me Free!
Released November 8, 2009
Format Digital download
Genre Soul, funk
Length 3:53
Label Virgin, EMI
Writer(s) Joss Stone
Joss Stone singles chronology
"Baby Baby Baby"
(2007)		 "Free Me"
(2009)		 "The Best Thing About Me Is You"
(2011)

"Free Me" is a song by English soul singer-songwriter Joss Stone from her fourth studio album, Colour Me Free! (released on October 20, 2009[1] in the US). The track was released on November 8, and is currently the only single for the album.[2] The song was a commercial failure, only charting in four countries, without reaching a Top Ten position. A music video was not released.

Stone wrote the song as a protest song against her label, EMI. In the song, Stone sings that she cannot be told what to do. In the outro, she even sings "Free me, free me, EMI". It was reported that Stone wanted to leave EMI, but EMI didn't want to end the four-album contract Stone signed in 2006. Before Colour Me Free, she had only released one out of the four albums that were in her contract. It was announced Stone left EMI, and is now assigned to a new label called "Stone'd Records", based in New York City and Bristol.[1][3][4]

In 2010, the song was featured in the trailer for the film Morning Glory.[5]

Tracklisting

  1. Free Me
  2. I Get High

Charts

Chart (2009) Peak
position
Belgian Tip Chart (Wallonia) 13
Japan Hot 100 29
Swiss Singles Chart 50

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Joss Stone :: Tour Dates Videos Colour Me Free". jossstone.com. Retrieved 2010-08-26.
  2. ↑ "Joss Stone lança disco em Outubro". Rolling Stone Brazil. Retrieved 2010-08-26.
  3. ↑ "Stone'd Records". stonedrecords.com. Retrieved 2010-09-04.
  4. ↑ "Facebook - Stone'd Records". Facebook. Retrieved 2010-09-04.
  5. ↑ Weather & Time. "What song was playing during the Morning Glory preview?". ChaCha. Retrieved 2012-01-10.

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