Free Me (Joss Stone song)

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"Free Me"
Single by Joss Stone
from the album Colour Me Free!
Released November 8, 2009
Format Digital download
Genre
Length 3:53
Label
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 and 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] EMI/Virgin retained the rights to her previously released songs and released the compilation album The Best of Joss Stone 2003–2009 which included the song "Free Me".

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

Track listing

  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

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