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Posted by: WhoOdyssey 6th July 2020, 02:04 PM

Bay is back! New single 'Chew On My Heart' is out on Thursday - I do prefer his upbeat stuff (Pink Lemonade is easily his best work), but I'm looking forward to this.

Posted by: Bjork 6th July 2020, 02:21 PM

I like the title
Album 2 was such a let down, sadly he really suffered the sophomore album fiasco

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 6th July 2020, 02:24 PM

I actually prefer the second album (however Wild Love was a strange lead single choice), and as I said Pink Lemonade is still an incredible song. I really liked the Oh My Messy Mind EP last year also, so I'm optimistic.

Posted by: Bjork 6th July 2020, 02:37 PM

I really liked the song he did with Julia Michaels, Peer Pressure, it had potential but was not really pushed enough for it to do something in the charts

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 6th July 2020, 02:41 PM

It's actually been a slow burner on streaming! It's currently his most popular song on Spotify, and is his 4th most streamed song there overall.

Posted by: JosephStyles 6th July 2020, 02:44 PM

I agree that his second album wasn't all that, and I LOVED the debut. Wild Love was the only track I cared for particularly from it (and Us to a lower degree). Peer Pressure was a beauty though, one of his very best, so intrigued by this!

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 7th July 2020, 09:27 AM

I rewatched Cars 3 yesterday, and only just realised Bay has a really good cover of Tom Petty's 'Kings Highway' on the soundtrack!

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 8th July 2020, 11:53 AM

Premiering on Nick Grimshaw's show tomorrow - so that bodes well for playlisting!

Posted by: Steve201 8th July 2020, 12:04 PM

It's a make or break release for him after the sophomore album somewhat underperformed.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 9th July 2020, 08:38 AM

https://www.nme.com/music-interviews/james-bay-chew-on-my-heart-new-album-brandon-flowers-tyler-creator-2703290

Interesting interview with NME, and it confirms this is the lead single for his next album!

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 9th July 2020, 03:04 PM

Woah this is pretty good!

Posted by: JosephStyles 9th July 2020, 03:34 PM

Oh this is excellent!

Posted by: Bjork 9th July 2020, 03:47 PM

wow sounds great

Posted by: M4NGO 9th July 2020, 04:26 PM

This is great, such an earworm from the first listen

Posted by: Rob S 9th July 2020, 10:17 PM

Pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this 'Let It Go', 'Hold Back The River' and 'Best Fake Smile' are all great but I think this could actually become his best song for me.

Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn 9th July 2020, 11:24 PM

This is actually very good, props to him!

I kind of just assumed he'd been flushed with the last era.

Posted by: JosephStyles 13th July 2020, 10:10 PM

Video really captures the vibe of the song I can't get enough of this right now, I think it could be his best since Hold Back the River for me!

Posted by: Rob S 13th July 2020, 10:58 PM

Yeah the video is perfect for the song. Would like this to be a hit or at the very least peak higher than his last lead single which just scraped #39!

Posted by: Bjork 19th July 2020, 10:30 AM

why is this not being sent to radios or playlists? :/

Posted by: Parallel Reality 19th July 2020, 08:15 PM

Really liking this! Even more than 'Hold Back The River' but not quite as much as 'Need The Sun To Break'... yet.

Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn 11th August 2020, 02:57 PM

This just sounds so HUGE! I hope it does something.