But what was number one ten years ago, you say? Well, I say. Maybe you say, I don’t know. But I do. Say, that is. And at the top spot at the end of October 2012 was
Title: “Beneath Your Beautiful”
Artist: Labrinth featuring Emeli Sande
Nationality: British (English and Scottish)
Genre: R&B
Written by: Timothy McKenzie (Labrinth), Adele, Emeli Sande, Mike Posner
Original release date: October 18 2012
Progress to the top: Hmm, very confusing. Says it was released in 2011 and only got to no. 200, but then contradicts that, saying it was released in 2012 and seems to have made a very quick rise to the top. Well, looking at the chart I can see it was 85 the previous week, so it actually barrelled up the chart leaping an enormous 84 places in one week! And then it only stayed there one week, already dropping to number 2 the very next week. Ah, the fickle chart single buyers!
Weeks spent at number one: 1
From the album: Electronic Earth by Labrinth and also
Our Version of Events (as a bonus track) by Sande
What do I know about this artist? Nuffin
What do I think of this single? A gorgeous soft love ballad with a kind of bittersweet feel and some really nice orchestration. Very nice indeed.
What have I learned about this single? Like a proper grammar Nazi, I wondered if there was an apostrophe missing, or if this was somehow a sort of “beneath your beauty” idea. Seems it’s the former, and it’s done on purpose to annoy people like me, so **** that guy. I wonder if he actually knew he was making a mistake, deliberate or not, and whether he just then used this “I don’t care/I did it on purpose” to cover his lack of knowledge of English grammar? Either way, he’s a prick. No, scratch that: he’s having a laugh now that I’ve listened to the song. It is “let me see beneath your beautiful/beneath your mask”. It’s the possessive, so he’s writing it correctly, but just ****ing people around. All right then, he’s not a prick, I take that back.
My rating: A++