Broken Strings

December 8, 2008

Broken Strings is a duet of the British singer -songwriter James Morrison and the Canadian singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado. It was released as the second single from Morrison's second studio album Songs for You, Truths for Me and reached the beginning of 2009 the top of the charts in Germany and Switzerland.

Formation

Morrison wrote the song along with Fraser T. Smith and Nina Woodford. Initially, the song was not planned as a duet, as Smith confirmed in an interview:

" [ ... ] When James, myself and Nina Woodford were writing the song, and Nina put a harmony in as backing vocal idea. The more we listened to it, the more we thought, " Hey, this could be an interesting duet. " "

Translated: " [ ... ] As James, me and Nina Woodford wrote the song and Nina a Harmony added as an idea for the background voice. The more we heard it, the more we thought, " Hey, this could be an interesting duet. " "

Morrison's label decided to Nelly Furtado duet partner because Furtado and Woodford's voices were quite similar, according to Smith, and contacted them. Furtado told.

Lyrics

The lyrics describe the feelings of a person whose couple's relationship is just failed with another human being. The words " Broken Strings " ( German: "Broken Strings " ) symbolize the broken love, as is clear from the refrain:

Charts

Broken Strings was released on January 16, 2009 in Germany and peaked in the first week, the first place of the charts. There, the duo was able to maintain for five weeks. Thus, it is Morrison's first number -one hit in Germany and Furtado's second after All Good Things ( Come to an End ). In Switzerland, it became a number -one hit. In Austria and the UK, the duet reached number two.

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