{"id":118427,"date":"2024-09-16T12:03:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T12:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/09\/16\/10-years-later-james-bay-is-grateful-for-his-breakthrough-hit-let-it-go\/"},"modified":"2024-09-16T12:03:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T12:03:34","slug":"10-years-later-james-bay-is-grateful-for-his-breakthrough-hit-let-it-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/09\/16\/10-years-later-james-bay-is-grateful-for-his-breakthrough-hit-let-it-go\/","title":{"rendered":"10 years later, James Bay is “grateful” for his breakthrough hit “Let It Go”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Caity Krone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sept. 15 marked the 10th anniversary of James Bay<\/strong>‘s “Let It Go<\/a>,” which reached #16 on the Billboard<\/em> Hot 100 and helped earn him multiple Grammy nominations. It’s his most-streamed song and remains his biggest U.S. hit. James describes what it’s like for him to play the song live, more than a decade after he wrote it.<\/p>\n

“I will go back to where I was when I wrote it, which was a very sort of vulnerable place where I was trying to sort of stay strong in the face of, ultimately, impending … fame\u00a0 … which was wild,” he explains. He laughs, “I will also perform that song … and I’ll be thinking a little bit about, like, what I might have for dinner.” However, he insists, “I’m never not<\/em> tuned in to the audience.”<\/p>\n

“I’m grateful for that song,” he adds, “At times … in my career, it’s carried me … sometimes I need it.” He notes, “I’m very proud of it, because writing it was such a deeply personal and vivid and\u00a0 … chaotic experience. You have to really kind of get into the sort of trenches of yourself and, y’know, dare to say the things.”<\/p>\n

Describing his current relationship to the song — which he most recently performed in the U.S. while opening for his friend Noah Kahan<\/strong> at Madison Square Garden and Fenway Park — James says, “We’re really good friends … I guess we’re like siblings, me and that song, and we’ve done a lot of growing together.”<\/p>\n

“I can’t believe I’m here with that song at my side … and the connection it has with all these people, and the connection I therefore get to have with all these people around the world,” he adds. “I pinch myself about that all the time.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

James’ new album <\/em>Changes All the Time<\/em><\/a> will be out Oct. 4.<\/p>\n