{"id":806754,"date":"2020-04-24T08:43:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T14:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=989458"},"modified":"2020-04-24T08:43:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T14:43:12","slug":"hear-james-blakes-dreamy-new-love-song-youre-too-precious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/hear-james-blakes-dreamy-new-love-song-youre-too-precious\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear James Blake\u2019s Dreamy New Love Song \u2018You\u2019re Too Precious\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/JamesBlake.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/james-blake\/\" id=\"auto-tag_james-blake\" data-tag=\"james-blake\">James Blake<\/a> has dropped his dreamy new love song \u201cYou\u2019re Too Precious,\u201d the singer\u2019s first new music since 2019\u2019s <em>Assume Form<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAfter a certain amount of time, somebody becomes too precious to lose,\u201d Blake told Apple Music of the track, an ode of sorts to his girlfriend, <em>The Good Place<\/em> actress Jameela Jamil. \u201cAnd now you want to protect them in any way you can.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Built around a lilting piano melody and subdued beats, Blake twists and contorts his voice like an instrument before laying down the lyrics. \u201cI\u2019ll be a bubble\/I\u2019ll make myself useful,\u201d he sings. \u201cDive into diamonds\/Scratched in your smile.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI wrote this song at 5 a.m. and it brought me a lot of peace,\u201d Blake added of the track. \u201cThought it might be a nice accompaniment to a lockdown dinner.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Blake has frequently livestreamed during self-isolation, including live sessions where he has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/james-blake-radiohead-no-surprises-cover-971996\/\">covered artists like Radiohead<\/a>, Billie Eilish and Frank Ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/james-blakes-precious-989458\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Blake has dropped his dreamy new love song \u201cYou\u2019re Too Precious,\u201d the singer\u2019s first new music since 2019\u2019s Assume Form. \u201cAfter a certain amount of time, somebody becomes too precious to lose,\u201d Blake told Apple Music of the track, an ode of sorts to his girlfriend, The Good Place actress Jameela Jamil. \u201cAnd now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 02:35:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}