Jamie T on his a six-year silence, oligarchs, and Kim Jong-Un


Jamie T on his a six-year silence, oligarchs, and Kim Jong-Un

 

It's not every day you hear a love song about Kim Jong-Un.

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But if you fire up Jamie T's new album and skip to a track called 50,000 Unmarked Bullets, that's exactly what you'll find.

The lyrics are slightly cryptic, but a reference to a "boarding school in Gumligen" unlocks the puzzle- because that's where Kim allegedly studied as a teenager in the 1990s under the name "Chol-pak".

"Well done! Good research," laughs the singer, full name Jamie Treays, when I put the theory forward.

Then a pause.

"Um, how do you explain that you wrote a song about Kim Jong Un?"

The explanation is actually pretty solid. The song started as a writing exercise, in which he tried imagine a situation "where you feel sorry for the son of a dictator".

"The whole idea is that he's at The Hague on trial for war crimes but he's worried that the transcripts don't show quite how romantic his time at baccalaureate school with his girlfriend was," says the singer.

"He doesn't want her to hear the transcripts, because that's their romance ruined - and he's more bothered by that than anything."

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