{"id":583658,"date":"2026-04-05T11:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/583658\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T11:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:03:08","slug":"i-was-getting-down-with-a-guy-and-he-decided-to-put-on-one-love-it-was-creepy-duncan-james-from-blues-honest-playlist-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/583658\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I was getting down with a guy and he decided to put on One Love. It was creepy\u2019: Duncan James from Blue\u2019s honest playlist | Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"

The song I inexplicably know all the lyrics to
Can\u2019t Help Falling in Love by Elvis \u2013 the song I\u00a0sent off on tape as my audition to Blue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The song I do at karaoke
I had my 30th birthday party in a karaoke bar above a Chinese restaurant. My mum was doing It\u2019s\u00a0Raining Men by Geri Halliwell, just as Geri herself walked in, so she grabbed her, brought her on stage, and went: \u201cSing. It\u2019s your song.\u201d I\u00a0thought: \u201cMum. She\u2019s just arrived. Chill out!\u201d<\/p>\n

The first single I bought
I spent a lot of time with my grandparents because my mum was a nurse. My gran said pop music hurt her ears, so I asked my friend Tracy to buy me something from Woolworths that my gran would approve of. She bought Sadeness (Part I) by Enigma, which has Gregorian chanting and a sexual bit where a woman sounds as if she\u2019s having an orgasm.<\/p>\n

The first song I fell in love with
I remember jumping on the sofa, doing twizzles in the air, going mad to Fantasy Island by Tight Fit, maybe because my little gay self was in love with the guy in the zebra print headband from\u00a0the video.<\/p>\n

The song that makes me\u00a0cry
The Spanish Netflix series called La Casa De\u00a0Papel (Money Heist) that came out around lockdown is one of the best things I\u2019ve ever seen. Every time I hear the title track, My Life Is\u00a0Going On by Cecilia Krull, I cry like a baby.<\/p>\n

The best song to have sex to
I was getting down with a random one-off, and he decided to put on One\u00a0Love by Blue. I said: \u201cWhy would I want to make out listening to my own voice?\u201d He said: \u201cI thought it would be fun.\u201d I said: \u201cNo. It\u2019s creepy. You need to change the music as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The song that changed my life
When we went to Norway to record All\u00a0Rise, the producers wanted us to sing it very\u00a0tough and staccato over this hardcore, techno, Europop beat. When we heard the finished version, it was\u00a0nothing like we\u2019d recorded; it became a\u00a0worldwide hit and started Bluemania.<\/p>\n

The best song to play at a party
I love a bit of musical theatre, so if someone plays Defying Gravity from Wicked, I\u2019ll be up on a table.<\/p>\n

The song I can no longer listen to
Every time I hear Meu Abrigo (My Shelter) by the Brazilian group Melim, it just reminds me of my ex, and makes me feel sad.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The song I secretly like, but tell everybody I hate
I do love a bit of cheese. I\u00a0think Doctor Jones by Aqua is such a great record, even if it makes everyone question my musical taste.<\/p>\n

The song I\u2019d like played at my funeral
Bohemian Rhapsody by\u00a0Queen is one of the greatest songs ever written, and a bit left field if you don\u2019t want something sad and gloomy. You don\u2019t want too much drama as you\u2019re being cremated.<\/p>\n

Blue\u2019s new album Reflections is out now. They tour the UK from 7\u00a0April to 26 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The song I inexplicably know all the lyrics toCan\u2019t Help Falling in Love by Elvis \u2013 the song…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-583658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}