{"id":403358,"date":"2026-09-18T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403358\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T08:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T08:00:30","slug":"jamie-t-celebrates-british-icons-on-new-single-tallahassee-out-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403358\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie T celebrates British icons on new single &#8216;Tallahassee&#8217; out today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following a surprise show at SCALA, a secret show at Reading Festival and the announcement of his new album, Jamie T has shared brand new single \u2018Tallahassee\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second single from his forthcoming sixth album Ghosts (100 Days of Morning), \u2018Tallahassee\u2018 samples the Canadian folk singer Leif Vollebekk\u2019s song of the same name, with Jamie mentioning some of his favourite artists and true icons of the British musical landscape; Lily Allen, The Streets, Tracy Emin, Paul Heaton (The Beautiful South) and Liam Howlett (The Prodigy). <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking on the single, he shares:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI chose to sample Leif\u2019s song as it means the world to me. His version has been a constant through some hard personal times in my life, so it felt fitting. I wrote it before an important moment for complete validation for all the years of work I had put in.\u00a0 The song is almost me trying and failing to give myself a pep talk in the mirror before the biggest show of my career\u201c.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch the video for \u2018Tallahassee\u2019 above and stream <a href=\"https:\/\/jamiet.lnk.to\/tallahassee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a surprise show at SCALA, a secret show at Reading Festival and the announcement of his new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[160468,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-403358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-jamie-t","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}