Talk:Spark (Amy Macdonald song)

What is the song really about.

The following article is no longer on the internet, but I had copied and pasted it into a doc.

New look ... Amy Macdonald

By CHRIS SWEENEY

12:14, 20 Jan 2010

COMEBACK queen Amy Macdonald has written an astonishing song about murdered toddler Jamie Bulger on her new album. The harrowing track, called Spark, has Jamie speaking to his parents Denise and Ralph from beyond the grave. The boy was just two-years-old when twisted thugs Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, both only ten, snatched him from a shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside. His mutilated body was found on a rail track in nearby Walton. The tot died on February 17, 1993 — with Amy’s album set to be released less than three weeks after the 17th anniversary. And it is bound to cause huge controversy on Merseyside.

Her gut-wrenching lyrics include:

“I’m the spaceman flying high, “I’m the astronaut in the sky, “Don’t worry I’m OK now, “I’m the light in the dark, I’m the match, “I’m the spark. Don’t worry I’m OK now.”

The song came to Amy, 22, after she watched a harrowing TV documentary about tragic Jamie. She said: “It’s a really sad song that I wrote about a year ago. “I get inspiration from everywhere. I was sitting watching a TV programme on the horrible murder of little Jamie.

“I wrote it as if it’s him singing to his mum saying, ‘I’m OK and don’t worry about me’.” Amy’s new album, A Curious Thing, is released on March 8 and includes more songs about death. There is a track about Michael Jackson and one dedicated to her late grandparents.

Amy later denied that the song was about Jamie, but there is no ambiguity in what she is quoted to have said in the above article. 114.76.141.68 (talk) 04:24, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

In this interview, Amy Macdonald has explicitly said that the song is not about James Bulger.

More specifically, she says that this claim was a "made up story from The Sun" and that her words were "completely taken out of context".

You are most likely referring to that particular article from The Sun, considering The Sun has done another article about Amy Macdonald in 2016, the writer of which is Chris Sweeney.

That being said, the article you have "copied and pasted into a doc", despite the fact that it no longer exists which that alone renders it invalid as a source, was deleted for a reason. The reason being, it was a made up story, confirmed by Amy Macdonald herself.

If putting that bit of information on the article is that important to you, consider adding it into another section and present the information as is. That is, a news website made a claim and the artist denied it. 5.54.234.114 (talk) 23:18, 2 September 2024 (UTC)