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What's the Brit Award-winning Taio Cruz been up to?

  • May 6, 2008
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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar2pKa1fp98

He's been 'readying' his new single! Taio had his fun grinding up against ladies in the 'Come On Girl' video and now it's time to get serious. It's time to talk about power: the power that we all have within us.

In summary:

1. The prettiest things can come out of the coldest night
2. Even with broken wings sometimes you find your way to fly

3.
It's time to be bigger, stronger, harder

4.
Sometimes the pain is what we need for us to grow

"Now come Taio you old bastard," you might be thinking. "It's all very well for you to say that but what about some practical help?"

Fortunately, Taio is ready. As he notes in the song: "I can be anything I want to be, all I have to do is put my mind to it and I can do it. So what I want you to do is put your fist in the sky and sing with me: I can be bigger, stronger, harder."

POTENTIAL SELF-HELP BOOK AHOY!

Unfortunately the sad fact of the matter is that for every person who succeeds in turning their life around through positive thinking, there are ten people whose lives never really improve and whose lives may in fact be even more packed with dis­ap­point­ment and perceived failure thanks to nonstop day­dream­ing about how great things really could be. 'These things' are not sent 'to try us' — 'these things' are usually shit events in and of them­selves. Sometimes life is just terrible and no amount of positive thinking will change that fact. Nothing changes. It's just day after day of strug­gling to keep your head above water until one day you die, the only tragedy being that you're not alive to feel relief that it is all finally over. Still, put your fist in the sky and sing along with Taio…

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