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Olly Murs' 'Dear Darlin'' is inspired by, er, Eminem

  • June 3, 2013
  • Sam Hine

Olly Murs bracesOlly Murs' 'Dear Darlin'' is inspired by Eminem.

Notes Murs: "I always remembered the idea of Marshall Mathers and Eminem when he did 'Stan'. And he was writing a letter and that was one of the sort of ideas we had with this song."

That's sort of like showing people you don't have to text, or tweet or Facebook, surely?

"This song was kind of a way of showing people that you don't have to text or tweet or Facebook. The old-school way of doing things is writing letters and I used to write letters to my girlfriends."

We're not sure if scrawling a cock and balls with sperm shooting out of the top across a school exercise book really counts as writing a letter, Olly, but we'll let this one go.

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