Released 11 August 2014 Recorded 2013 Length 3:15 | Format CD
digital download Genre Folk
blues
rock Label Columbia | |
"Blame It on Me" is a song by British singer-songwriter George Ezra. It was released as the fourth single from his debut studio album, Wanted on Voyage (2014). The song was released in the United Kingdom as a digital download on 11 August 2014 through Columbia Records. It debuted at number 6 on the UK Singles Chart, marking Ezra's second consecutive top 10 hit.
The accompanying music video features Ezra having a very bad day, including getting tackled by a rugby team, hit with a rubber bullet fired from a toy gun by a child, defecated on by a bird and winding up in the middle of a gunfight between police officers and criminals.
Music video
An official lyric video to accompany the release of "Blame It on Me" was also issued on 20 June, with Ezra holding an old fashioned TV with the lyrics appearing on it; at the same time, he is sitting on the seat of a dunk tank while several tennis balls are thrown towards it from off-screen. At the end of the bridge, a ball hits the button and Ezra falls into the water. Ezra then holds the TV above his head for a while, whilst his face is barely visible. As the song ends, tennis balls start being thrown towards the TV, which finally falls out of Ezra's hands and into the water. The video then ends with him laughing.
The official music video for "Blame It on Me" was directed by Rob Brandon. It was first released onto YouTube on 11 August 2014 at a total length of three minutes and forty-four seconds. The video begins with a land rover full of criminals driving past Ezra, who is carrying his guitar in its case, and a Japanese man. The man asks Ezra in Japanese, "Are you sure you want to follow the yellow brick road?" and then walks away without Ezra giving a response. The rest of the video features Ezra having a very bad day, including his guitar case blowing open and his guitar falling out in the middle of the road before getting ran over by a police car, getting tackled by a rugby team, hit with a rubber bullet fired from a toy gun by a child, defecated on by a bird and winding up in the middle of a gunfight between police officers and the aforementioned criminals. The video has over 38 million views as of July 2016.