Songfacts®:

• This is a track from British singer-songwriter James Blunt's third studio album, Some Kind of Trouble. The record was recorded in Blunt's private recording studio in Los Angeles and was penned by the singer with The Bird & the Bee's Greg Kurstin whose other collaborations include Lily Allen's UK #1 single, "The Fear."
• Blunt explained this pointed song's meaning in an interview with Mike Ragnoga of Solar Powered KRUU-FM: "I guess the title is misleading because people think it has to do with my experience in the music business. Instead, it's the way a lot of people will look at the world today. If we asked children twenty years ago what they wanted to be, they would say a doctor, or fireman, or race car driver. Now if you ask, they just want to be famous. You turn on the TV and you see images that tell you success is measured by fame. If you open magazines, they tell you what clothes you should wear or what music you should listen to. The song is the story of a teenager who is saying he doesn't want to be force-fed who I should be, this notion of freedom is not freedom at all. I want to be myself."