Eurovision star Luke Black on the Lily Allen and Nirvana-inspired ‘I’m So Happy’

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Eurovision star Luke Black has returned with the buoyant and Lily Allen-inspired new single ‘I’m So Happy’. Check it out below along with our interview with the artist.Back in May, Black represented his native Serbia at the Song Contest with the political, “cyber-punk”, sci-fi and video game inspired ‘Samo Mi Se Spava‘ (also known as ‘Sleep Forever’).

Now, the London-based artist has returned with a new single – inspired by the landscape, culture and music of his surroundings.“‘I’m So Happy’ is the first song I created when I moved to London to study music,” Black told NME. “It was created at my university with just a piano.

I was walking around with my friend and we were constantly joking about how weird it was when you’d ask someone at school or on the street how they were doing over here and they’d be like, ‘Good, everything’s fine!’.“Culturally, in my country when you ask someone how they’re doing they start spilling their emotions out!

Here, everyone is so chill. I was trying to learn and not overburden everyone with my emotions. Who cares? I tried to learn how to say, ‘I’m so happy and life is good’ – even though really I was tumbling down!”As for the music, Black explained how he “used the sound of London”.“I was really inspired by Lily Allen’s ‘LDN’,” he said. “I was walking through similar surroundings from her music video and seeing the beauty and the faults.