Oh.. Katie Melua - she's great live! Seen her two years ago. She was pregnant in like the 7th or 8th month aand still playing concerts... Regarding the asian influence: she's Georgian, which means she's right from the eastern edge of Europe. And also, her producer wrote the song after they were in Beijing before and a guide told the 9 million bikes thing. After release a physicist wasn't happy with the line "12 million light years from the edge" and proposed a correct version: “We are 13.7 billion light-years from the edge of the observable universe, That’s a good estimate with well-defined error bars, Scientists say it’s true, but acknowledge that it may be refined, And with the available information, I predict that I will always be with you.”