George Ezra has been forced to explain why he changed the lyrics of his recent single 'Green Green Grass' during his performance at the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
Fans of the 29-year old appeared to be unimpressed that he omitted the track's reference to dying.
Normally the star sings: "Green green grass, blue blue sky, you better throw a party on the day that I die."
But instead he simply sang: "Green green grass, blue blue sky" twice over.
After the singer shared a video of his performance on Instagram, one disappointed follower responded: "I really liked the performance, however and I'm not being picky, but what was the deal with the cut-off of the lyrics? Why not just perform a different song altogether?"
Another added: "Such a shame the 'on the day that I die' was removed."
A third user ranted: "A posh boy who can't sing, gifted everything in life allowing his lyrics to be ridiculously censored all to perform for a monarchy defines everything that is wrong with the Disunited Kingdom."
Ezra, however, felt it would be inappropriate given the nature of the event.
"I think the reaction to it has kind of worked in our favour to say it was unnecessary. My gut instinct was that you don't need to change it," he told the Sun.
"I don't know if it came from the royals or the producers of the show, but it's pretty obvious that if you're playing for the Royal Family and the powers that be say, 'We don't want you to sing that lyric,' then you're not going to argue."
He continued: "I'm not demanding anybody does anything on the day that I've passed away. It's a song about celebrating life. And it feels good when you sing it."
Ezra wasn't the only one to change his lines on the night, albeit for different reasons.
American Alicia Keys amended the final chorus of her monster hit 'Empire State of Mind' by swapping 'New York' for 'London' in the "In New York. Concrete jungle where dreams are made of."
Sam Ryder, meanwhile, on the back of his excellent Eurovision showing cleverly changed his Space Man wording from "There's nothing like space man" to "There's nothing like space Ma'am".
He couldn't take credit for the idea though - it was put to him by a listener on Scott Mills and Chris Stark's BBC Radio One show earlier on in the day.
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