Defend the Indefensible: James Blunt

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― jed_ (jed), Monday, 20 March 2006 01:12 (twenty years ago)

The only thing I can myster in defense of this awful, awful song is that the chord change on the line "And I don't know what to do" is midldy unpredictable in relation to the interchangeable circle-of-fifths shit that comprises the rest of that fucking thing.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 20 March 2006 04:50 (twenty years ago)

Wikipedia: In a TV4 Nyhetsmorgon interview, he mentioned that he had been shot at more times than 50 Cent.

Shot at. Not shot -- shot at.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 20 March 2006 12:27 (twenty years ago)

heh heh...England Dan and John Ford Coley...

― hank s (hank s), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:17 (twenty years ago)

This past weekend I was in Boston for my annual fantasy baseball draft, a day-long affair with 14 other guys getting shitfaced and comparing the relative merits of Brian McCann vs Kenji Jojhima. We realized during that afternoon that James is in fact doing a very bad Katharine Hepburn impersonation for most of that song. It's a remarkably short line from "she was WITH anutha MAHN" to "the calla lilies are in bloom" . . . but it's even more fun to deliver the lyric in full Ethel Merman bombast. In fact, that's just what I'll do next time I do karaoke.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 01:55 (twenty years ago)

YES! That's what I was trying to put a finger on!

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 12:50 (twenty years ago)

Some ice dancing couple used this song for their exhibition skate at the World Figure Skating championships yesterday.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:07 (twenty years ago)

James is in fact doing a very bad Katharine Hepburn impersonation
Find me a girl who can sing like Cary Grant and I'll bankroll "The Philadelphia Story: The Musical".

― O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:57 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Blunt has got a message for us folks !

James Blunt delivered a blunt message to his “bastard” detractors yesterday – telling them at least his music is “getting me laid”.
http://www.gigwise.com/news.asp?contentid=17616

He said, “To all those bastards who don’t like my music who don’t like my music – you’re all adults, you can switch your radio off.

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:16 (twenty years ago)

apparently one of the things he learned during his time in the army was how to pilot a ROFLcopter

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:39 (twenty years ago)

“getting me laid”

i guess that was his plan.

― a.b. (alanbanana), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:43 (twenty years ago)

Singing in a fake weird mid atlantic accent repeating the words "your Beautiful" like a parrot = "getting me laid" according to Blunt

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:47 (twenty years ago)

probably v true tho

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:50 (twenty years ago)

He said, “To all those bastards who don’t like my music who don’t like my music – you’re all adults, you can switch your radio off.

Did he say "who don't like my music" twice because he came in too early for his backing track?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:57 (twenty years ago)

the man has a point, and he's laughing all the way to the bank if he's for real.

the pussy bank, that is.

― Emily B (Emily B), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:31 (twenty years ago)

The NRO makes a discovery.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 June 2006 16:59 (twenty years ago)

On patrol around Pristina, he kept his guitar bolted to the outside of his tank.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 5 June 2006 17:33 (twenty years ago)

"This guitar kills separatists."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 June 2006 17:50 (twenty years ago)

On patrol around Pristina, he kept his guitar bolted to the outside of his tank.

you can saee them now can't you - staring moodily into their coffee in the mountain fastnesses of Kosovo, haunted, not by what they did during the war, but by what they didn't do........ as 'you're beautiful' comes on the radio.......again

― sonofstan (sonofstan), Monday, 5 June 2006 19:51 (twenty years ago)

"This tank contains Blunt"

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:02 (twenty years ago)

The missing link between David Gray and Ronan Keating.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 09:31 (twenty years ago)

is Blunt the most laughable AOR star since david hasselhoff ?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 10:41 (twenty years ago)

Ned beat me to it. DAMN.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 11:54 (twenty years ago)

Is that a good thing or a bad thing for you Geir? (he's pretty melodic no?)

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 15:52 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

"We will license these records, in movies, TV and commercials...Trust me, you will hear these records."

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 04:36 (eighteen years ago)

Good thing President Bush doesn't negotiate with terrorists who make threats like this. A black helicopter is hopefully on its way to Warner Music Group right now.

― Cunga, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 04:51 (eighteen years ago)

so awful.

― W4LTER, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 04:58 (eighteen years ago)

I quite liked his version of Young Folks.

― Alba, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 08:29 (eighteen years ago)

I don't hate the recent single. Quite like it, even.

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 08:41 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I do hate that because it's tarnished my year of birth forever.

― Alba, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 09:11 (eighteen years ago)

i haven't heard his new stuff. wake me up when it disappears.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 11:27 (eighteen years ago)

Looking forward to that 18-month coma then?

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 11:31 (eighteen years ago)

i'm slightly scared that i don't find 1973 utterly execrable. i'm either over the hill or he's actually got better.

― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 11:37 (eighteen years ago)

i kind of feel that gwen, justin, and xtina all undershot last year and maybe mankind will luck out and blunt will also fade sooner than anticipated.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 11:37 (eighteen years ago)

rockismgonemad.com

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

There are a huge number of acts that annoy me more, and I don't understand the outright hatred.

That being said, I'm pretty indifferent towards the entire guy, and there are numerous musically similar acts that would have deserved his success way more.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 12:36 (eighteen years ago)

Man, if even Geir isn't going to defend the guy....

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

...then it means ILM has a consensus.

That's fucking dead set frightening.

― King Boy Pato, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

The weird thing about that NYT article is that they talk to Linda Perry about how he had a huge song that everyone hated without even bringing up that she wrote fucking "What's Up."

Charlie's right that "1973" is unsettlingly OK.

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 13:06 (eighteen years ago)

Someone who knows about these things told me recently that he doesn't even write his own material, which surprised me. But then, given that Blunt probably wasn't even born in 1973, that kind of makes sense.

"You're Beautiful" is definitely this decade's "What's Up" though, ie the worst song of their respective decade.

― harveyw, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

Are there people who now champion 70s soft-rock who wanna argue that this kinda stuff in its 70s incarnation was good but Blunt is bad? Just curious

― J0hn D., Wednesday, 19 September 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

Are you arguing that there were no 70s soft-rock acts that were substantially better than James Blunt?

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

Did the question mark at the end of my sentence fail in its mission?

― J0hn D., Wednesday, 19 September 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno, it just seemed like an odd rhetorical stance to make unless that was your implication. Aren't there obviously tons of people who would make the argument your asking for? Were you trying to get a show of hands?

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

James Blunt is not Mondeo Pop. No way.

― acrobat, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

Alex get a cup of coffee or a something, it's a question

― J0hn D., Wednesday, 19 September 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

if I'd known I was writing for professorial scrutiny instead of asking a question on a fuckin message board though maybe I'd've been extra careful about the "rhetorical stance" I'm taking by wondering something out loud

― J0hn D., Wednesday, 19 September 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

I think the issue is clearly that I've already had a cup of coffee.

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

I remember some interview (Linda Perry?) where she says something about "ah, he'd pretty much finished it" about her contribution.

So, why was her contribution necessary? It's not like it's a wonderful song afterwards either.

Is he still 'not completely writing songs' now?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

there was another songwriter employed on 'you're beautiful'. suzy knew her.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

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