Wrong (not geir).
I've nothing against actual hip hop. I just have never liked that corporate session drummer style that is vaguely shuffley and 'hip hop influenced', but somehow too tasteful and technical sounding (especially when the actual drums have that nasty, hard, grainy, ambient-mic-ed 'live' sound very common today and over the last ten years or so).
― dubmill, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
"You're Beautiful" is definitely this decade's "What's Up" though, ie the worst song of their respective decade.
That'd be "The Ketchup Song" and "Macarena".
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I actually think this hip-hop/electronica kind of effects added to otherwise AOR style music is often great. Has worked well for Dido and Lene Marlin among others. But obviously not for James Blunt.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 21:21 (sixteen years ago) link
About.com sez:
Just because an artist is not particularly cool doesn't mean their music is unpleasant or even of poor quality. James Blunt's music is of very high quality, but it's those Bee Gees flashbacks his voice inspires that place him on the uncool list. It's possible that songs like the current mega-hit "You're Beautiful" will endure as treasured pop classics, but it's also possible it will eventually elicit the same snickers as Barry Gibb's wailing falsetto on "Tragedy." While he is comfortably selling millions of CDs to his fans, there are millions more that liken Blunt's high pitched voice to fingernails on a chalkboard.
― ilxor, Friday, 6 March 2009 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Antony is actually mancute when he has a wig on, but in his chemo Studio 54 get-up he's nothing to write home about.― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 June 2005 12:29 (3 years ago) Bookmark
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 June 2005 12:29 (3 years ago) Bookmark
remember him this way
― they probably drink corporate water (country matters), Friday, 6 March 2009 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link
His second album's really good for a posh bloke!
― Party Sausage, Friday, 6 March 2009 16:20 (fifteen years ago) link
His version of Where is My Mind? by The Pixies is really good too, he makes it into a real epic.
― Party Sausage, Friday, 6 March 2009 16:27 (fifteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/28536211731648512
<3 <3 <3
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 21 January 2011 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Singer James Blunt 'prevented World War III'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11753050
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/49934000/jpg/_49934426_010636299-1.jpg
Singer James Blunt has told the BBC how he refused an order to attack Russian troops when he was a British soldier in Kosovo. Blunt said he was willing to risk a court martial by rejecting the order from a US General.
But he was backed by British Gen Sir Mike Jackson, who said: "I'm not going to have my soldiers be responsible for starting World War III."
Blunt was ordered to seize an airfield, but the Russians had got there first.
In an interview with BBC Radio 5 live, broadcast on Sunday, he said: "I was given the direct command to overpower the 200 or so Russians who were there.
"I was the lead officer with my troop of men behind us... "The soldiers directly behind me were from the Parachute Regiment, so they're obviously game for the fight.
"The direct command [that] came in from Gen Wesley Clark was to overpower them. Various words were used that seemed unusual to us. Words such as 'destroy' came down the radio."
― Mark G, Monday, 9 September 2013 13:05 (ten years ago) link
That's an old story
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Monday, 9 September 2013 13:06 (ten years ago) link
So it is. Apols.
So, why is it in the "Top 20 news stories of Today" ?
― Mark G, Monday, 9 September 2013 13:12 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I wondered that myself. Something to do with Syria or, more horrifically, he has a new album coming out?
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Monday, 9 September 2013 13:13 (ten years ago) link
i bet its in Top 20 news stories of Today because people keep visiting it esp after its posted on messageboards and that
― conrad, Monday, 9 September 2013 13:43 (ten years ago) link
He has got a new album coming out, can't Obama do something about that too?
This is weird tho, from Wikipedia:
Blunt has just finished[58] recording his fourth studio album, entitled Moon Landing, as revealed by the singer in an email to fans.[59] It was released in October 2013 and featured production from Back to Bedlam producer Tom Rothrock. The lead single, "Bonfire Heart", was released on 7 October 2013.[60]
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Monday, 9 September 2013 13:53 (ten years ago) link
we don't think about this enough but at this point wikipedia literally knows everything about everything, obv including the future
― sleepingbag, Monday, 9 September 2013 14:16 (ten years ago) link
Oh, it doesn't matter what I'm loking for, it just knows.
e.g. I was looking for "Clinic"
top google search gives me "Clinic (group)" yep, that's the exact Clinic I wanted.
ymmv, obv.
― Mark G, Monday, 9 September 2013 14:23 (ten years ago) link
Strange - it's actually an old story with an old date. I'd assumed it was being trotted out as a new story to coincide with a new album. Still, if true, I can't really begrudge him his music making anymore.
― djh, Monday, 9 September 2013 19:07 (ten years ago) link
https://twitter.com/JamesBlunt/status/753618984659025920
― 龜, Friday, 15 July 2016 13:14 (seven years ago) link
@JamesBluntIf you thought 2016 was bad - I'm releasing an album in 2017.https://twitter.com/JamesBlunt/status/808599054989070336
― skip, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
He really is terrible.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 February 2018 02:44 (six years ago) link
A public service announcement:
During lockdown, while many other artists are doing mini-concerts from their homes, I thought I’d do you all a favour and not.— James Blunt (@JamesBlunt) March 25, 2020
― Roz, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:27 (four years ago) link
When you laugh about people thinking you're shit to show what a good sport you are, but you're still shit
― Two Gentlemen with the Rona (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:29 (four years ago) link
Just overheard this song at the supermarket after years of not thinking about it, but this year has turned to dogshit so yeah why not?
Anyways... is the false start with “my life is brilliant” an accident? I had never noticed it before but it seems like he starts singing it by accident, stops and then starts again and I don’t understand why they didn’t edit that part out.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 04:57 (three years ago) link
why didn't they edit the entire song out
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 04:59 (three years ago) link
Forget it I just checked the wikipedia article and it’s in fact an accident left on the album but not on the radio version guess that’s why I didn’t notice it before.
Apparently Weird Al even references it in his parody.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 05:00 (three years ago) link
Male Adult Contemporary Artist Is Amusingly Self-Aware On Social Media
^ richard marx has been similar on twitter occasionally iirc, there may also be others i'm not remembering atm
― dyl, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 05:30 (three years ago) link
Ah, of course.
James Blunt developed scurvy after adopting an all-meat diet to assert his masculinity https://t.co/n6m9dNwSqc pic.twitter.com/zarV44uH9v— Jezebel (@Jezebel) August 20, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 August 2020 15:32 (three years ago) link
Not a fan of this guy's music, but I love his sense of self irony.
― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 13 February 2022 19:04 (two years ago) link