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― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 18 March 2006 11:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― naus (Robert T), Saturday, 18 March 2006 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link
You thought he was shit, but you thought you could make a heap of money out of him and his limp, lifeless songs and ridiculous voice by selling it to people who don't like music, and, oh, boo-hoo, someone else poached him from you before you could squeeze the cash out of him. Cry me a river! That's a pretty self-interested version of "karma" you've got.
Sonned.
― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Saturday, 18 March 2006 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 18 March 2006 18:18 (eighteen years ago) link
I still think he's doing something wrong with his vowels.
― O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Saturday, 18 March 2006 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4701924.stm
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 18 March 2006 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Sound of Walls (Bimble...), Sunday, 19 March 2006 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― gekkopppel, Sunday, 19 March 2006 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link
what i want to know is how many people has he killed ? he said in an interview with a Sydney paper that when he was doing "recon" his seargent told them they were'nt doing there job right if they returned with all there bullets
― grapple (grapple), Monday, 20 March 2006 00:17 (eighteen years ago) link
All the singaporean girls in my office love him. They sit around a pc together and listen to the song and get emotional. I don't mention this because it has any significance vis a vis quality, but it's interesting.
― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 20 March 2006 00:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 20 March 2006 01:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 20 March 2006 04:50 (eighteen years ago) link
Shot at. Not shot -- shot at.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 20 March 2006 12:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― hank s (hank s), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 01:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 12:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link
i guess that was his plan.
― a.b. (alanbanana), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
the pussy bank, that is.
― Emily B (Emily B), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 June 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 5 June 2006 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 June 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 09:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 10:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link
"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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
so awful.
― W4LTER, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 04:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I quite liked his version of Young Folks.
― Alba, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 08:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't hate the recent single. Quite like it, even.
― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 08:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, I do hate that because it's tarnished my year of birth forever.
― Alba, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 09:11 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
Looking forward to that 18-month coma then?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 11:31 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
rockismgonemad.com
― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 11:44 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
Man, if even Geir isn't going to defend the guy....
― Pashmina, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 12:40 (sixteen years ago) link
...then it means ILM has a consensus.
That's fucking dead set frightening.
― King Boy Pato, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 12:49 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link