Especially the one he does from that cliff in the video.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:37 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost
― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link
If that's the actual lyric, he's home safe.
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link
though blunt's status definitely ain't hood.
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:41 (eighteen years ago) link
'I saw her on the subway...she was...wthnthrmn..' Wonder what it would sound like sung by someone with less of a nails-down-the-blackboard voice.
― Mippy (Mippy), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:56 (eighteen years ago) link
However, my vote goes to Cervantes.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mippy (Mippy), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:12 (eighteen years ago) link
Which just proves that not all soldiers are untalented. But Blunt is. Tit.
― Guilty Boksen (Bro_Danielson), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:43 (eighteen years ago) link
-- mark grout (mark.grou...) (webmail), August 24th, 2005 11:39 AM. (later) (link)
I just checked the CD in HMV, and it is true. The single has (edit) on it, so I guess that's not the version.
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mippy (Mippy), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mippy (Mippy), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mippy (Mippy), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
It reminded me of those young NME writers who throw 'fuck' in every sentence as an indication of their rock cool but come across like prefects on a night out with the rude boys. I diskard them uterly.
― Mippy (Mippy), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link
he was on SNL today (feel free to make fun of me for watching SNL, but there was actually a good sketch tonight with lettuce!)...
I'm afraid he's taking over America now....
― Tape Store (Tape Store), Sunday, 4 December 2005 06:19 (eighteen years ago) link
The only thing funnier than Blunt's voice/songs are his facial expressions as he's singing them.
― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 4 December 2005 15:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Nick H (Nick H), Sunday, 4 December 2005 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― biz, Sunday, 4 December 2005 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 4 December 2005 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link
i didn't like it much. but it was strange to hear him do another song,
― terry lennox. (gareth), Friday, 16 December 2005 23:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 2 March 2006 10:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Okeigh, Thursday, 2 March 2006 11:06 (eighteen years ago) link
Not a lot of defending going on here is there?
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 2 March 2006 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link
How else could it defeat all borders and take over like that?
1) Is he 'fit'? (Not especially)2) Interesting personality? (uncheck)3) stunning vocal performance? (strongly disagree)4) Speak of a shared experience that the listener may well empathise with? (ah now....!)
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 2 March 2006 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link
"High" isn't too bad.
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 2 March 2006 11:28 (eighteen years ago) link
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I was WONDERING when someone would make the joke. First thing I thought of too. -- Ned Raggett (ne...), June 30th, 2005.
haha.
but does he REALLY say 'fucking high'?
― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Thursday, 2 March 2006 11:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 2 March 2006 12:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 2 March 2006 12:07 (eighteen years ago) link
He changed his name so's as not to get people confused with our own.
Yes.
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 2 March 2006 12:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 2 March 2006 12:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 2 March 2006 12:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link
--Sasha Frere-Jones in this week's New Yorker
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:18 (eighteen years ago) link
Actually, you aren't supposed to do that when you sing; if you do, you are much more likely to fall off-pitch.
So, um, he can form his vowels correctly when he sings. I guess that's a defense.
― Dan (Fucking Irritating Pusbag Of A Musician) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan ("Terrible" "Horrible" "Stultifying" "Horrendus" "Worthless" Etc Etc Etc) Pe, Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Oops) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:57 (eighteen 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