You ask anyone in the history of music, there are highs and lows – exciting bits and things that don't work so well. Yeah, fuck it! Musicians always have ups and downs. I think the word is kind of offensive-it's not something I aspire to be or will ever be. I've never been cool, not even at school. I'm just curious as to when you looked at all that and still decided you weren't "cool." It's keeping me in business.Įxactly, but you came out with this hit single that's still instantly recognizable, you achieved global fame. I've just announced my fifth world tour and a world tour is a pretty special thing! A lot of people only tour North London and that's what I thought I'd only be doing. Right, you've kind of branded yourself the Nickelback of sad boy songwriting. I suppose I have been so self-deprecating for so, so long, maybe it is disrespectful to the 20 million people who actually bought albums. You know, I'm British so I take the mickey out of myself, it's what we do best.
Why is that? You don't feel like you underrate yourself? You've been in this game for a while now and yet you're still so self-deprecating. I think a lot of people might not realize this is your album. So how did everybody get James Blunt so wrong? We went straight to the source and talked his Twitter persona, deep friendship with Carrie Fisher, and play a few songs for the PAPER Penthouse (including, of course, "You're Beautiful"). Unknowingly, James turned token British self-deprecation into a powerful promotional machine, because who doesn't relate to a little self-loathing? Even though the singer has achieved the success many artists could only dream of, releasing his fifth studio album today, embarking on his fifth world tour, James Blunt's digital presence is essentially drag after James Blunt-drag.and it took off. Blunt has amassed a social media following ( to rival some of the biggest pop stars in the world, but he didn't do so by being sensitive James Blunt he did it by absolutely slaughtering our idea of James Blunt. This is the James Blunt we thought we knew.Īnd then there was Twitter. The guy who writes a song about pining for a beautiful stranger he knows he'll never see again. The kind of guy to favor leather wrist cuffs.
The kind of guy that would reply to an "idk" with a tear emoji. James Blunt, to all of us, became the kind of guy that straps his guitar to his back and heads into the woods to be at one with nature. This created eternally sensitive sad boy James Blunt, favorite of your mum and nostalgic millennials ("thumbs up if you are watching in 2016,and you are really beautiful and it's tRue!" is the most-liked comment on the video). In short, James Blunt and his song – which is really about coveting someone's girlfriend on the subway while high on drugs – resonated with a whole damn heap of people. Walking up to strangers on the London underground and telling them they’re beautiful.When googling James Blunt, you will immediately be directed to the video for his 2005 single "You're Beautiful." In it, a shaggy James strips in the snow and sings about the girl in his dreams, before diving off a cliff into the ocean while singing "I will never be with you." It's been over 10 years since "You're Beautiful" went no.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and its visual counterpart has racked up a casual 140 million views. I did Bake Off with her and she is just awesome. Who would play you in the film of your life?Īlison Hammond. My hair, face, nose, neck, stomach, legs and feet. What do you most dislike about your appearance? I started shouting at a guy on the stage to help me up – but then realised he was the BBC cameraman and I was shouting, “Help me!” to the nation. My third time playing at Glastonbury, I crowd surfed, but the stage was too high to climb back on to. What is the trait you most deplore in others? What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
He is married with two children and lives in Ibiza. On 19 November he will release his greatest hits, The Stars Beneath My Feet (2004-2021). In 2004, he released his debut album, Back to Bedlam, which went on to become the UK’s biggest-selling album of the decade. B orn in Hampshire, James Blunt, 47, became an officer in the British army and served with Nato forces during the 1998-99 Kosovo war.
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