And now, 45 answers to the question that will no doubt result from this entry: “How is James Blunt’s 2005 ode to a stolen glance on the Underground not higher than No. 45 on a worst songs of the ’00s list? Really now.” More »
Accordion-wielding parodist “Weird Al” Yankovic is compiling another greatest-hits collection for release this fall, and he wants your help as far as song-selection goes. One song that definitely won’t be on the collection, however, is “You’re Pitiful.” Yankovic’s remake of James Blunt’s mewly, unkillable “You’re Beautiful,” which centers on a guy who takes being white and nerdy to an uncomfortable, Slurpee-filled level, was an “unofficial” “Weird Al” release thanks to Atlantic Records, Blunt’s label, barring its release back in 2006—even though at the time, the singer himself had been OK with the release of the track: More »
“Britons like a dose of music from the rock band Coldplay to help them fall asleep, a survey from hotel chain Travelodge found on Monday…Other artists chosen for their slumber-inducing qualities were James Blunt, Snow Patrol, Take That, and Norah Jones.” More »
Linda Perry, the former 4 Non Blondes frontwoman who went on to produce songs for Christina Aguilera, Pink, and Gwen Stefani, is suing Warner Music Group for royalties she believes she is owed on James Blunt’s Back To Bedlam, which came out on her imprint Custard Records. More »
It’s not on the site yet, but later today, the few remaining James Blunt fans (there are some out there, right?) will be able to purchase downloadable videos of exclusive performances by the scruffy singer-songwriter from MySpace’s music section. The performances are the inaugural offering in Transmissions, a the social-networking site’s latest attempt to stay relevant connect its users to the musicians they loved. Or used to, anyway, before that “You’re Beautiful” song became inescapable.
Proving the sampler really can squeeze the awful out of just about anything, the producer on the new Beanie Sigel single finds the world’s first legitimate use for a James Blunt chorus. We guess sampling Daniel Powter’s “Bad Day” would have been too meta/ironic for Beans. More »
Five words that should strike fear in your soul and make you wish “indie” never existed: James Blunt covers “Young Folks.” (And no, he doesn’t even whistle.) More »
It’s nice to see that Nickelback aren’t the only ones getting slobbed by Billboard for scoring a chart coup today, as James Blunt “completes a notable triple on Billboard’s pan-European charts, debuting atop European Top 100 Albums with his sophomore Atlantic set ‘All the Lost Souls.’ More »
In this New York Times profile of ubiquitous mewler James Blunt, we learn a lot of little factoids about the crooner–women who eat at “trendy meatpacking district restaurants” somehow find him sexy! he’s probably shut down the Ibiza party scene with the power of his own blandness! he’s buddies with Kid Rock!–but probably the most enlightening part of the story is the breakdown of just how, exactly, the world came to be throughly sick of “You’re Beautiful” a year ago:
James Blunt to bring his whiny voice to Sesame Street this season, which will no doubt inject some life into this long-dormant MySpace group. More »