I was lucky enough to catch James Blunt on
MTV ASK 3-4 days ago. I’m been a fan of his since hearing his hit ‘You’re
Beautiful’ over the radio. Not that I can relate to it. I’ve never had that
sort of electricity whist looking at girls on the MRT. Anyway, the song’s
loosely based on his own experience in the tube, when he saw the EX with some
other.
An amazing video of ‘You’re Beautiful’ and ‘3
Wise Men’ can be found at his page
http://www.jamesblunt.com/video.html#
This man’s actually seriously gifted –
probably abit deeper than the regular Robbie Williams and Ronan Keating. He’s
terribly cynical too. Classier than our own people’s DJ (Glenn Ong). I’ve got a
lot to learn.
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Took this off his site:
James Blunt’s family have served in one
kind of army or another since 995A.D. A long line of warriors. Savages really.
Not a musical bone in any one of their bodies. The only music he heard growing
up was “Happy Birthday” and “Silent Night”. His father considered all music,
even classical, to be unnecessary noise. Although James was not one to rock the
family boat, he didn’t really think he was going to join the army – it sort of
crept up on him. Plus his family didn’t have a boat. Aged fourteen he just held
the teenage conviction that he would have an interesting life – maybe that’s
why he picked the guitar? Then again, maybe if he hadn’t, he would have tripped
over it. He went to University and studied Aerospace Manufacturing Engineering
and Sociology, spending most lectures asleep on the floor at the back. In much
the same way, he ended up in the army. In essence, one day he was sleeping off
a hangover at the back of a sociology lecture hall and the next thing he knew
he was in Kosovo with a gun and a guitar strapped to the side of a tank,
wondering who he could possibly sleep with to get out of this war. To break up
the super attenuated monotony, James would sometimes stroll through Serb
villages wearing an East German cap singing, “All we are saying is give peace a
chance”. “We were peace-keepers at that point,” he explained, shrugging
helplessly.
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James has also been described as the ‘Modern
Woman’s Sex Symbol’.
Spot on. I’m overjoyed to know that. Take
away his voice and the two of us might really have a lot in common. I was
thinking, that means that chicks who think him hot might find me hot too. I
should probably just hang around the James Blunt section at HMV or something –
and peer innocently at babes picking up his CD and perhaps throw them a
question or two..’So do you like James Blunt?’ Who knows, we might just share a
‘You’re beautiful’ moment. Heh.
But seriously, do I really crave the ‘Modern
Woman’? I might just prefer having a collection of aunties like a certain Mr. Bae
Yong Jun.
