To be blunt, James Blunt’s song “You’re Beautiful” really irritates me. In case you haven’t heard it, it sounds like Rod Stewart had a love child with the lead singer of the Fine Young Cannibals and then the resulting progeny decided to sing songs written by 14 year old boys.
The melody is so predicatable that I felt like I could sing along with it before I even heard it through. And then there are the lyrics…
From http://www.toplyrics.net/show.php?l=2985
She smiled at me on the subway.
She was with another man.
But I won’t lose no sleep on that,
‘Cause I’ve got a plan.
…
You’re beautiful. You’re beautiful.
You’re beautiful, it’s true.
I saw your face in a crowded place,
And I don’t know what to do,
‘Cause I’ll never be with you.
Aside from the apparent obvious contradictions which my wife Nicole pointed out between “I’ve got a plan” and “I don’t know what to do” and the sudden transition from “she” in the verse to “you” in the chorus, it generally just strikes me as amateurish – like a song I might’ve written when I was 16 and then threw in the garbage.
But then the song is getting a lot of radio play, so there must be a lot of people that really like it. Maybe it’s just me.
It’s not just you.
What radios play is not necessarily that which has quality, and what people (and I don’t like this somewhat indefinite term either) like does definately not define qualities of any kind (except the quality og being a quantity).
But then again, Blunt is not the most amateurish ‘artist’ to have ever been played on the radio. And all attempts at analyzing the incoherency of the aesthetics of the masses are futile.
Check it out: music.yahoo.com aggrees with you.