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What is your opinion of the song and music video "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt?
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1. The song is...okay. There are some parts where the way the lyrics are set to words are a little grating to me -- a good example is when he sings the title phrase "you're beautiful". It just feels like those words and those notes were sorta awkwardly forced into there. They're not even particularly rhythmic, and they way they're written -- as non-chord tones -- doesn't seem to flow into or out of anything, nor be particularly meaningful in being diatonic dissonances to the underlying chords. Then even after the verse he keeps using this motif...which I guess it's justified by then since he's already used it before. Oh well.
The accompaniment is nice.
Also, the verse seems oddly short -- like it's missing a second musical sentence, before going to the refrain.
Also, not sure why he makes a false start at the beginning of the song -- especially with the disconnected phrase "my life is brilliant", which just seems to be self-aggrandizing.
2. The music video is Yet Another Not Particularly Relevant Music Video.
I can't tell what trinkets he put down.
I SAW YOUR FACE
The video is... weirdly dark, honestly.
Dear Klinotaxis
You classist gimp. I worked for five years in a woman's shelter perfecting the art of not being a creep and have taken over 50 sensitivity training courses and have been rated "not creepy" on every site in which men ask women things ever. Maybe YOU'RE creepy and can't take a sensitive and non-creepy man.
Also I am clearly killing myself in that video
Up yours,
James Cucking Funt
Dear Imipolex G
You classist gimp. I used the meager allowance of 300 thousand pounds a week granted to me by my upper-middle class parents to perfect the art of both songwriting and video creation. I have seen every music video ever released, have received 12 Secret Oscars for my videos, and play every instrument known to man, INCLUDING crushing detuned metal guitars. I make all my decisions as possibly the hardest working most talented human being the world has ever produced and you have no right to judge me. As we used to say at boarding school:
Up yours,
James Cucking Funt
My life is brilliant
Your life's a joke
You're just pathetic
You're always broke
Your homemade Star Trek uniform
really ain't impressin' me
You're sufferin' from delusions of
Adequacy
You're Pitiful
It's true
Never had a date
That ya couldn't inflate
And ya smell repulsive too
What a bummer bein' you
Well ya just can't dance
And forget romance
Everybody you know still calls ya
Farty Pants
But you always have a job well I mean
As long as you still can work that slurpee machine
You're Pitiful
It's true
You're half undressed
Eatin' chips off your chest
While you're playin' Halo 2
No one's classier than you
Lalala la
Lalala la
Lalala la Loser
You're Pitiful
It's true
Your dog would much rather
Play fetch by itself
You still live with your Mom and you're 42
Guess you'll never grow a clue
When it just sucks to be you
or not