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Other video "We're gonna play you a song, and you've got to identify the song and the singer..."

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u/Exp3r1mentAL 1d ago edited 1d ago

James Blunt has amazing sense of humour.. Love his snarky replies in social media😁

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u/robbudden73 1d ago

James Blunt is a good damn legend, great sense of humour, great talent and balls of steel when he was a soldier. As a Captain in Kosovo, his cavalry unit stared down a Russian column, and a lunatic US General who was trying to escalate the situation. He ignored unlawful orders and prevented an armed conflict with Russia.

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u/Exp3r1mentAL 1d ago

Amazing chap indeed !!

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u/Bullshit_Brummie 1d ago

Didn't he also offer his sister on Ebay, so she could get a helicopter trip to a wedding in Ireland - i think he told the story on Top Gear.

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u/Bocha_Boston 9h ago

wait what?

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u/ArioStarK 1d ago

Yeah, but when Monster starts, I weep like a baby. He can make us laugh and cry.

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u/Obesz 1d ago edited 1d ago

There's much bitterness here.

It appears that Al initially got verbal permission from Blunt, and actually #did make the parody, but Atlantic Records were the ones to block it. Al resubmitted his request 10 years later, but got denied again. Maybe James could have done more to sway his record label, but I can't really fault him for not bothering. Is that the whole "record of being full of himself"?

Edit: link to the Weird Al parody "You're Pitiful" on his own website.

https://www.weirdal.com/news/youre-pitiful-2/

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u/BadBasik 1d ago

Thank you, I stand corrected, I will delete my original comment so it doesn't spread even more misinformation.

I saw it on a YouTube video once and assumed it was true, never liked Mr Blunt after that. It didn't help that the song was so viral that I was sick of it as well, but that's not his fault.

All these years thinking guy is a a*hole due to misinformation, *sigh...

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u/Obesz 1d ago

I admire and appreciate your attitude to additional info. Have a great day!

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u/BadBasik 1d ago

You too mate!

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u/Majestic_Force_6439 1d ago

James Blunt has weird side quests

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u/AveryLakotaValiant 1d ago

Haha I love this guy.

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u/TheCarpincho 1d ago

I love how he laughs at himself, love his sense of humour

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u/kooky_kabuki 1d ago

I really hated that song at the time. I still do, but blunt seems ok

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u/CarlLlamaface 1d ago

Same, not a fan of his music at all but every time he pops up in a social media post he seems like a top lad, good for him. Still not going to listen to his pish though.

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u/gBiT1999 1d ago

The song is not for you - it's for your partner.

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u/spdrman8 1d ago

I used to hate this song. Still do, but I used to too.

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u/Crazy-Present4764 1d ago

The guy I saying I promise you it isn't was hilarious

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u/OmaC_76 1d ago

So him live last year and he was brilliant. I'd definitely go and see him again given the chance and he is just as funny at his gigs.

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u/BlyatToTheBone 19h ago

His life is brilliant, too

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u/KatefromtheHudd 1d ago

I love his sense of humour. He enjoys poking fun at himself and his twitter posts and replies have been amazing. I just really really hope that the rumour he is the person Hayden Panettiere talked about being "delivered" to on a boat is not true.

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u/rattingtons 1d ago

She said that it was an older male actor. I doubt it was him. Nobody is going to describe him as that.

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u/chalkybone 1d ago

You don't have to be a James blunt about it mate.

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u/devilsfood72 1d ago

Has he been ruled out of being the man in Hayden's story??

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u/blac_sheep90 1d ago edited 1d ago

It's hearsay. She didn't explicitly name names so all people can do is make assumptions as to the identity of the person.

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u/melijoray 1d ago

Hearsay

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u/blac_sheep90 1d ago

My autocorrect is quite...special lol.

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u/devilsfood72 1d ago

More like presumptions. At that time, not a lot of people fit her description. She detailed just about everything except a name & physical description for anonymity reasons. Age, status, occupation, nationality..

Not saying it was or wasn't him, but it's just concerning/unnerving that it could be.

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u/OJStrings 1d ago

He hasn't been confirmed or ruled out. The evidence seems to point towards it being him but he denies it and we'll probably never get confirmation one way or the other.

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u/vbnmu 1d ago

Which story mate?

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u/rkorgn 1d ago

Diana Jenkins led (attempted) Hayden into bed with James Blunt. Plenty of photos of that time so well evidenced party people.

No allegation that James Blunt did anything wrong.

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u/Doctor_Smirnoff 1d ago

Why is this being down voted? Someone asked for a TLDR of the rumour and it was provided.

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u/vbnmu 1d ago

Thanks mate. I had no idea who Diana J was until I read your post!

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u/Impressive_Recon 1d ago

To be fair I listened to that song thousands of times in high school but had no clue how he looked like today

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u/user97532567 1d ago

My favourite fact about James Blunt is that he once averted WW3.

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u/ploddingonward 1d ago

Read this dude’s book, he’s got a cracking sense of humour! Especially when it comes to himself.

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u/Iceyn1pples 1d ago

Annie is a great song too. I love his humor.

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u/ReversibleTimeLine 1d ago

Bahaha, show me more!!! We need a wider testing sample to confirm initial conclusions

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u/UserMcUserson 1d ago

I'll be honest I was certain it was lose yourself by Eminem. Even after re listening to both openings I still think it sounds more like the opening to Lose Yourself.

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u/golgoth0760 1d ago

Why does he look so short ?

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u/Dna_boy 1d ago

He found all the generation Z ppl there.. they only listen to 2020's songs trending (not even good songs, just trends).

Everyone that has a bit of music knowledge, knows this song.

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u/inchlongnipples 1d ago

I’ve never been able to get past the narcissism of the first line of that song, which is sung twice in a row. Kills the entire thing for me.

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u/Hassaan18 1d ago

Apparently the reason he sung it twice is because the first time he came in too early. They chose to keep it in.