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Blunt is broke

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Artists: James Blunt
James Blunt has no dough, apparently...

The singer has told a popular red-top rag that, despite selling well over a million copies of Back To Bedlam, he is proper broke.

"I haven't been paid, so I'm skint," he told the paper (okay, The Sun). "I don't own a car or an apartment. But I do own a motorcycle for getting around London. Money doesn't mean that much to me anyway. I've been used to having no cash for years. And it would be crazy to have an apartment because I'm staying in hotels every day anyway."

It's a flat, you fuck. Where do you think London is, California? Guess you dig soccer and reckon lager's proper beer, eh? Also, Blunt told The Mirror's 3am Girls that he wouldn't rule out dating a fan, as he's no desire to die alone.

That's fine with us, Blunt - we'll watch and clap along, if you like.

Cunt.


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"Also, Blunt told The Mirror's 3am Girls that he wouldn't rule out dating a fan, as he's no desire to die alone.

That's fine with us, Blunt - we'll watch and clap along, if you like. Cunt"

That is cruel, tasteless, sick and wrong. Why can't I stop laughing?

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What a cunt, what consideration does he pay to the homeless people in their sleeping bags in the streets when he is swanning past on his fucking motorbike. Come on boy racers, lets knock the fucker of his bike for the ultimate roadkill...

Asher - p.s. What is Blunt's number plate by the way, and what type of bike does he own? Come on thieves, there are plenty of you lot in London...you know what

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At least he's thinking of dying, that's got to be a positive.

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God listen to urselves!!
Pathetic!!
U guys are so bloody opinionated and simple!! Give the guy a break! I went to see james Blunt last night and to be fair he was fucking good! Very refreshing actually! Let me guess you guys are all into ur metal, scar, punk or ur 'own' music as you are in some shitty band!! Well guys keep ur opinons actual 'opinions' and not just mindless insults and harsh four letter words. (unless thats all ur vocabulary will stretch to) Get a fucking life and shut the fuck up!!!!!!!

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"Scar" LOL!

He's right to a degree though, Blunt is terrible but there's worse things in the world we can direct our anger towards.

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Erm...I'm into none of those things myself.

This is a long debate but the reason I don't like James Blunt is because I DO like acoustic music and there is some incredible smart, funny and original stuff out there that gets ignored in favour of reactionary bland acts like Monsieur Blunt.

As a result people think acoustic music is only the bland, dull stuff and, as a result, anyone doing anything original, entertaining or different constantly finds themselves dismissed as "just another acoustic singer-songwriter".

To me Blunt symbolises everything that is reactionary, snobbish, passionless, misprioritised and flawed about the UK acoustic scene (and it's a scene I know a little about) and this is why his music angers me so much.

I'm glad you enjoyed Mr Blunt's gig last night and you are entitled to your own opinion but I'd appreciate you not telling me why I have such-and-such opinion, especially when it's based on inaccurate assumptions about me.

This is actually the funniest thing I've ever seen.

I love the thing about four-letter words. Embedded within a plethora of four-letter words. Brilliant.


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bloody blunt....

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Motorbike, you say? Around London, you say?

Any Londoners here drive? +10 indie points if you can knock this fucker off his bike...

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I think I've just literally wet myself :P

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This man is minor royalty so what the fuck is he on about - stop pretending youre down from Darlington with 4 quid in yr back pocket, prick.

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Good point, prole, you missed out one overriding thing though.

Blunt is a cunt.

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Hey, can anyone do some clever photo editing? It'd be great if the sign behind him with the arrow said TWUNT.

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http://tinyurl.com/dqgvo

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(tee hee)

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that has so made my month.

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that has so made my month.

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loving your work

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Can we have the doctored picture on the article please? Instead of the normal one.

please?

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No.

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Wow, thank you! Glad to see the DiS suggestions box works! We could put a TWUNT one on the article though, no?

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No, indeed.

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I've been used to having no cash for years. And it would be crazy to have an apartment because I'm staying in hotels every day anyway.

Oh you poor deprived smarmy smug cock choking piece of shit, MY HEART BLEEDS

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broke, yep, believe that one.

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very unlikely he is broke- the amount of chuffing albums he's sold! he must just be waiting for a fat royalty cheque any moment- git.

anyway- he was an officer in the army! they pay you a little bit more money than the definition of broke..

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He won't die alone.
He'll die on a wooden platform surrounded by a mob of 'disgruntled music consumers' waving flaming brands and chanting "Clunt! Clunt! Clunt!". And a posse of hangmen.

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let's make that dream happen.

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at least that thought might give him something even vaguely interesting to sing about..

or alternatively (and preferably) chuck it in altogether..

like the hangmen possee idea.


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yeah and where does he sleep when his is playing live?

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wouldn't he have been paid for that interview anyway?

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The only place this guy can get any column space-The Daily Fuckin mirror.

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And here.

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What's wrong with the Daily Mirror? It's easily one of the best national newspapers in this country.

OK, I accept that this is more a damning indictment of the state of UK newspaper journalism than it is praise of the Daily Mirror but I stick by that statement anyway.

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it's the best tabloid, but let's face it, that's not saying much is it

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What's wrong with the Daily Mirror? It's easily one of the best national newspapers in this country.

OK, I accept that this is more a damning indictment of the state of UK newspaper journalism than it is praise of the Daily Mirror but I stick by that statement anyway.

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What's wrong with the Daily Mirror? It's easily one of the best national newspapers in this country.

OK, I accept that this is more a damning indictment of the state of UK newspaper journalism than it is praise of the Daily Mirror but I stick by that statement anyway.

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Ok I don't feel that strongly about the bloody paper! Why the hell did it post three times?

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Who actually give a fuck?

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what, about blunt, or the daily mirror?

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The bugger can't be that skint, I saw him in the Water Rats last night and he was spending a few quid on impressing sychophantic young girls, fucking gimp! I was there to see Okkervil River's sold out show by the way, why have DiS not heard of this amazing band?

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We have.
But we are busy (well, I was too busy to go to the show in question, anyway...)

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We have.
But we are busy (well, I was too busy to go to the show in question, anyway...)

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i say apartment...

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You also like 'emo', even though 'emo' doesn't actually mean jack shit.
You sure your sur name isn't blunt?

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emo doesn't mean jack shit? i don't even understand what that comment is supposed to mean. and no my surname isn't blunt.

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Im saying 'emo' - as a musical genre, is a load of bollocks.
'emo' is short for emotional music is it not?
Surely any kind of music is capable of emotion.
'emo' was just a convenient way for lazy journos and industry types to catagorise music in order to mazimize sales...
Thats what I meant.
Secondly, by asking if your name was blunt I was questioning the fact that some who calls a flat an apartment or thinks 'emo' actually means jack shit (get it now?) might be a James Blunt (rhyming slang for... well, you work it out)...

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"Surely any kind of music is capable of emotion."

Have you listened to daytime Radio 1 lately?

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skint? i am painfully overdrawn and unemployed... does anyone know where i can get this free motorcycle and hotel rooms? at least i have the roof over my head... what about all those skint homeless people in london who he drives past on his motorbike heading to his hotel rooms every day...

how the fucking other half live, eh?

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Doesn't he have WADS OF SPUNKY cash from his drug dealing days?

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But his fans are all over 30 right?

With all that promotion it's not suprising he has no money.

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That picture makes him look like the guy at the end of "Jeepers Creepers" when he's had his eyes removed.

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If you cross your eyes when you read the last post, you can see a 3D boat

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Sail boat?

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a schooner?

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A schooner is a sailboat.

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On the way home from work I heard a busker doing 'You're Beautiful' (is that the right title) at Euston Station. What Blunt wants to do is strap his acoustic guitar to his tank and get down the northern line and claim those royalties.

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It's a Schooner!

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Is it me or has James Blunt got the face of a constipated weasel and the voice of a goat being skinned alive?? Just a thought.

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My god he's right! the talentless cunt does indeed look like a weasel! its uncanny.

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"Money doesn't mean that much to me anyway"

then give your fucking album away you arsehole

If it isn't about the money, then why are you whining to a national newspaper

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hahahaha

dumbass

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You can see his point though, living out of hotels... if he had a permanent address we could track him down and go shit in his slippers.

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sod the war on terror. Where's the war on Clunt? Bomb the fucker out of his studio.

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James Blunt is a musical pioneer, the likes of which you philistines cannot appreciate. I would put him up there with the likes of Guthrie, Cash, Dylan, Cobain and Buckley. I love you James.

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a schooner is a sailboat, stupid head!

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Blunt is actually a record company forced name shortneing, he was born into the world as James Bland-Cunt.


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Do any of you people know this man you are calling a cunt? To those who do not know him; do you think you would call him a cunt to his face, given the opportunity?

quick-brown-fox - you say you saw him. You had a chance to speak to him and tell him what you think of him. Certainly, you seem to be most voiceferous on the matter now.

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Don't be daft, he was short & constipated weasel looking but he did have bulging army issue biceps. Who's going to mess with that? Also the threat of the royalty tank, Brilliant!!!

Get off your effing high horse.

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I am on no such horse. I am someone who has not met James Blunt and therefore have no opinon on his character. You have not met him - though had the chance to - yet have the gall to him a 'fucking gimp' and all these other names. You come onto a forum and say these things about a man that you would not dare say to his face.

You are a coward.

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ok so whats the fucking point in posting news items just to moan about them?

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he is of course all of the above bad things and more but I'd still let him in the back door

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Excuse me, in the back door, eh?!
Is that implying what i think it means...mmmmm can you let me in the back door too then?


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LEGEND

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'You're beautiful,you're beautiful,I saw your face in a crowded place and I don't know what to do' or some such bollocks.

Tosser. My heart bleeds.

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A 'tosser', is he, Aidan78?
You have met him, yes? Or are you also a coward? It is long established that James Blunt's lyrics are hackenyed, cliched and - by most accounts - garbage, but you know he is a 'tosser', do you?
You are safely esconsced in your home, maybe, many miles away from James Blunt. You are able to deride this man and you think that this is acceptable. If you have met the man, let us hear about it.
To all of you, you who decry this man because of his music, I say to you; think before you use such base, vile language. You have not met him, yet you call him 'cunt'. You log onto a message board and vent upon someone and think that this is somehow harmless, that you have a right to say these things. This man has parents and a family and friends who care about him as your friends and your family and parents care about you, yet you think you are able to say these things. I do not know this man yet if you were in front of me and said these things about him I would defend him.

Drowned In Sound; enough, please. If you wish to report the news, then report the news. If you wish to assasinate a man's character, then shame on you, but do not do so under the spurious banner of 'news'. From the tone of your piece, you seem to have a low opinion of The Sun newspaper, yet it is you who calls this man 'cunt'. Has he violently oppresed an ethnic minority or murdered a child? Has he dismembered a 14 year old girl and dumped her body in a ditch? Has he detonated a bomb on a bus full of school children? Has he enterered the home of an elderly man and cut his windpipe in order to secure a small some of money?
What, exactly, is it that this man has done to you?

Sean Adams, you have the authority to do something about this. Enough is enough. There are many bands whose music I loathe and despise, but that is where it ends. This has gone too far. It has gone too far. You people who think that this email is written by a crank, or that James Blunt is not worthy of defending. Imagine he were a member of your family and that, although he recorded music that you hated, he was still - of course - the person that you loved. You read this board and you saw him being torn to pieces, reduced to the level of a rapist, for I have never heard of someone being spoken of in such terms, other than those who have earned the contempt of society.

You should be ashamed, all of you who have written in such terms.

You are cowards.

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Actually, he is the face of all the major record company marketing departments trying to shove bland dullard drivel down the consumers’ throat. He should know his chosen place and that place is at the boot of music loving people. Imagine he was a soldier. Oh he was. A clean and noble profession in these days? Ask the civilians of Iraq. I'm sure he's got the balls to handle a little criticism over his chosen commercial career path.

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very heartfelt, that.
However, it does make you sound like a humourless, pompous twit.
Sorry. I'm sure you're lovely really.
Still.

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no hes not i saw him drowning puppies in the thames the other day evil bastard

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woud you let me know when the reader's digest version of that post is available? What was the gist?

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To Eastern_European_sex_tourist, james blunt is a cock, go suck it.

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You can bet your life if i met him i'd tell him what i thought about him. Unfortunately I can't afford a motorcyle or a hotel room to do that because I am truly skint not like that lying fuck with his boarding-school-at-seven-then-onto-Sandhurst background. The reason he says money doesn't matter is because he isn't ill with worry over where his next meal will come from. The reason he says money doesn't matter is because his family who sent him these places will protect him.

He has absolutely no right to say that he is "skint". That statement shows his absolute ignorance towards the majority of people (including many, if not most, of his fans) who will go out and spend their hard earned cash, people who really don't have the disposable income to waste, on his records. Many people who are justified in saying that they are skint.

DAMN STRAIGHT I'D TELL HIM WHAT I THINK.

(Now I might add here that this doesn't mean that he's a bad pe