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James Blunt Was Also Annoyed By 'You're Beautiful'

10/21/2014
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(Radio.com) How long did it take you to get sick of hearing the James Blunt monster 2005 hit, "You're Beautiful"? 100 times? 1000? Well, a lot of us got sick of it eventually, and it turns out that includes the artist that created the song, Mr. Blunt himself.

"[It] was force-fed down people's throats," Blunt said to Hello Magazine (via Spin), "and it became annoying, and then people start to associate the artist with the same word."

Such is the plight of many artists with one massive, inescapable hit. It is just rare that the artist joins the throngs of people bemoaning a track as being played out. Blunt aimed to change the perception of him on his latest album, 2013's Moon Landing. Whether he was successful is debatable.

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