James Blunt reveals “You’re Beautiful” is about “Pursuing someone else’s girlfriend”

James Blunt Celebrates 20 years of “You’re beautiful.”

Marks the milestone on XBlunt expressed his gratitude at the stay of the hit song, which was released on May 30, 2005.

He wrote, “20 years ago today I released a song that bought me this house. Who thought a song about being high as a dragon on drugs and pursuing someone else’s girlfriend would reason quite so much? Thank you. You are beautiful.”

“You’re Beautiful” was the third single released from Blunt’s album, Back to BedlamFirst released in October 2004. It ended with meeting number one in ten countries in an explosive edition that made it one of this year’s songs.

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Blunt has never commented on who, especially the song is about, although there were rumors after the song’s release that it was about Dixie Chassay. Then chasay was best known as part of the casting team for Harry Potter & Prisoner in AzkabanLearning under the leadership of Casting Director Jina Jay. It was mentioned in one 2006 profile By Chasay that the song is about her, even though she has never commented on it directly.

The singer gave some insight into how the song was in an essay in 2020 for The custodian. “One day I was on the underground in London and saw an ex-girlfriend with his new boyfriend. Our eyes met, but we just walked past each other, and I went home and wrote the words to” You are beautiful “in two minutes,” he wrote.

“I went to see my songwriter friend Sacha Skarbek in Los Angeles, and with Amanda Ghost as a co -author, we stopped the song. It has always been portrayed as romantic, but it is actually a bit creeping up. It’s about a guy (me) who is high and stalking someone else’s girlfriend on Subway. But all of them would be wondering if I wonder if I wonder if I wonder I wonder ”

Blunt is reminiscent of playing the song on SXSW, the beginning of a huge change that came when Linda Perry expressed interest in signing him.

“The label asked me to remove the words” F —— High “from” You are beautiful, “he remembers.” I tried “especially loud”, especially high! “Eventually I sang” Flying High “on the radio editing but wanted the released version left as it was.”

Blunt added, “The song has a fake start. I sing” My life is brilliant “twice, which is my little joke, but I think in my excited state, from which composition I might have taken at that time, life was really brilliant. The tube really looked very colorful.”

When he looked back with the knowledge that it ran his career as a singer and songwriter, Blunt admitted, “I had no idea that the song would be such a big hit, and it scared me at first.”

“I thought I would just be musicians who put out music. The song (released in 2004) became so ubiquitous that it started annoying people, but I’m still proud of it and I love my job. I sang it on Elton John and David MöblerCivil ceremony and I am starting my sixth world tour. Without “you are beautiful” it would be a tour in northern London. “