The singer comes to this groundbreaking realisation more than ten years after recording it.
'You're Beautiful', the third single taken from James Blunt's 2005 record 'Back To Bedlam' has, despite its initial charting success, garnered a reputation as perhaps THE most infuriatingly schmaltzy, saccharine piece of nonsense to have emerge from the UK music assembly line in god knows how long.
Now, after presumably having to perform the songs literally thousands of times, Blunt has come on board with the rest of us after announcing his ultimate realisation that the song, well, it's shite.
"There was one song that was force-fed down people's throats, 'You're Beautiful', and it became annoying", Blunt said in a recent chat with Hello magazine.
"And then people start to associate the artist with the same word", he continued. "I think, at the end of the day, I was marketed by a record company to appeal to women during Desperate Housewives commercials and you lose 50% of the population doing so.
"The marketing also painted me out as an insanely serious person, an earnest person and, as all my friends know, I'm anything but. I have a couple of over-emotional miserable songs that I'm known for, but I think it's turned that corner now. People can see I don't take myself that seriously."
And with that Blunt reminded everyone that the song was nominated for three Grammys, scooped up his series of other awards which he brought to show off and drove away in his golden Mercedes.*
*this last part probably isn't true.
