James Blunt has told how an American stalker sent him a 50-page document demanding royalties for ‘You’re Beautiful’, which she insists was written about her.
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Blunt released the track back in 2005 and went to #1 in 11 countries, cementing his superstar status seemingly overnight.
The song is about James seeing his ex-girlfriend on the subway with another man, and being heartbroken over it. Well this superfan/stalker is convinced the track is really about her, because she says James was stalking her on the New York subway back in 1984. Say what?!
James told The Sun:
It was quite scary. She’s pretty fervent that she’s the woman for me from the subway. She sent me a detailed 50-page document about how I’ve been stalking her, and that’s a little frightening.
And because she is such a fan, we have met at different stages, at various gigs or whatever.
James has effortlessly debunked the woman’s claim, by simply pointing out that he can’t have seen her on the train in 1984, because he was 10 years old back then and didn’t even visit the US until 2002.
Well that’s that then! Case closed.
It’s even funnier when you consider James Blunt’s own explanation behind the song, as he explained to the Huffington Post years back:
Everyone goes, ‘Ah, he’s so romantic. I want ‘You’re Beautiful’ as my wedding song.’ These people are fucked up. You get labelled with these things like, ‘Oh, James Blunt. Isn’t he just a soft romantic?’ Well, fuck that. No, I’m not. ‘You’re Beautiful’ is not this soft romantic fucking song. It’s about a guy who’s high as a fucking kite on drugs in the subway stalking someone else’s girlfriend when that guy is there in front of him, and he should be locked up or put in prison for being some kind of perv.
Just imagining some disheveled bum high on meth or whatever staring at a woman on the train and thinking “you’re beautiful and it’s such a shame we can’t be together”. Pretty sad and creepy for sure.
Could have been worse though – she could have sat next to the guy who had a 3-hour wank on the Megabus. Some people have no chill whatsoever.
