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"You're Beautiful" illustrates the narcissism of love songs.
| flatulent vibrant therapy sandwich | 03/24/13 |
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Date: March 24th, 2013 12:19 AM Author: flatulent vibrant therapy sandwich Most people don't understand James Blunt's deep irony. In his hit single, "You're Beautiful", perhaps his most misunderstood song, he explodes the romantic myth. He picks the most vapid cliches to praise the beloved, while reserving for himself the choicest adjectives ("My life is brilliant. My love is pure.") and even supernatural agency (how many angels does this pinhead require?). "We shared a moment..." But notice that nothing's shared. Love is a fleeting, masturbatory moment, not an inspiration to eternal truth, as for Plato, Dante, and Petrarch.
Late capitalism has deprived us of our vocabulary for authentically expressing love. Even the guitar sounds tinny. But how do we know Blunt isn't just a shitty artist who can't write a song to save his worthless life? We can't. Therein lies his genius. |
Date: March 24th, 2013 12:37 AM Author: bossy pit his song and that other guys song is them singing "your so beautiful" to a fucking model
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Date: March 24th, 2013 12:38 AM Author: flatulent vibrant therapy sandwich What other guy? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2212665&forum_id=2#22870648) |
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Date: March 24th, 2013 1:09 AM Author: bossy pit Bruno Mars (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2212665&forum_id=2#22870808) |
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Date: March 24th, 2013 1:11 AM Author: flatulent vibrant therapy sandwich Bruno Mars is a hack. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2212665&forum_id=2#22870818) |
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Date: March 24th, 2013 1:17 AM Author: bossy pit "oh, i love you, your so beautiful JUST the way you are...i wuv you so MUCH!"
(bored, immpossibly beautiful model smiles, looks bored, files her nails, wonders when she gonna get paid) |
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Date: March 24th, 2013 12:40 AM Author: Black federal internal respiration locus all pop songs sung by men are some fag crooning about how much he loves a girl. was it always like this? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2212665&forum_id=2#22870653) |
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Date: March 24th, 2013 12:46 AM Author: flatulent vibrant therapy sandwich Of course. Blunt just calls attention to how narcissistic the whole exercise is. Most love songs indulge in lavish idealized portrayals of the beloved, exhaustively describing the imagined relationship ("Save the Best for Last" is a typical example). Blunt's homage to his woman is perfunctory, almost cold. It's all about him. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2212665&forum_id=2#22870689) |
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Date: March 24th, 2013 1:09 AM Author: Black federal internal respiration locus in the 90's you had lots of grunge and rap songs on top 40 radio that weren't about love. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2212665&forum_id=2#22870811) |
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Date: March 24th, 2013 1:10 AM Author: flatulent vibrant therapy sandwich There are plenty of songs that aren't about love. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2212665&forum_id=2#22870815) |
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Date: March 24th, 2013 12:55 AM Author: Opaque mildly autistic dog poop sanctuary do you enjoy those anniversary cards that focus on the ways your partner makes your life better (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2212665&forum_id=2#22870732) |
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Date: March 24th, 2013 1:02 AM Author: flatulent vibrant therapy sandwich No. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2212665&forum_id=2#22870766) |
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Date: March 24th, 2013 12:56 AM Author: submissive friendly grandma the industrial revolution ... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2212665&forum_id=2#22870738) |
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Date: March 24th, 2013 1:02 AM Author: flatulent vibrant therapy sandwich cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2212665&forum_id=2#22870767) |
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Date: March 24th, 2013 1:07 AM Author: Amber Half-breed go on... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2212665&forum_id=2#22870794) |
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Date: March 24th, 2013 6:23 AM Author: mind-boggling cuckold and its consequences... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2212665&forum_id=2#22871650) |
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Date: March 24th, 2013 5:31 AM Author: aphrodisiac famous landscape painting scho lar ship (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2212665&forum_id=2#22871613) |
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Date: March 24th, 2013 5:37 AM Author: Razzle-dazzle school (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2212665&forum_id=2#22871615) |
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Date: March 24th, 2013 5:44 AM Author: mewling electric stead partner The majority of "hit" radio songs have accomplished two things: 1. they make the singer out to be a winner(whether the songwriter is the singer, or whether the song happens to be sung by another artist than the person who wrote the song) i.e., hit songs never share anything that ends unhappily for the singer (narrator) UNLESS the lyrics ultimately draw some positive conclusion from the unhappy circumstance(s); and 2. most "hit" songs are actually scripts intricately designed to make women feel good about themselves; data show that 50% of commercially available music is bought by women, while most of the remaining purchases are made by men trying to influence/better understand women. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2212665&forum_id=2#22871624) |
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Date: March 26th, 2013 5:23 AM Author: flatulent vibrant therapy sandwich You're exactly right. James Blunt turns both these tropes on their heads. The singer's a winner because he was fucking high. The woman's beautiful, it's true, but the song stretches that out to the point of mockery. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2212665&forum_id=2#22882179) |
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Date: March 24th, 2013 6:13 AM Author: slippery claret hominid whorehouse wow, what an original, deep, controversial and noteworthy point about music!!!! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2212665&forum_id=2#22871644) |
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Date: March 26th, 2013 5:18 AM Author: flatulent vibrant therapy sandwich I didn't pay him, guys, I promise. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2212665&forum_id=2#22882176) |
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Date: March 24th, 2013 6:31 AM Author: big free-loading pistol state (Patrick Bateman) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2212665&forum_id=2#22871653) |
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Date: March 24th, 2013 7:35 AM Author: Stimulating plaza (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2212665&forum_id=2#22871689) |
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Date: March 26th, 2013 5:54 AM Author: bonkers glittery lay volcanic crater What do you think of the Weird Al parody, 'Your Pitiful'? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2212665&forum_id=2#22882192) |
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Date: March 26th, 2013 6:08 AM Author: flatulent vibrant therapy sandwich That parody always reminds me of this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5y3NQi_RAY |
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Date: March 26th, 2013 6:12 AM Author: bonkers glittery lay volcanic crater LOL (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2212665&forum_id=2#22882200) |
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Date: May 19th, 2013 5:23 AM Author: awkward fantasy-prone telephone (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2212665&forum_id=2#23228098) |