James Blunt: You're Beautiful (2005 Music Video) User Reviews

beautiful

[Kirpianuscus · 18 February 2020]

A beautiful song, an inspired video, a story of love and trust. And James Blunt. The sound of late evenings and early mornings. So, just beautiful.

James Blunt: You're Beautiful

[studioAT · 10/10 · 12 April 2022]

If you're thinking of iconic songs and indeed iconic music videos of the 2000's then this surely has to appear on both lists.

Excellent stuff indeed.

Creepy Stalker Anthem

[jonsefcik · 2/10 · 24 February 2024]

I just thought about this song for the first time in like 15 years. Upon revisit, I now realize how bad, whiny, and creepy this song is. The basic lyrical premise is the protagonist sees his ex on a subway for like 3 seconds and obsesses over how she's moved on and he'll never be with her again. At best, it's a pathetic, whiny song sung by a guy with a whiny voice. At worst, it's a stalker anthem akin to "Every Breath You Take". The "I've got a plan" line at the end of the first verse makes me think he's either going to make her his again, or off himself.

Unfortunate implications of the song aside, the video itself isn't much better. The decision to keep the accidentally repeated first line in the video is strange to say the least. The video is shot in slow motion on James undressing then jumping in the ocean. Is this supposed to be the protagonist offing himself, or is it symbolic of leaping into the pits of depression or something? I don't know, nor do I really care to dig any deeper.

I've seen YouTube comments saying people had this played at their wedding. Why?! This does NOT sound like wedding song material at all! It's not romantic, it's at best pathetic and at worst creepy. Only reason I'm not giving it a 1 is the instrumentation is nice, if a bit basic.

Water Ghoul

[injury-65447 · 2/10 · 22 September 2020]

This video is so lazy and cringe. What did I expect really given this song is the epitome of braindead pop sentiment?

When James comes on screen he looks like a pale ghoul creature. The last thing I want is for him to start stripping but to my disgust he proceeds to do so. Completely unsexy and gross.