James Blunt – You’re Beautiful

“You’re Beautiful” – Single by James Blunt from the album Back to Bedlam, released on May 30, 2005. Recorded in 2003.

Blunt said on VH1’s The Vspot that he wrote this song about seeing his ex-girlfriend with a new man he didn’t know about on a train in the London underground. He says they shared a lifetime in their brief moment of eye contact. The words came to him all at once.

The girl that inspired this song is Dixie Chassay, who works in the casting department on films. Blunt mentions her in the thank you note on his first album.

This song reached #1 in its seventh week on the UK chart and after no less than four weeks in the Top 3, a rare feat in the UK where chart toppers usually go straight in at the top of the chart.

The music video for “You’re Beautiful” was directed by Sam Brown. At least one writer’s interpretation is that it shows Blunt taking his own life, perhaps following a Japanese tradition of removing one’s shoes and contents of clothing prior to jumping from a great height. However, the director of the video states in a “making-of” piece of footage that “the idea [of the video] is built around the last line, where he says, ‘I’ll never be with you’, and that idea of completely forgetting about something, of getting rid of that emotion, and moving on, and I think that the video is a sort of visual manifestation of that emotion.”

Blunt removes the upper portion of his clothing in a cold, bare, snowy setting and places all of his personal belongings on the ground. While doing this, seagulls circle overhead like buzzards. At the end of the video, he jumps off a cliff and falls into the water while he sings the lyrics: “But it’s time to face the truth, I will never be with you”. According to Blunt, he had to jump twice and suffered a split lip in the jumps. The video was filmed in Mallorca, Spain on 23 March 2005.

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