Try to contain your excitement. The first single off James Blunt's upcoming album, All The Lost Souls, has leaked to the Internet.
The song is called "1973." I've only listened to it once, so I still need to hear it 43 million more times before I can compare it to "You're Beautiful." But I think it's safe to say that this is better. It has to be, right?
Now here's the deal: The song is going to be on the radio every 10 minutes. It's going to be on TV. It's going to be at the gym, at the supermarket, at the baseball game, on the loudspeaker at Wendy's, at your dentist's office, at the laundromat, and anywhere else where music is capable of being played. And it's going to get really, really annoying. This is a guarantee.
You have two options:
1) Hate the song, and be tortured everywhere you go for the next 6 months.
2) Try to embrace the song, and save yourself from months of heartache (and headaches).
As a society, we let "You're Beautiful" overwhelm us, and that's why it took such a devastating toll on our collective psyche. We need to make a change and go with option #2. I'm not saying this is going to be easy. It's going to be tough... damn tough. But we need to find a reason to enjoy this song. Perhaps we can find some comic value within the lyrics. Perhaps someone can come up with a funny impression and make this song enjoyable, like Dave Chapelle did with that Lil John song. Maybe someone can do a stupid dance to the song, put it on YouTube, and we can all think of said dance and laugh. There's comedy buried somewhere within this song, I know it. Think, people. The very fabric of our existence depends on it.
When you have a puppy, you have to train it not to go to the bathroom in the house. If you don't enforce this at an early age, you'll be stuck with a carpet-wetting dog forever. Right now, this song is still a puppy. Let's give it a swift kick to the ribcage before it pisses all over our house.
Listen to James Blunt's "1973" here, if you dare.
