CLEARLY A MAN UNAFRAID OF OVER-EXPOSURE

James Blunt isn't a stupid man, is he? (Play along with us here.) A stupid man might jump at the idea of licensing a song to six movies - especially if that song had been number one already for so long three council's citizenship ceremonies have started to use it as the national anthem, because most people have heard it come out of so many radios they assume that's what it must be? "If I sign all those deals" a smarter man might think, "people will move from being heartily sick of the song to being murderously annoyed by it, and I will have to go and live in South Dakota to avoid being attacked."

However, the smart man might then think "I'm not really going to have much of a long-term career anyway, what with having a rubbish singing voice and only being able to knock out doggrel. Perhaps it would be best if I signed the deals, took the money while I can, and then went to live in South Dakota anyway." And maybe that's why You're Beautiful is going to be heard in more cinema audiotoriums than the noise of popcorn being spilled on the floor.

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