tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post5127154363004846792..comments2024-03-29T10:17:18.826+00:00Comments on No Rock And Roll Fun: James Blunt's dad defends his posh sonSimon Hayes Budgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07084524317888577404noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-47176601572793834672011-01-31T07:59:59.192+00:002011-01-31T07:59:59.192+00:00Props to Simon and Carmody for pointing out the fa...Props to Simon and Carmody for pointing out the fallacies in the Blunts' complaints. They seem clueless about where class and race intersect. <br /><br />I can't wait to next hear the Hiltons complain that the public perception of Paris as _possibly_ having a leg up on the average joe due to her background, is "like racism".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-25311743920559512532011-01-31T00:34:06.761+00:002011-01-31T00:34:06.761+00:00Good for you Mr & Mrs Blount, I love James, It...Good for you Mr & Mrs Blount, I love James, It would be hard for me not to stick up for my kids too! Why do people have to be such haters!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10179921467034719352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-47267016446701613052011-01-30T19:48:16.245+00:002011-01-30T19:48:16.245+00:00I mean, I always judge people on their talent. Tr...I mean, I always judge people on their talent. Travis were from non-posh backgrounds in the most socialist part of the UK, and when they were inescapable I hated their fucking guts too. Wherever Blunt had come from, he would be hated, just as someone from as antithetical a background to his as Mick Hucknall was when *he* was inescapable. That he prefigured and made possible such a venal and regressive political movement just makes it even worse.Robin Carmodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05825645880870474801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-51285638640539267942011-01-30T19:44:45.136+00:002011-01-30T19:44:45.136+00:00Also he confuses dislike for Cameronite music with...Also he confuses dislike for Cameronite music with dislike for everything done by people from a certain background, just as Noel Gallagher confused dislike for his own Blairite music with dislike for everything done by people from his own background. Just as many of us disliked Oasis because we were *pro*-working-class and did not want to see an entire culture sold out to neoliberal politics, many of us dislike Blunt all the more because we like Gabriel-era Genesis.Robin Carmodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05825645880870474801noreply@blogger.com