Since bursting on to the music scene, Blunt admits he has been blessed with incredible mentors who have steered him in the right direction. I think you should laugh at what you see online." "As a musician, I get to play to tens of thousands of people, and they seem to really enjoy it. If you're ever looking online, then just don't take it seriously. "If you're having a face to face conversation, people are just more civilised. It's not reflective of the real world," he says. "I think social media is such a harsh place, where people voice their opinions like they are fact and say incredibly mean things to everyone and everybody. In order to cope with any negative comments hurled at him, Blunt uses his witty sense of humour. He's not remotely phased by the negativity that exists online, and instead uses it as "fuel to write something stupid and offensive back." Using music as the greatest form of expression that I have."Īside from being a force in the music industry, Blunt has earned a reputation for silencing Twitter trolls who have unsuccessfully attempted to take him down. I'm just in the music for what it gives back to me, which is how it was when I first got into music.
I'm not pursuing any kind of validation from anyone else. On this one, I realised I don't want to chase the charts. "Everything after that has been a reaction to everything before. I was writing songs about my own experiences as a young man coming out of the army, trying to find my place in the world," he says. Once Upon a Mind marks Blunt's sixth album, which he describes as the "sixth attempt at the same thing." James Blunt in 2004. He adds: "I look terrible, but he looks incredible, and he's immortalised because we've got him on film." I took him upstairs, but headphones on him and pressed play. "Playing 'Monsters' to my father was the toughest, because I really wanted him to like it. (Instagram)īlunt recalls playing the track for his terminal father for the first time, and him "tapping his feet out of time." His failings are mine and the same, and that's why we love each other." James Blunt and his father Charles. "When I realised he didn't have many years left in this life, I realised I wanted to say some things to him - that he's not just my father, he's more than that. "We're British and like Aussie men, we have no need to discuss the strange subject of feelings. "'Monsters' is, for me, a really important song because I'm really close to my father, but I don't have a deep emotional conversation with him," Blunt says.
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