2004Released
3:33

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Interesting facts and trivia about You're Beautiful. By Songfacts®.

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.

This song is often heard as very romantic, but there's something a little unhinged about this subway encounter that leads him to near obsession and compels him to make "a plan." When Blunt did interviews to promote his 2017 album The Afterlove, he often talked about the real meaning of this song, and why it was concealed. "It's not the song that people think it is," he said in Time. "It's about this guy who's high as a kite stalking someone else's girlfriend - and should be locked up and put in prison. But people think, 'Ah, he's a sweet romantic.' If you think that's what romance is, then I think you're pretty weird." Blunt was marketed as a tender and sensitive balladeer, which skewed perception of the song. By 2017, he was ready to shed that image.

In a February edition of Radio Times, James Blunt responded to a question about the girl he sings about: "The girl in question is my ex-girlfriend and she's with her new man. I've always said that I haven't seen her since and then the press tried to find her. I'm not bothered enough to start acknowledging or denying whether they found her."

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of You're Beautiful.
CKey
MinorMode
4/4Time Signature
82BPM

Album

The album You're Beautiful is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released You're Beautiful.
Custard/Atlantic
© 2004 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
℗ 2004 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.

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