2 B JAMIE BLUNT

I know Jame Blunt was last years biggest selling album in the UK and I hear his muzak seeping through over here now. Browsing in Borders with my skinny soy latte I hear him piped through the tinny sounding speakers. He is the male Dido. He is Dildo. Coffee table dross for the latte masses, a soundtrack to Gap commercials and car ads everywhere.

And then there's his lyrics;

"And I saw her face,
Across a crowded place,
And I don't know what to do."

Is a couplet (or should that be triplet?) that really stands out, but there are plenty other examples. It's the sort of trite that a love anguished 13 year old would be embarrased at putting down on paper, let alone record on an album as a professional. I'm sure it has an emotional directness but how many times have we hear those words rhymed? It's like a rapper singing 'just throw your hands in the air and wave them like you just dont care' or a blues singer singing 'woke up this morning'. Cliched, ridiculous but popular for many - unkown to me - reasons.