Time to admit: James Blunt is Power

[ScreamingLadySutch]

Watching his new song 'Monsters' and SOBBING.

How it talks to men.

"Man...I'm a tough guy, or so I thought. I drive a big truck for a living and miss out on so many family things. My dad passed away 12 years ago and I miss him. I just now, for the first time, heard this song and am parked for the day...sitting in the sleeper berth with a soaked t-shirt from, uncontrollably, crying like a baby. I'm not ashamed though...I loved my dad. This song really hit home."

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When I had a cancer scare, over 10 years ago now, I had to have an MRI scan to see if it was anywhere else. The scanner is very noisy so you were allowed to take a CD in and they'd play it to you through the headphones. I took my James Blunt CD as that's all I had in the car and cried a bucketful when "Goodbye My Lover" played. That song now reminds me of how afraid I was and how I'd only just found happiness with my now dh and was facing the idea of having to leave him.

4 years ago, when my step-dad died, that song was played at his funeral along with "All the Flowers Turn to Face the Sun". I can't listen to that now without dissolving.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=YhRrkM9PFts

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I have lost a parent as a young teen and then my substitute parent more recently. I didn't feel like this at all - the bit 'I'm not your son you're not my father we're just two men saying goodbye' jars for me - couldn't be further from how I felt.
I sort of like it but there are other songs that say it better I think for me

My dad is still very much around (85!) so I am not keen on this saccharine nonsense.

It's not saccharine nonsense. How can something so personal and written from the heart be "nonsense"?

Never underestimate the bittersweet scenario where you have time to say goodbye.

I love him, always have. I like this song but 1973 is still my very favourite of his. He's really good on twitter too, and his tribute to Keith Flint on there was fab.

Oh for the love of god! That's shocking. How am I gonna do the school run now!
This is beautiful and he is excellent.

I love this man

Not keen on this song. Like his twitter heckling though - funny.

Taylor Swift 'soon you'll get better' has the same effect on me re mothers and daughters.

Beautiful song.

I still miss my lovely dad 10 years on and sometimes feels like yesterday.

Tears are healing.

My dad is still very much around (85!) so I am not keen on this saccharine nonsense.

You will be eating those words when the time comes. Nothing prepares you for the loss of a parent, nothing.

@brittabot then you're very lucky aren't you? What an idiotic comment to make. And as for 'he's usually funnier than this..' Err it's a song about his very unwell father who will die without a donor. How funny do you expect him to be?

Honestly. Some people are just plain idiots

@Willow2017 is absolutely right. Nothing can prepare you for how you are going to feel. This song is James Blunt talking about it. It's very personal to him. Some bits aren't me. Other bits are. But you can recognise the feeling if you have had it.
Recently I spent time with my cousins and a very sick senior relative. I could see in them, the forced cheerfulness, the stoicism, the grasping at comical moments and memories. All of which I felt with mum. And dad. Mostly, I could see the emotional exhaustion.
The only thing that has ever helped me is something I read about what the Queen Mother, of all people, apparently said: it doesn't get better but you get better at it.

@Ninkanink is right, there are streams of comments from men talking about their fathers and I took the comment from a truck driver (but was crying too hard to explain)

@Divebar ooh, tell us more! Was he nice?

The whole Blount family (his cousins, sister) are gobsmackingly good-looking, people. Like, even though they are a generation younger, turn your head to look again handsome (nodding acquaintance only)

His Twitter comebacks! I still remember the one that changed " realised he wasn't in fact rhyming slang, but humble and funny." @Skolkolet!

Twitter: "I would like to kick James Blunt"
JB: "Easy spelling mistake to make. K is next to L"

Took me a while, but

Thanks for the other song references everyone, never heard 'supermarket flowers'

"Easy TYPING mistake to make", grrr. Can't even get the punchline right!

@bellinisurge thank you for your kind words. He's been gone for over half my lifetime. My children never met him but he is in my thoughts most days and yesterday was particularly poignant.

I saw this on breakfast TV this morning and it made me feel sick. I hate this sort of thing designed to wring emotions and I like him as a personality.

A voice coach starting to analyse it and reaction

Oh God - snot central here chez Kurri - thanks ScreamingLadySutch - you owe me hanky.