Thursday, July 17, 2008

'You're Beautiful' by James Blunt

We're in the middle of watching Sesame Street right now, and I just saw the funniest thing... James Blunt performing a parody of his song 'You're Beautiful'. Some of the best parodies of songs are the ones artists create for Sesame Street- or maybe SS creates it and asks the original artists to perform them, I don't know which...
This one was so funny! And I think James Blunt was trying not to laugh, which made it even funnier. They did a parody called "My Triangle", sung with Telly. Telly's the big purple monster who loves triangles, and Blunt was singing about seeing a triangle in a crowded room and falling in love with it...

Here's the original lyrics:

You're Beautiful
My life is brilliant.
My love is pure.
I saw an angel.
Of that I'm sure.
She smiled at me on the subway.
She was with another man.
But I won't lose no sleep on that,'Cause I've got a plan.
CHORUS:
You're beautiful.
You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
I saw your face in a crowded place,
And I don't know what to do,
'Cause I'll never be with you.
Yeah, she caught my eye,
As we walked on by.
She could see from my face that I was,
Flying high,
And I don't think that I'll see her again,
But we shared a moment that will last till the end.
You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
I saw your face in a crowded place,
And I don't know what to do,
'Cause I'll never be with you.
CHORUS:
You're beautiful.
You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
There must be an angel with a smile on her face,
When she thought up that I should be with you.
But it's time to face the truth,
I will never be with you.

So the new lyrics went something like this:
My Triangle
My Triangle
My Triangle, it's true
3 Corners, and 3 Sides
With an hypotenuse

I wish I could remember all the lyrics! They were clever and backed up by this hysterical dream sequence of Blunt seeing a triangle across a crowded room and going to it...

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One of the other hysterical parodies on Sesame Street is a version of REM's 'Shiny Happy People'. They transformed it into 'Shiny Happy Monsters'... Pure silliness. The monsters were laughing hysterically, and then on the next verse 'Sad Monsters Crying', they'd be falling over themselves and each other wailing... Very fun. And REM looked like they were having a BLAST.

1 comment:

Valette said...

YouTube has James Blunt on Sesame Street. They even have the REM clip you mentioned.