"You're Beautiful by James Blunt, for instance, is infuriating: partly because it is actually quite a nice tune, but mainly because thanks to some indefinably smug aspect of his voice, every time you hear it you want to leap inside his larynx and kick your way out with barbed-wire boots on. Yet all would be forgiven, and it would become my favourite song of all time, if the final line revealed Blunt had been singing it to himself in a mirror while hanging a dog from a noose in his living room. Especially if there was a video to go with it."

full article
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,2127288,00.html

he's still got it.