Singer James Blunt calls 'You're Beautiful' annoying

But Blunt, a former soldier who served with NATO in Kosovo, has admitted there was a flipside to having such a massive global hit.
"There was one song that was force-fed down people's throats, 'You're Beautiful', and it became annoying, and then people start to associate the artist with the same word," Blunt said in an interview in the latest edition of Hello! magazine, to be published on Monday.
The song tells the story of Blunt's surprise at seeing an ex-girlfriend on the London Underground with another man.
The 40-year-old musician added that, because of the success of the track, his music had been marketed to women -- and he had therefore lost out on male fans.
"The marketing also painted me out as an insanely serious person, an earnest person and, as all my friends know, I'm anything but," Blunt said.
"I have a couple of over-emotional miserable songs that I'm known for, but I think it's turned that corner now."
The album that contained the song, "Back to Bedlam", was the most-sold in the United Kingdom in the 2000s and went platinum all over the world.
Several versions of 'You're Beautiful' have been released, the latest being a remixed version in Japan in 2012.
Blunt also sang a different version of the song, "My Triangle", when he appeared on the children's television programme Sesame Street.
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