James Blunt savages Noel Gallagher as a “sad human” for saying unkind things about him behind his back
When James Blunt released his mainstream hit You’re Beautiful back in 2005, we’re sure he didn’t think it would earn him the title of “the most hated man in pop”. Nowadays, Mr. Blunt has become the industry’s unofficial punching bag, with artists like Oasis‘s Noel Gallagher even firing criticism his way.
Back in 2013, the Gallagher brother told Time Out Dubai that he sold his Ibiza villa to avoid being neighbours with the soft rock singer. He explained that Blunt didn’t necessarily do anything to “wind him up”, but “he just moved there… and I can’t have that.”
However, Blunt isn’t one to take negative comments lying down. In an episode of the High Performance podcast in October, Blunt fires back at the Oasis man, calling him a “sad human being”.
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“[Noel was] saying he can’t live in Ibiza because I live down the road,” he said. “Well, what a sad human being he is – because it’s a big enough island, you know? I’m not asking [him] to come and see me!”
Amid the comments, Blunt implied that Noel was being two-faced. “Noel Gallagher’s never said anything unkind to my face,” Blunt explained. “He just always does it to your back when he’s trying to flog music.”
He even managed to sneak in his own jab at Noel: “Weirdly, house prices went through the roof the moment he left! I don’t know whether the house prices went up because he’d left or because I’d arrived… But there’s gotta be some connection.”
While Noel has been making headlines recently in light of the Oasis reunion, Blunt has generated plenty of headlines about the guitarists’ two-faced behaviour over the years. On a 2023 episode of podcast Where There’s A Will There’s A Wake, he also explained: “I do actually bump into Noel at various places… to your face he’s a coward. [But in the papers] he said he couldn’t have me writing my shitty songs just down the road from him.”
Other musicians have also been quick to fire criticism in Blunt’s direction over the years. Elsewhere in his chat with High Performance, the singer even recalled being snubbed by Blur and Gorillaz star Damon Albarn during the Jools Holland Show.
“At the end of the show, they take a picture of all the musicians, and Damon Albarn refused to be in that photo because I was on the episode with him,’ Blunt said.
When asked if Albarn had said that directly to Blunt, the singer explained: “No, his management went and spoke to the producers of the show, and he’s a big deal, so they went along with that… which is bizarre, because they should’ve just told him not to be such a prick.”
“So I was then held back in my dressing room while all the musicians were lined up around Jools Holland for the photo with Damon,” he continued. “Then he was led out to his car and off he went home. I was brought out for the second photo, and only one of those makes the Wall of Fame… but it’s very petty stuff.”
When considering why musicians feel so comfortable criticising him, Blunt seems to be quite understanding. “It’s very easy… to fall for the trap when we’re trying to flog our own music, when someone says, ‘Which album don’t you like?’ or ‘Which musician don’t you like?’,” he explained. “We just fall for that.”
“It’s too easy for us to start saying, ‘I don’t like this person, I don’t like that person’ and we say whoever’s the easiest whipping boy or girl at the time… and I happen to be that person.”
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