James Blunt on Sesame Street

Sesame Street has officially been infiltrated by James Blunt.

On a recent episode of Sesame Street, the singer-songwriter transformed his tragically-awful hit single, ‘You’re Beautiful,’ into an ode to the apparently beloved geometric shape, the triangle.

Blunt explains that he’s ‘lost something very important to him and he needs to find it,’ but he can’t talk about, he can only sing about it. Right.

An extremely long and awkward instrumental introduction follows, which involves a lot of swaying by both Blunt and the red puppet character named Telly (who, according to his Sesame Street bio, doesn’t like circles or squares).

Blunt’s cracking voice starts singing:

‘This shape was brilliant, this shape was pure, I saw the angles, of that I’m sure.’

With lyrics like these, this song is shaping up to be nearly as good as the original.

After some more strained verses and very painful choruses of ‘A triangle, my triangle, oh triangle, it’s true,’ the scene breaks away from Blunt and Telly and turns to some kind of bad acid trip dream with dancing Sesame Street characters, floating triangles and a disco ball.

Blunt soldiers on with the parody, but then Telly joins in with his beautiful baritone voice, and their voices together may just be the single-worst thing ever put to music.

Though one has to wonder if Blunt is making more money selling records or doing a Sesame Street guest spot. It’s probably close.

-Erinn Connor, asst. feature editor

Published on September 19, 2007 at 12:00 pm