James Blunt’s YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL & possibly a ghost, a cultist, or a puppy. Premature vocalisation. Is life brilliant? What does ChatGPT AI think and can it write a better song? Posh Spice goes Gangsta!

The year was 2004. Mark Zuckerberg launches a little thing called The Facebook. NASA lands a rover (good boy!) on Mars. Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Iraq and does not do well. Construction on the tallest building (to date) begins in Dubai, so that Tom Cruise can ultimately shoot an action movie around it. A disgruntled resident of Granby, Colorado, modifies a bulldozer into an armoured war-machine and destroys thirteen buildings after being annoyed by red tape at the local council. Pixar's "The Incredibles" is released to cinemas (same director as the Tom Cruise movie mentioned a moment ago!). Millie Bobby Brown, future star of "Stranger Things" is born ... as is the single "YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL" from James Blunt's debut album!

To explore this, we enlist the help of ChatGPT by Open AI, and we discuss: Street-talk, gutter-language and filthy double-negatives; whiny-privileged-white-men - are they allowed to have feelings? Pure love and tainted love; The religious cult of James Blunt; How long is a plan good for? Leslie Nielsen comedies; Army traditions; the transcendent beauty of James, himself; high on drugs or status? La-la-land; the thrill of the chase; sacrifices of 'the chosen one'; Christ on an ice-berg versus Christ in the desert; Fortress of Solitude; smiling-angel-sandwich; desperate search for non-sleazy interpretations; drug-sniffing dogs; Shymalan's ' The Sixth Sense' but with dogs; "Milo and Otis" and reincarnation; Japanese suicide traditions; the misremembrances of ChatGPT; is ChatGPT a better song writer than James Blunt? Evil robotic voices; the early songs of ChatGPT which it will be very embarrassed by in the near future. ChatGPT steals compulsively from The Beatles; faces in sandwiches; who is Adam Shaw and how did he become an angel before death? German is the language of love? Sesame Street and Triangles with a smile on their face. ChatGPT sings (via its human slave, Dave ... Slavid for short?). The Yoda-connection. With thanks to tofu and booby-razzle mags hidden in the forest.

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