James Arthur isn't everyone's cuppa.
But that's fine, right? Horses for courses. Live and let live.
But when the former talent show contestant turned semi-regular hit merchant decided to have a go at an entire generation of new artists, the internet flipped its wig.
Here's his opening gambit:
Artists these days literally just do impressions of stuff that’s gone before, no originality and kids act like it’s pioneering shit, really grinds my gears man I must be getting old.
— James Arthur (@JamesArthur23) November 9, 2019
That's… quite a reach, sir.
Twitter quickly went to town:
James ARTHUR at the big old age of 31 beefing 12 year olds and losing. pic.twitter.com/7K21jj5Kb9
— Reev (@TheReevHD) November 9, 2019
James Arthur has an owl tattoo on his neck because everyone who meets him keeps saying “who”
— ImAllexx (@ImAllexx) November 9, 2019
i have never seen a man rattled more from insults than James Arthur this evening, the poor blokes took more hard hitting lines tonight than he did in 2015 when cocaine ruined his music career
— Callum Markie (@callummarkie) November 9, 2019
/blockquote>At least James Blunt saw the funny side:
Lucky the world still has you and me pushing the musical boundaries. https://t.co/5s0BEYUzDM
— James Blunt (@JamesBlunt) November 9, 2019
So that's that:
Cheers James Arthur’s crying
— Randolph (@RandolphUK) November 10, 2019
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