Loyal-yet-insistent English terrier mix James Blunt regrets that he's known for just one thing: Leaving "You're Beautiful" all over the carpet back in 2005 and rolling in it until it took years to get the smell out. Blunt told Hello! this week that he's very sorry and he hopes you can forgive him.

"There was one song that was force-fed down people's throats – You're Beautiful – and it became annoying," he admits. "And then people start to associate the artist with the same word," he said.

"I think, at the end of the day, I was marketed by a record company to appeal to women during Desperate Housewives commercials and you lose 50 per cent of the population in doing so."

Women are fine with annoying music, apparently, but the other "50 percent of the population" (men, I guess?) couldn't stand all those serious, forthright emotions being forced through their sensitive and discerning hearing-holes.

"The marketing also painted me out as an insanely serious person, an earnest person and, as all my friends know, I'm anything but," said the playful-but-protective shaggy puppy.

"I have a couple of over-emotional miserable songs that I'm known for, but I think it's turned that corner now. People can see I don't take myself that seriously."

Blunt's unserious, less-Desperate-Housewives new record, Moon Landing, is out now. The Guardian called it "Blunt at his Bluntest."

Aww, poor guy. It just makes you want to scratch him behind the ears.

[h/t Spin]