James Blunt has gotten a lot of grief for his kitschy songs (and even more, probably, for dating the likes of Petra Nemcova), and he’s had enough. The lad has stated he’ll hang up his guitar, for a price. In an interview with Uncut magazine, the popstar pledged: “If someone is prepared to pay me enough, I’ll stop.” Basically, Blunt doesn’t really understand all the hate directed his way, and wishes his detractors would just listen to someone else’s music. He tried to explain his position with a weird culinary metaphor that will probably show up in a song lyric about three months from now:

If someone puts some chocolate cake in front of you and you don’t like it, but there’s some cheesecake to the right, would you start screaming at the chef? Just eat the cheesecake without calling the chef the Antichrist.”

The Sun is trying to raise money to buy the precious gift of silence, but I’m not certain it’s really a worthy cause. Sure, Blunt is a bit of a cheeseball, but he’s not a completely awful person and there’s much worse music out there. To silence James Blunt I’d only contribute something of negligible value–as of this week, my retirement portfolio would be a good example. Now, shutting down 30 Seconds to Mars? That’s a cause worth donating serious money to. I’m talking Canadian money.