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So let us listen to the new No1 to decide whether our industry is moving in the right direction.
Leave aside my personal irritation against this formula (girly chorus kerchang male preferably black rapper kerchang) and my bias against slick professional videos (oh God Duran you really started this decline from oral and aural to visual) and my annoyance at the pathetic male habit of concentrating on the Page 3 effect (female must have great legs and lots of exposed flesh; nice makeup; cute features) and the radio programmer weakness of STILL formatting from charts - it's not bad but it's not great and let's face it, this is simply the latest bimbo in the desperate Amy/Duffy/Aguilera/GaGa parade of "work with wimmin it's easier" laziness disease which afflicts every single executive in this dying industry, innit?
Re:Current No1...DON'T HATE THE PLAYER HATE THE GAME 14 Years, 4 Months ago
JK Although i may agree with your observations on the failings of the industry with this artist your observations are wrong. Obviously you have never seen the force of nature she is in a live setting.Jessie J is a unique talent and to judge her by the failing of the current outdated business model labels and stations cling to is unfair.
She single handedly navigated the shark infested waters of the business and came out on top with very little guidance apart from her publisher.The women is a star simple and plain.
As a consultant and driving force for 10cc,Genesis,Chumbawamba,Baha Men and also (via Bocu music) an affiliation with Great pop Im surprised you did not listen to the artist first,it would be very upsetting if you had actually started to lose touch.
Is the same man who convinced Griffith to keep Cowell really in a position to put down an artist that even Cowell agrees publicly and privately is special.
I agree with everything you say - except I quite like the track, and I heard her being interviewd on Steve Wright's Radio 2 show last friday, and she came across as a very bright young person. When you metion Amy, I assume you meam Amy Winehouse, as opposed to Amy Macdonald, who's biggest hit is back in the charts four years after it originally charted. I think it's being featured on a TV ad. Amy Macdonald is, in my opinion, one of the best singer/songwiters of recent years, but totally underated in the UK - but huge in Germany and Europe.
Yes I did mean Amy (Granny) W - who made some great tracks but became a caricature - and my comments should really refer to this hit and the marketing thereof rather than to the lady herself.
Having just re-read all the posts in this thread, I'm not sure there is anything wrong with the music that's currently being produced. There has always been good songs and not so good songs, and, over time, some of every quality have become hits. It just seens that the way hits were made in the past no longer works today, and nobody has yet found a way to create future super-stars, or even block-buster one hit smashes. Or, if, arguably we do create one or two, we just aren't creating enough.
From much asking around nobody seems to think it's a cover though many comment on the same old chords (I have no problem with them).
Apparently a Jason Flom signing - no surprise there - the video is SOOOOO aimed at the American market.
Plastic, predictable, formula, manufactured - much like poor Justin Bieber. Who, like Jessie, seems to have basic talent suffocated by the image makers.
US rule - never let the artistes be themselves (we would never have had Dylan if this rule had existed in the 60s).
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