I can say that the hype around her has had its desired effect, even more so than I would have thought: she's become the highest debuting British female artist in American history.
Yeah. Her name was brought up at a PBS conference I attended. The speaker started talking about marketing strategies and brought up her name, then paused and said, "Well, if you haven't heard of her yet, you will soon."
When you're a current artist and PBS is talking about your music, you're usually either ubiquitous, or you appeal to the hoity-toity set.
my first post in this thread...drove the Donger into an each-one-teach-one smart-assed history lesson into the history of sampling. Read it, if you dare....
What's not to like.
well, for one, it doesnt sound like the vocals are integrated with the music very well...she just sounds like a neo-RnB singer singing over a produced track...not a singer singing with a live band...Im not feeling how it is put together.
I think his point was that it's ass backwards, and a terrific waste, to bring a great live band into a studio if you're going to make them sound like a loop.
She reminds me of Dido because, if not for her collab with a rapper I like, I would have no idea who she was or ever heard her music. I've never heard a Joss Stone song, either. This kind of schitt is like S Club 7 for diggers.
I'd just wanted to add, to who ever said about Miss Winehouse needing to play more dates with a live band, that she's been sing live and touring for many years now, so you would've thought she would have some skill by now. (not that I'm saying she's great tho.) But if you listern to M Ronson's other recent productions, like his Radiohead cover and his new solo lp, there's a similar sound.
Winehouse's nothing new over this side of the Atlantic, so its hard to understand all the excitment. But whoever does the promotion for the 'white girls sing black music' (see Stone, Winehouse Sovereign) when they cross over to America is pretty good at their job.
Winehouse's nothing new over this side of the Atlantic, so its hard to understand all the excitment. But whoever does the promotion for the 'white girls sing black music' (see Stone, Winehouse Sovereign) when they cross over to America is pretty good at their job.
now this is a more thread-worthy strut race topic!
Do 'white girls sing black music' acts get more hype in the US than in the UK? If so how/why?
Winehouse's nothing new over this side of the Atlantic, so its hard to understand all the excitment. But whoever does the promotion for the 'white girls sing black music' (see Stone, Winehouse Sovereign) when they cross over to America is pretty good at their job.
now this is a more thread-worthy strut race topic!
Do 'white girls sing black music' acts get more hype in the US than in the UK? If so how/why?
They get hype over here too, although maybe not in the same way. We don't have the strong, black r&b scene that the US does. But it is strange that the artists that have made it across 'the pond' in recent years fit the description. Like some reverse Elvis type shit.
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Yeah. Her name was brought up at a PBS conference I attended. The speaker started talking about marketing strategies and brought up her name, then paused and said, "Well, if you haven't heard of her yet, you will soon."
When you're a current artist and PBS is talking about your music, you're usually either ubiquitous, or you appeal to the hoity-toity set.
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Holy shit. Dude, that's going into a few emails around the office, and I guarantee it'll spread like wild
Of course, I may eventually catch shit from the Masterpiece Theatre folks. Not much of a sense of humor with them.
Right?
But at least Ms. Katherine-Whalen-meets-Divine has Meth Edge. THAT oughtta learn those parents.
mega
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You just broke lurking Questlove's little heart.
Winehouse's nothing new over this side of the Atlantic, so its hard to understand all the excitment. But whoever does the promotion for the 'white girls sing black music' (see Stone, Winehouse Sovereign) when they cross over to America is pretty good at their job.
now this is a more thread-worthy strut race topic!
Do 'white girls sing black music' acts get more hype in the US than in the UK? If so how/why?
They get hype over here too, although maybe not in the same way.
We don't have the strong, black r&b scene that the US does. But it is strange that the artists that have made it across 'the pond' in recent years fit the description. Like some reverse Elvis type shit.
them jewish beeyaches are crazy...
they will cut you and take your credit card
b/w