stelfox said:i hate the level of hate the monkeys get.
i'm convinced it's 95% born of snobbery because they're popular.
gumdrops said:people think the monkeys wont win cos theyre already so popular but that didnt stop franz ferdinand. and out of that list, the monkeys are - for better or worse - the most exciting thing on there. plus you know, theyre inspired by rappers and like to make their music 'foonkay' and everything so it would be like a uk hip hop win if they take the award home...
gek-opel said:an incoherent middlebrow affair judging completely unrelated stuff against each other, and taking a seemingly random result as its conclusion?
swears said:Since Oasis, forming an indie band has been the least subversive or even interesting thing you could possibly do as a musician.
jaxxalude said:WHAT IS THIS?!
gek-opel said:This demonstrates one thing, which I am sure we will all be very aware of by now, that the broadsheet coverage of pop music is one of the worst things to happen to music journalism since, well, ever. The poisonously middlebrow, consumer friendly agenda they peddle is now the consensus view, propped up with bloated ex-radical NME hacks and hackettes cashing in on reputations they earned when they were in short trousers by writing some of the most staggeringly banal prose on the planet, and lacking any sense of a "project" or ongoing agenda, any sense of willful perversity etc etc. I'm sure this has had a large part in the reduction in vitality of dedicated music magazines, and a lowering of critical expectations almost always leads to a lowering in the quality of product...
gek-opel said:Yeah blame bloody Julie Burchill and Toby Young for it... it was the "Modern Review" wot done it... Nick Hornby and all....
gek-opel said:[OTM MMS...] .... however always appear to champion things that are about to have massive marketing budgets spent on them, thereby ensuring your continued "relevance" as "predictor" of future trends.... see Miranda Sawyer's repulsive and credulous puff piece on Lily Allen in OMM 2 months ago... quote:
"Last month I used my column in this magazine to bemoan today's lack of proper pop stars, the ones who talk the talk as well as walk the tight-trousered walk, who know that the music's only part of the job and personality's the rest. Anyway, just days later, the editor called me up, all excited, and said, 'I think I've found you one!'. Lily Allen was his answer to my rant, recommended to him by an OMM work-experience girl who had found her MySpace site. Lily had put up four of her chirpy pop-ska songs, and, within weeks, they'd spread like internet flu. She now has a staggering 24,932 friends on her page, Parlophone has rush-released her first single, 'LDN', and the limited edition seven-inch is reselling for £40 on eBay. Lily is a genuine, no PR, punters-love-it success, which is fantastic, but, even more promisingly, her blog is hilarious..."
Please just kill me now...
Paul Hotflush said:UK Urban music is shit, that's why it doesn't get many fine moments.
fseq said:this is probably the most sensible and accurate comment i've read on an internet music forum in the past six months.
Originally Posted by Paul Hotflush
UK Urban music is shit, that's why it doesn't get many fine moments.