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simon silverdollar
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inspired by Bill Drummond's backlash against bob dylan in yesterday's Guardian, which musicians have you had a change of heart (for the worse) about, and why?
for me, the number 1 case is Peaches: used to quite like her (kind of interesting to have a punk, crude take on electro like that), but suddenly, about 3 years ago, i just thought; no, this is the worse music ever, there's absolutely nothing good about it. it's so pathetically stylized and half hearted it makes me cringe- she now comes across weirdly like a french and saunders skit.
another would be gang gang dance, who i liked before someone i know used the phrase 'earth mother wails' to describe the singer's vocals, and then it was all over; now i just see them as hippy bores playing the kind of dribbly rubbish with vaguely 'mystical' leanings that's everywhere you go in the greenfields at glastonbury at 11 in the morning. if they didn't come from new york but rather, say, brighton, i think they wouldn't be half as trendy.
also, there's a few musics that i now like but could see myself having a backlash against in the future; ariel pink (is it all surface and no substance?), say, or lindstrom-esque disco (bit coffee table ish innit?), but for now we're doing just fine.
for me, the number 1 case is Peaches: used to quite like her (kind of interesting to have a punk, crude take on electro like that), but suddenly, about 3 years ago, i just thought; no, this is the worse music ever, there's absolutely nothing good about it. it's so pathetically stylized and half hearted it makes me cringe- she now comes across weirdly like a french and saunders skit.
another would be gang gang dance, who i liked before someone i know used the phrase 'earth mother wails' to describe the singer's vocals, and then it was all over; now i just see them as hippy bores playing the kind of dribbly rubbish with vaguely 'mystical' leanings that's everywhere you go in the greenfields at glastonbury at 11 in the morning. if they didn't come from new york but rather, say, brighton, i think they wouldn't be half as trendy.
also, there's a few musics that i now like but could see myself having a backlash against in the future; ariel pink (is it all surface and no substance?), say, or lindstrom-esque disco (bit coffee table ish innit?), but for now we're doing just fine.