Oh, who gives a fuck.
I never understood Joss Stone but she was phenomenally successful - really amazingly so - which led to this trickle-down effect. I wouldn't put Leona Lewis in with that lot, she really is one of those girls with a great voice on the back of a bus, good luck to her.
That Amy Winehouse album is a genuine Thriller type phenomenon, every country I've been to in the last year, she's being belted out of shops and restaurants globally on some crazy scale, and still, and deservedly - her lyrics are amazing. It just kind of follows that after that there's going to be a flood of music in similar style that is seen as something that commercial and retail properties can be marketed to.
On a zeitgeist level you've had (over here at least) so much guff about 1968 in the press and book media that it feels, on some sort of level, like a liberal attempt to recreate the vibe of around that time, almost sympathetic magic; people who were affected then would be in positions of power I guess. I'd put alot of it down to left-wing nostalgia, as well as music that appeals to people who still buy CDs, who would again be people in that age bracket.
your particular brand of patriotism is incredibly bizarre nomad.
presumably they think that because currently you guys are lapping it up.
That's interesting but did you see what George Michael said recently about how he thought the media circus around people like himself was a useful diversion from other stuff that should really be more prominently in the news? It's obvious I know but I still think it's more useful for someone in a celebrity role to point something like that out than to simply act up in public, that doesn't really say much of substance at all. I mean those people can react however they like but it's still just turned around as cheap entertainment. They are quite lidderally making Spectacle's of themselves no?Yeah, I think also that both her and Doherty represent a particular form of culture in the UK at the moment, which is complete lawlessness in the face of, well, 1984 really. They're the public face (grime the less public) but it's a very real resentment that people are displaying. We haven't really had pop kids in and out of jail since Boy George and the Blitz kids in their heyday.