Weighing in on Mercury Prize...
Thanks to the magic of Spotify I'm listening to Speech Debelle's album.
And some of the stuff is nakedly honest enough that I'm halfway impressed, touched even. But...
...it really isn't that impressive. Let's face it, her rhymes are cliched and her story is dime-a-dozen in this town.
And her voice is kinda irritating.
The production is interesting but a) it's not anything that's never been heard before and b) her producer didn't get the Mercury, she did.
To be fair, Florence and the Machine is just Kate Bush with a worse voice and the Klaxons are just goth via Shoreditch. But if either of them had won it would at least make some kind of sense.
*shrugs* If anyone was in any doubt after the Klaxons won in 2007 this kinda clinches it.
Even in Pop Circles, The Mercury Award is irrelevant.
-J
BTW: any of you remember those two albums John Frusciante made when he was so fucked up on heroin nobody expected him to live to see Christmas? I just realised this reminds me of that.
And some of the stuff is nakedly honest enough that I'm halfway impressed, touched even. But...
...it really isn't that impressive. Let's face it, her rhymes are cliched and her story is dime-a-dozen in this town.
And her voice is kinda irritating.
The production is interesting but a) it's not anything that's never been heard before and b) her producer didn't get the Mercury, she did.
To be fair, Florence and the Machine is just Kate Bush with a worse voice and the Klaxons are just goth via Shoreditch. But if either of them had won it would at least make some kind of sense.
*shrugs* If anyone was in any doubt after the Klaxons won in 2007 this kinda clinches it.
Even in Pop Circles, The Mercury Award is irrelevant.
-J
BTW: any of you remember those two albums John Frusciante made when he was so fucked up on heroin nobody expected him to live to see Christmas? I just realised this reminds me of that.