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Originally posted by Playboy
Cro-Magnon.... I'm enjoying this conversation. Yeah I forgot all about the British Invasion but they've all released like one album and were huge. I would have to see them actually sustaining a career here in the states before I agree. All of them had one huge song and the rest flops. Leona has to come with something to sale and grab our attention again if she want to really make a mark.
I'll have to disagree about Kelly Clarkson, I liked how All I Ever Wanted represented all the styles from each album she put out. She even gave us something new with Whyyawannabringmedown. I think there isn't alot of interest because she isn't a media ***** and there's no TRL-like show to help put her out there. Maybe wrong single choices as well. P!nk to me is complacent.... Funhouse sounds like everything else she's done. Lyrically, its great but the music sounds safe and typical her. She had to create a gimmick with her supposedly leaving her husband to help generate sales for the album. She's supposedly back with him and the album hasn't been out a year yet.  So we'll have to agree to disagree on that. Huge fan of both.
I agree with your other points though which was very well stated.  |
You've got a point about most one the UK girls being one-hit/one album wonders. I'll be really interested to see if Amy Winehouse can replicate the success of Back To Black in America....when she comes off the crackpipe, that is
I totally forgot about Pink and her "fake break-up" gimmick. Now I have to agree with you, she's using gimmicks to stay in the limelight.
The whole "seperation" with her husband smelled so phony from the start, that I'm surprised she hasn't caught more flack for it. Pink is one of those commercial sell-outs who wants to be looked at as an "artist". But she needs stuff to write about. If she's got a happy marriage and homelife, then there's not much material for hell to sell to her fans. So she concocts this angsty "break-up" with her husband, so she can have songs like "So What" (in which the husband still appears in the video) and "Please Don't Leave Me"....and fans do really feel she's talking about her current problems. The whole thing with her husband felt made up to give her album a "personal" concept.
I like Pink, but damn, she is cynical.
As an aside, I just watched a video of Keyshia Cole and Monica performing their song "Trust" live. You were right....Cole is not much of a singer. When Monica came out and did her bit after Keyshia, it was like going from a Cheeseburger at McDonalds to Gourmet Steak a 5 star restaurant. Monica made Keyshia look really wack.
@ all the novels, articles & books in this thread.
lowest week opener and aint going to sell too much by looks of it.