Duffy hits back at Estelle

Alexz

Duffy: 'Skin Colour Doesn't Matter When It Comes To Soul Music'

Welsh songstress Duffy has hit back at claims made by Estelle that suggested the British music industry isn’t willing to market black soul singers.

Speaking to BBC Newsbeat, Duffy said that “if the talent and the desire is there, I don’t really think it matters what colour you are."

In an interview with the Guardian recently, Estelle, who is currently on top of the UK singles charts, said she couldn’t understand why there wasn’t “a single black person in the press singing soul.”

"Adele ain't soul. She sounds like she heard some Aretha [Franklin] records once and she's got a deeper voice - that don't mean she's soul," she continued.

"They keep trying to tell me in the media what soul music is and I'm like, we know what soul music is."

Duffy, whose debut album ‘Rockferry’ held the number one spot in the Album Charts until last Sunday, accused Estelle of not looking hard enough for black talent.

"We don’t live in the 1950s any more, we're in a multicultural country,” she said.

"So no, I think that’s pretty far from the truth, look around and I think you'll see that it [Black Soul] really does exist."

I totally agree with Miss Duffy.

Tightrope

Duffy >>>>>>>>>>>>> Estelle

Kworb

Estelle is a racist just like Kanye.

Go Duffy!

RainMan

Duffy

Estelle is talking tish. If Justin or Madonna complained about black artists doing pop music people would go ape ****.

Yahhh!

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Originally posted by Kworb

Estelle is a racist just like Kanye.

Go Duffy!

Why do you say they're racist?

Here's the article that Estelle's comments came from...

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Estelle attacks 'blindness to black talent'

Esther Addley and Alex Macpherson
Friday March 28, 2008
The Guardian

She is at number one in the singles charts and will shortly release what has been described as a must-have album, but the singer Estelle has hit out what she sees as blindness in the British media and music industry to black talent. In today's Film and Music, the 28-year-old, originally from west London, questions the promotion of an overwhelmingly white generation of young British singers, even those performing "black" soul music.

Singling out Adele and Duffy, who she knocked off the number one spot at the weekend, she says: "I'm not mad at them, but I'm wondering - how the hell is there not a single black person in the press singing soul? Adele ain't soul. She sounds like she heard some Aretha records once, and she's got a deeper voice - that don't mean she's soul. That don't mean nothing to me in the grand scheme of my life as a black person. As a songwriter, I get what they do. As a black person, I'm like: you're telling me this is my music? **** that!"

Estelle had a breakthrough hit in 2004 with 1980, a gritty, inventive and acclaimed account of her upbringing. "There is a fashion for YWFs - young white females," said Paul McKenzie, editor of the urban music magazine Touch. "They are the ones who are given the money and the time, and most importantly, people are patient with them. Duffy, if she hadn't had this hit, would have been given a second chance, and a third. Estelle wasn't. The people who hold the purse strings are looking at trends rather than talent. If you're not a young white female - in other words if you're black - I can imagine that is incredibly depressing."

Athens

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Originally posted by Kworb

Estelle is a racist just like Kanye.

Go Duffy!

Not that I agree with Estelle's comments, but maybe she has a different perspective from Duffy because of her race. How is anyone not in that position able to know everything about it?

If the general stereotype is that most soul singers are black, then I don't see how it's so impossible that the music industry would push more to market someone that's much more original. Business wise, it does add up.

But Estelle may have gone a too far by saying they don't want to market blacks period.

NorMal

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Originally posted by RainMan

Duffy

Estelle is talking tish. If Justin or Madonna complained about black artists doing pop music people would go ape ****.

Pop and Soul aren't as easily juxtaposed as you're trying to make them.

NorMal

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Originally posted by Athens

Not that I agree with Estelle's comments, but maybe she has a different perspective from Duffy because of her race. How is anyone not in that position able to know everything about it?

If the general stereotype is that most soul singers are black, then I don't see how it's so impossible that the music industry would push more to market someone that's much more original. Business wise, it does add up.

But Estelle may have gone a too far by saying they don't want to market blacks period.

Exactly

M Z N A

Estelle's comment sounds like something Kanye would say. Ignorant.

Brendon's Twin

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Originally posted by Tightrope

Duffy >>>>>>>>>>>>> Estelle

I was about to post the same LOL