Hard News: Friday Music: History, motherfuckers
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Roger Lacey, in reply to
wanton character assassination.
The guy wrote some vile things in a review of a 16 year old female performer. He's being called a dick for doing so and rightly so. The reaction here strong because it is a forum where women feel free to express an opinion without being abused.
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Revealing interview with Ella (5min vid).
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Lilith __, in reply to
Revealing interview with Ella (5min vid).
Waiting for her cowboy hat! She's very collected and very charming.
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Story on 3rd Degree tonight on TV3, some time after 8.40pm. Six months of work apparently.
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Lorde scores the longest domination on Billboard's Nielsen BDS-based Alternative Songs chart by a woman (credited as a lead artist).
"Royals" leads the list for a sixth week, passing the five-week reign of Alanis Morissette's fellow U.S. breakthrough hit "You Oughta Know" in 1995.
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Weeks At No. 1, Title, Artist, Chart Date Reached No. 1
Six (to-date), "Royals," Lorde, Aug. 24, 2013
Five, "You Oughta Know," Alanis Morissette, July 22, 1995
Three, "Mother Mother," Tracy Bonham, June 8, 1996
Three, "Love and Anger," Kate Bush, Dec. 9, 1989
Two, "Ironic," Alanis Morissette, March 16, 1996
Two, "God," Tori Amos, March 19, 1994
One, "Hand in My Pocket," Alanis Morissette, Oct. 14, 1995
One, "Blood Makes Noise," Suzanne Vega, Oct. 10, 1992
One, "The Emperor's New Clothes," Sinead O'Connor, May 12, 1990
One, "Nothing Compares 2 U," Sinead O'Connor, March 31, 1990Enough limp bitching, perhaps?
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Rich Lock, in reply to
I think Aggressive Trendy Lefty Feminists don’t actually have paid work.
I assumed you were all secretly funded by some sort of Commie-Nazi slush fund. Zombie Stalin on the Moon, or something.
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B Jones, in reply to
Yeah, but the Commies and Nazis being 20th century guys, the pay's not that good. There's only one ghetto blaster for drowning out the boy music that we all secretly realise is the only good stuff and would just take over if we let it; and the Alanis cassette's starting to wear out.
Someone else can do the Ironic joke.
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This might be a good place to remind people of the very talented Flip Grater, who’s also overseas performing just now:
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Sweet! Are we doing this now? I saw Esther Stephens at the Wine Cellar last week. I love her.
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Sacha, in reply to
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Robyn Gallagher, in reply to
Under You is a brilliant pop song with the hookiest of choruses (though the video is a bit underwhelming). Esther Stephens is awesome! With all the discussion at the moment, you'd think the only popstars out there were Lorde and Miley Cyrus, but actually there's a whole lot of good stuff out there. David Dallas' new song Runnin' is another good 'un.
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I've enjoyed pretty much all I've heard from Hollie Fullbrook and Tiny Ruins. Currently touring with Calexico in Australia, after the New Zealand tour.
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Not exactly pop, but this guy has talent :)
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Sam Hayes' extended Lorde interview for 3rd Degree.
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Not exactly pop, but this guy has talent :)
Nice. Sending that to my partner.
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Sigh ...
John Drinnan covers the stoush, and gives a masterclass in missing the point.
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One for the No Shit files: "Reviewers should be able to say what they wanted."
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
gives a masterclass in missing the point.
I'm not sure he missed the point so much as quite deliberately gave the point the widest berth possible.
Sweetman's view was that it was being marketed and hyped as something it was not
Well, yes, and the real problem was with everything else he wrote, which I thought everybody made perfectly clear.
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Bart Janssen, in reply to
It's not clear to me why Mr Drinnan would feel the need to defend Mr Sweetman. I can't see the value in that position.
I'm pretty certain nobody has suggested Sweetman should not be "allowed" to post his opinions.
What many people have made clear though is that they found his review to be lacking in factual basis and containing personal and nasty attacks on someone who as far as any of us can tell has done nothing to deserve such attacks.
And perhaps most relavantly people pointed out there was no actual music reviewed in the review.
Where is Drinnan's value in stepping in on the side of the reviewer?
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Russell Brown, in reply to
He seems determined to wilfully mischaracterise the whole situation.
But my name is spelt right, so I'm calling that a win and leaving it there.
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Hmm. Perhaps the run of 'Royals' at number on one the US chart ain't over yet.
It's just dislodged 'Wrecking ball' at No.1 on the iTunes chart.
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Robyn Gallagher, in reply to
It's just dislodged 'Wrecking ball' at No.1 on the iTunes chart.
Did you see Lorde's toots about getting death threats from Miley fans*, outraged their their queen has been displaced by some pretender to the throne?
That's actually pretty amazing. It puts the whole Sweetman hooha into perspective. If you're successful enough to get death threats from Miley fans, who gives an eff what some sour music blogger in New Zealand thinks?
* BTW, this isn't anything specific to Miley Cyrus and her fans. If it was One Direction or Katy Perry or Lady Gaga, etc, who had been ousted, their fans would be the ones going mental over Lorde.
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BTW, "Royals" has been nominated for a Silver Scroll this year, but I really want to know is if the overseas success of the song will be enough to knock "Don't Dream It's Over" off its decade-long reign as APRA NZ's most performed work overseas. The last song to do that was "How Bizarre", for a few years in the late '90s. I suspect it might not be until 2004 that the "Royals" numbers will be enough to surpass Mr Finn's masterpiece, but the song's earlier success in Australia might do it this year.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Did you see Lorde’s toots about getting death threats from Miley fans*, outraged their their queen has been displaced by some pretender to the throne?
No, but I saw one Lana Del Rey tweeter who ventured that Lorde might have a point in what she said about Lana report that she was getting death threats.
It's clearly fairly rugged out there.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Did you see Lorde’s toots about getting death threats from Miley fans*, outraged their their queen has been displaced by some pretender to the throne?
#FirstWorldProblems
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