Posts by "chris"
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OK!
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Hard News: Friday Music: Outwards and Upwards, in reply to Sacha,
It’s fine to celebrate a creative young Kiwi.
And it’s fine not to Sacha. I’m far more partial to Lorde’s own appraisal of her work as her Art than to this sport; first whatever in whatever competition since whenever. That is far more reductive of her creative virtuosity, than critiquing her accent and elements of her content. From that post It’s almost as if she’s little more than a female dart to you Sacha, accruing bonuses and clocking up medallions. While her card is declined at Subway, and she's used to sell us chicken. Sure I sneer at that system, at her handlers, at that marketing team. I sneer as I eat the chicken she is being exploited to sell me. My respect for that is absolutely zero.
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With all that to account for I hope the winds blow in the right direction Simon, that's one hell of a burden for a 16 year old to carry.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Outwards and Upwards, in reply to Chris Waugh,
I think you may be over-analysing this.
That'd be about right ;)
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And if I have one at all, my point, I guess; our society highly esteems those masters of American vernacular pandering to the US, the well trained conducting magnificent press while selling God knows what to the Chinese, all in the name of authenticity. Our country, arguably has exactly the leaders it deserves.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Outwards and Upwards, in reply to Chris Waugh,
how many actually do make it big in music, or any other artform?
Hard to know, quite difficult to care too, Milli Vanilli made it big in music. My feeling here is that less rather than more press would possibly help with the authenticity drum she's banging. Whether someone comes across well or not in a newspaper, I don't know, John Key, absolute cockroach that he is, has come across marvellously at times, conversely this site's only Booker prize winner grabbed my attention with one response to another poster, namely:
"You are fucking stupid"
so it's neither here nor there for me. But it would be nice to know she was being fairly remunerated for her shillery, and that accent.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Outwards and Upwards, in reply to "chris",
if she can get the money from those videos on Youku, then I think she’ll be alright for taxi rides.
Sounds like a bit of an if there Chris, Post number 1 New Zealand record and yet, from the Huffington Post interview published just a couple of days back:
"My card got declined the other day when I was buying [food from] Subway. And I thought, I totally have to Instagram this
as you do
because I think people I have lots of money now or have this super cool life,"
I think the bit I liked best was:
It’s never really been my intention to “break a market” or whatever. My focus has been to make art –
…indeed, in a very authentic American accent. killing it.
it’s a new art form showing…and talk it up like yeah
Yeah! Majestic stuff. I can’t work out if it’s the ‘beauty queen’ americanisms or the fact that here we have 50 year olds tripping over themselves to laud Lorde but either way it smells of pizza. 26 RMB mini pizza, which isn’t a bad deal come to think of it.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Outwards and Upwards, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Sure, there’ll still be plenty of piracy, but China’s not a total black hole.
Well sure as long as she's helping to sell Pizzas or laptops or skin cream or yoghurt or something, there's definitely cash to be made by someone (thanks for the correction there Russell and Simon). but then ultimately she's been transformed into just another shill propped up by old men in suits. Her heartfelt message undermined from the get go by the very same who burnished her up to deliver it.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Outwards and Upwards, in reply to Chris Waugh,
As I understand it the big label music video is first and foremost a promo for music sales, in that context it would be pretty hard for Universal to convince Youku to pay Universal for promoting Universal's product. China is pretty much a black hole for digital content, it’d probably be more cost effective to save the price of the toll call.