A Year In Pop: 26

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Whoa-oh, we're halfway there! And here's Bon Jovi to mark the occasion.

Expect a special halfway report later this week or start of next.

[Poll #1013930]

Meanwhile - Kate Nash???? Srsly???

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Does the accent not remind you of the "am I bovvered?" girl? It's exactly the accent middle class people put on when they want to ridicule 'chavs'. I have no idea what Nash's actual intention is when she goes all mockney but it makes it pretty much unlistenable. And there's not even any ATTEMPT to be funny! Like...the Streets and Lily Allen go all out for jokes, and mostly fail, but Nash is just spelling a situation out in really tedious detail as if we are schoolchildren.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The accent didn't bother me so much as the banality. It's like a yoghurt LJ post!

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

I suppose I just presumed she really talked that way - does she not? Loads of great singers (into whose company I am emphatically not inducting K. Nash on the strength of one quite good record) sing with accents, and I certainly can't detect any mockery of the working class in there.

There's not always room for funny, but better songwriters usually find room for wit even in sad situations - Billy Bragg's Levi Stubbs Tears is probably a good comparison. All I can say is that on the strength of one listen, I liked it and was not annoyed! Let's give it a week in my head and see if there's a change...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Surely she doesn't talk like that! I've never heard ANYONE talk like that except as a jokey put-on accent. I will make enquiries though.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

do we know if fergie talks like that too?

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

That's a good point... Does it matter? Is it alright to put on a voice when singing eg the Bedingfields? Is there a difference between feigning Cockney for effect and feigning mid-Atlantic blandness to eliminate it?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

As I've said, Fergie's mangled enunciation heightens the emotion of the song for me. How does Nash's mockney accent serve her song at all?

(and it IS put on, I have had confirmation now from someone who's spoken to her)