Just to make the same link come up 3 times a row on my friendslist

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Lex interviews Estelle - and the 'racist music industry' argument gets into the main news section too. IN YR BROADSHEETS SETTING YR AGENDA.

The opening bit of the interview reads - probably unintentionally - like classic Morleyan entrapment though: get Estelle to rant about how Adele ain't soul and she can't tell me what soul is, then ask Estelle what soul is and get staggeringly vague answer.

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

agh it's not meant to sound like an insane rant at all.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Alas it seems various dudes on the interweb have already picked up on Estelle 'dissing' Adele and have ignored any context or point she was trying to make :(

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

OH GOD I JUST NOTICED THEY CHANGED 'BREDREN' TO 'BRETHREN'!!!!!

[spazhammer.livejournal.com]

its made it to yahoo entertainment news (via ITN)

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20080328/ten-estelle-takes-a-swipe-at-british-sou-ea4616c.html

Black Britain v Black America: the numbers

[mcarratala.livejournal.com]

I know I've said it before, but I'll say it again: a large part of the relative power of black Americans in the US music industry is simply the weight of numbers. There are 37 million black Americans - over 12% of the population. Black Caribbean equals 1% of the UK population (and falling), Black African .8% (rising), and black/white mixed race about .6% (rising) – we're talking the broadest possible black population as about 1.4m people, and quite a lot of those will be trad black Africans with no built-in affinity with transatlantic black pop culture. Black American purchasing power sustains a (rubbish) TV network, plus the movie careers of the likes of Tyler Perry.