Hard News: Friday Music: The Story
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Sacha, in reply to
repeated fits of sulking
still being a twat
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Sacha, in reply to
not that Simon is saying that
and every song says how old he feels
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"chris", in reply to
Probably about as serious a rock band as Nickelback
Dude! Musical Godwin?
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Russell Brown, in reply to
And can he really have hated the EP but liked the album? Trolling for attention?
His original review slagged 'Royals' and 'Tennis Court'. His new one, two weeks later, says they're standouts and it's a shame the rest of the album isn't as strong. Confused? He certainly is.
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let's get physicsical...
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Love the line in " A World Alone"..
they're studying business, I study the floor
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And Royals hits number 1 on the US Billboard charts.
Whatever the reviews say, it clearly is popular. Grats to Lorde and everyone who helped make it happen.
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I don’t want to broadcast this on Twitter, but the Lorde story in the New Yorker is bloody amazing. Here’s a screenshot of the full text. Click to embiggen.
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It's Ken Loach as pop.
That's the kind of line you'd only get be having Sasha Frere-Jones write your album review. Brilliant.
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Jeremy Andrew, in reply to
That's the kind of line you'd only get be having Sasha Frere-Jones write your album review. Brilliant.
But I'm pretty sure that when Duffy sang the song, it was called "Warwick Avenue".
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Yes, bloody amazing. A little story: a somewhat ditzy friend of my daughter was heard complaining that the title of Lorde's album was promoting hard drugs.
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"chris", in reply to
It’s Ken Loach as pop.
Dizzee Rascal’s debut album ‘Boy in da Corner’, released in 2003 when he was just 17 has to date only sold about 58,000 units in the US, i.e. a number Pure Heroine surpassed in its first week. This got me wondering out how well Lorde has been received in the UK, Wikipedia isn’t giving up much, a chart position of 197 for the Tennis Court single and nothing else. Perhaps there has been some delay in release schedules or? I can’t find anything for Royals in the UK , despite its resounding success in numerous regions. It says:
The Tennis Court EP was released digitally in the UK on 7 June (due to the timezone difference) and physically on 22 June
But it got me wondering if perhaps a singer from the colonies, telling people how it isn’t, in the accent/ vernacular of another colony, might have difficulty tipping the relevance meter there;
Obviously someone may have access to better info on Lorde’s UK campaign, in which case I’m happy to be corrected…
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mark taslov, in reply to
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Yep, she's getting some traction here, but Mark's correct - 28th Oct.
in the accent/ vernacular of another colony
Yes, those singers from 'Davenport' sometimes have trouble making thmselves understood in interviews with UK journos who don't know how to Google.
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"chris", in reply to
Thanks for the correction there.
singers from ‘Davenport
Heh, clearly bearing no relation to an English district in Devon. Sorry if I wasn't clear; by another colony's accent I was referring to the "tripping in the bæthroom" US twang which permeates much of Lorde's work, as opposed to say what OMC did in How Bizarre.
The impending end play is looking all the more fascinating on the back of the UK media being already engaged prior to The Love Club EP bombing there. I'd imagine EMI/VIrgin will have upped their game sufficiently in the interim.
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