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  • Kyle Matthews,

    Yes! We can be a roving band of ranting poptimists!

    Love the uniform.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown, in reply to Craig Ranapia,

    Oh, for fuck’s sake – wouldn’t it be awesome if folks stopped defending Lorde against slut-shaming and sex-policing by pulling the same crap on Miley Cyrus? Here’s a radical idea: Both Lorde and Miley Cyrus get to exercise their agency as sentient adult women however the fuck they want. Don’t like it? Don’t look.

    Woah, there. There would be a massive difference between a 22 year-old woman doing that 'Wrecking Ball' video and a 16 year-old doing it. And, for all her composure, Lorde isn't legally an adult.

    I think Miley Cyrus’s risk with the ‘Wrecking Ball’ vid is likely not moral opprobrium, but ridicule like this . Because is is pretty ridic.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • Simon Grigg, in reply to Kyle Matthews,

    What’s the record number of album sales for a New Zealand artist?

    depends if you want to call Crowded House an NZ act, but the OMC album has done around 2m to date (with a remastered version out next year).

    Just another klong... • Since Nov 2006 • 3284 posts Report Reply

  • Steve Parks, in reply to Russell Brown,

    While I agree with all you’ve said, the man in question just seems to lap up criticism as if it was praise. There is no difference, when all you want is to put yourself in the frame.

    Yes, you’re probably right. But it actually made me angry.

    Oh well, this might help: Dog on the Tracks.

    [Sorry of it’s been linked already, I’ve just zipped through these comments. Got it from Gio Tiso’s Facebook feed.]

    Wellington • Since May 2007 • 1165 posts Report Reply

  • Hebe, in reply to Russell Brown,

    the super-cool Antoine de Caunes

    +1

    Christchurch • Since May 2011 • 2899 posts Report Reply

  • Matthew Littlewood, in reply to Danielle,

    I have decided that music critics obsessed with “realness” and “authenticity” are going to be first against the fucking wall when the revolution comes.

    I wouldn’t go that far, but a lot of my favourite pop music is more interesting because there is something “inauthentic” about it- whether it’s Joe Strummer, the son of a diplomat, and his reinvention as guttersnipe and rebel outsider, and the way his best music commented on those contradictions (e.g. “White Man in Hammersmith Palais”) or Bryan Ferry, son of a coalminer, reinventing himself as this weird, space-aged and slightly threatening European dandy for those astonishing early Roxy Music records.

    (Sorry that the first examples that sprung to mind were from the early 1970s- I could have mentioned all manner of rap or other pop in the last decade that seems just as contradictory in different ways).

    Where an artist comes from is often less important than what they evoke. It ain’t where you’re from, it’s where you’re at, as Rakim once rapped. Besides, contradictory performers are more fun to write about.

    Today, Tomorrow, Timaru • Since Jan 2007 • 449 posts Report Reply

  • nzlemming, in reply to Matthew Littlewood,

    Danielle wasn't talking about artists, but critics.

    Waikanae • Since Nov 2006 • 2937 posts Report Reply

  • Matthew Littlewood, in reply to nzlemming,

    Danielle wasn’t talking about artists, but critics.

    As was I, in a roundabout way! :-) Good critics should not be hung up about "authenticity", because all art is play, in a way. And "inauthentic" artists are more fun to write about.

    Indeed, Lorde is fun to write about precisely because of some of the disjunct.

    Today, Tomorrow, Timaru • Since Jan 2007 • 449 posts Report Reply

  • Danielle, in reply to Matthew Littlewood,

    Good critics should not be hung up about “authenticity”, because all art is play, in a way. And “inauthentic” artists are more fun to write about.

    Yes. Perfect.

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report Reply

  • Rich Lock, in reply to Megan Wegan,

    Was totes about to make a “Whatevs, The Beatles weren’t even that good” joke, but dude: Wrong room.

    Huh. I thought she was talking about Black Sabbath.

    back in the mother countr… • Since Feb 2007 • 2728 posts Report Reply

  • bob daktari,

    "Tickets for her debut London show – at Madame JoJo’s next Tuesday – sold out in just four minutes. Not that Ella seems overly fazed by any of this.

    “It’s a bit weird,” she shrugs down the phone. “[New Zealanders are] quite self-deprecating people in general. I was on this radio show and they were like, ‘You sold out your LA show, that’s amazing,’ and I was like, ‘Yeah, but the venue’s not very big!’”

    Read more at http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-radar/radar-band-of-the-week-lorde#UHw3kZwFDE4TOeWu.99

    That last comment gold!

    hat tip Peter MClennan

    auckland • Since Dec 2006 • 540 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha,

    Ukelele cover of Royals. Authenticity - you know it when you see it.

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

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