|
| |
Joss Stone - Much Ado About Allen
4-Nov-2009
Written by: Robyn Chelsea-Seifert
Joss throws stones at fellow Brit over stand on filesharing and singing.
Oh no she di’int. Joss Stone has been meowing about Lily Allen to the UK Press Association projecting: “She is more of a personality than she is a singer. [Lily] needs to sell records because she's not a singer, and that's not an offense to her because I think that she knows that too.”
Stone has just released “Colour Me Free” her fourth studio album available exclusively at Target and iTunes in the States and claims in contrast she is “making real music [and] people [will] come to the show” unlike Allen where “it's about the track, their personality and their celebrity.”
Meanwhile Allen took to her website last month to blog and went on an absolute tear about everything from EMI layoffs to illegal filesharing and wrote, “I think music piracy is having a dangerous effect on British music, but some really rich and successful artists like Nick Mason from Pink Floyd and Ed O'Brien from Radiohead don't seem to think so. Last week in an article in the Times these guys from huge bands said file sharing music is fine. It probably is fine for them. They do sell-out arena tours and have the biggest Ferrari collections in the world. For new talent though, file sharing is a disaster as it's making it harder and harder for new acts to emerge.”
Even Matt Bellamy of the band Muse responds on her blog going as far as to suggest they meet with politician Lord Mandelson who would perhaps lend a sympathetic ear.
Stone just shakes her head and takes a more laid back approach.
“She's not going to win [the] fight. “None of us will win that fight. So let's just accept it and see it as something that can be beautiful and might change music for the better. It might sort the weeds from the flowers.”
One thing is certain: both singers have taken an unconventional route to stardom. Stone was plucked from the BBC show Star for a Night; the UK version of American Idol, whereas Allen chose the Myspace crowd to list her demos. But it’s fun to watch the young go at it as these young ladies do.
Allen has always been a very vocal creature, recently announcing her retirement from the music industry as well as proclaiming herself a “neo luddite.” Stone too has given the press much to chew on. Most recently questioning out loud the need for millionaire musicians.
“Who made this a rule? We don't need that much money. We only need enough to make music, eat and go on tour.”
Thus spoke the women with the $7.5 million EMI contract.
Talk to other readers about this story on our Facebook page.
|
|
|
|
|
