I’ve been listening to modern soul/blues a lot since I fall in love. I decided I was going to digress a little and check out the world music scene. Most of the artists I found are really crappy, they go for either the homoerotic Mika type high pitch ballads or the accidental gay themed ablums of James blunt. They remind me of Japanese geishas and Vai mating music.
Anyway, I am listening Paolo Nutini right now and I think this Scottish kid have some real potential. A little pubertal lyrically but he carries off his songs with an assurance you normally don’t see in a 19 year old, not the material confidence ala Britney spears and her ilk but a mental one. There’s a hint of conviction and really honest performance in him that he makes the oddly juvenile songs feel like good poems that you want to show off to your friends. Makes you think about how much of music is effected by the aesthetic aspect of it.
Nutini’s greatest strength I think is his voice, smooth, slow and lazily scratchy, perfect for a soul love song. This is not to say his music is all that bad either, I enjoyed the simple riff of “Jenny Don’t Be Hasty” and I would add “last request” to a mix cd for Mp without a second thought. He’s not the best obviously but one of the more listenable artist out there.
Click on the picture above to watch Paolo singing "jenny don't be hasty" from his album "These Streets"
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ZSa (i can't log in!)
Mika! Damnation! it must be to do with the music market. i think all this MTV and globalisation has broadened markets so anyone, i mean anyone, can get a recording contract. there will always be some1 ready to dish out money for the crappiest artists, provided it is marketed to them.
Scottish with a name like Paolo. mmmmm
umm,i'm ignoring whatever comment you just typed here because its so obvious to us when it might not be to others who think mika is some sort of french love god, and they might be compelled to spam my blog with their benign theories and hypothetical nonsense in the name of the net being liberal about forcing ideas down people's throats. god forbid i drag myself into the kind of mess you apperantly put yourself in when you decided to first give a shit about the jesus fanboys in your blog.
oyeah, and i especially love the the dud who quote and then psychoanalyse every word of your rant, mann that was sweetness. talk about knowing what part of a sentence is suppose to be ironic and what part is suppose to be metaphorical. you have a nice life ok alright.muahahahaha
shit! Vante, where were you when i needed your support against the jesus zealots? i was getting chewed up, but i guess ur right, i got what i deserved. that "dud" was illusionaire, i think you commented once on his blog a long time ago.
hey, u done with ur lil tour of south India? i thought u guys had THE BREAK UP or something cataclysmic?
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