Current mood: BRUCEY
Category: BRUCEY Music
Like our friends WaKs, America is an easy target on which we can all vent our fury and frustration at the world and our very own shitty lives. But whereas WaKS are just funny jumped up kids, the US is the top cheese dog, and Americans are therefore rightly reviled and hated throughout the world for all manner of real and imaginary reasons...
But I love America and Americans more and more as the days go by..
Yes boss, for all their idiotastic cat surgery and self centered politics, the land of the free has made an enormous cultural contribution to my own archive and that of the world that is too easily and OFTEN forgotten...
And that the rest of the world see America as being a land populated by thick and noncey numpties is one the main reasons why America is still so fucking dominant...
One of the things I like most about the US, is that for all their own bullshit, they posess their own exceptional musical bullshit detectors.
In particular, America has a very exacting eye when it comes to evaluating UK musical imports and the real quality of UK musical talent...
Yes boss, not only have our American friends sniggerred at EMIs attempts to offload Robbie Williams on them, they've also completely laughed in the face of Quoasis and for both these acts they should be very, very proud....
Now Some Might Say the reason these acts have missed on American success is because the marketing logistics of a foreign act cracking America are too big. That Americans are xenophobic, that they produce enough of their own crap, so as to not need to import any from elsewhere etc, etc..
But The KLF got to number 4 in the US singles chart with a record called America: What Time Is Love? without doing any serious US publicity jaunt...
And Amy Winehouse has recently entered at number seven in the USA in the process becoming the highest debut entry for an album by a British female solo artist
However, that Joss Stone bettered this and reached number 2 only weeks later with her debut 'Introducing Joss Stone' just goes to show that making up rules with which to judge the musical world by, on a Wednesday morning before breakfast, is never a very simple or a sensible thing to be doing....
 | Currently listening :
Six White Russians & A Pink Pussycat
By Room Eleven
Release date: By 20 March, 2007 |
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