Have mercy on me Marketing Machine! Duffy's handlers makes her presence known.It's probably no surprise that Mr Mike likes him some music and music videos and one of the "Next Big Things" in that field right now is Duffy. Duffy is a British Blue Eyed Soul singer (sound familiar?) who sings in a kind of retro R&B style (more familiar?) but doesn't look like a smack addicted alley cat. Instead, she looks like a pale lipped blonde whose idea of a wild time would be figuring out which upscale apartment in London she would like to live in (Piccadilly or Soho? Decisions, Decisions). To music execs who are looking for more Amy Winehouse money from someone not whacked out of their mind, Duffy is the answer to their prayers. Which would explain why she is being force fed down the media's throat. She's come out of nowhere to be the Artist of the Month and/or the You Oughta Know Artist at VH1 and has received rave review ratings (four stars at most places) for her CD Rockferry at most media outlets. This type of hype is a little off putting to me, she is so prepackaged it's hard to know how good of an artist she really is. Hopefully she'll be worth all the Ad money that's placing her music all over the internet and VH1.
In the tradition of the old Friday Night Videos show, I'm going to put Duffy up against another video, "The Most Beautiful Girl In The Room" by Flight of the Conchords. I'm a fan of the Conchords and always get a kick out of this song, particularly the line "You're so beautiful / You could be a part-time model". It's the Mass Marketed Marvel versus the 3rd Best Comedy-Folk Duo from New Zealand. Time to Choose or Lose!
Duffy "Mercy"
Flight of the Conchords "The Most Beautiful Girl in the Room"
2 comments:
You should check out the copyright bodies, you'd find that many of the tracks on Rockferry were written, recorded and registered before anything on Back to Black. You could even get a free download of Rockferry from the Observer newspaper in 2006 before BTB even came out. Infact Rockferry and Warwick Avenue for example were recorded in 2004.
Of course Polydor/Universal have snapped her up - they're not stupid - but judge her on the record and the live performances not the hype.
Thanks for the info! I didn't do much research for the post because...well, the media has me a little Duffied out, but the fact that you know the copyright dates and artist label means she has some real fans out there who care about how her music was made. Usually that's an indication of talent which bodes well for her.
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