Posted September 6, 200816 yr VV Brown 'Crying Blood' tba Island Records 27 October 2008 http://www.rockfoto.nu/image/20080612_201523_933819.jpg VV Brown Synopsis (The Guardian) ›› Hometown: London. The lineup: Vanessa Brown (vocals, instruments, production). The background: Warning: today's column will feature zero references to the Clash or Gang Of Four. VV Brown is the sum of her idiosyncratic listening habits: old rock'n'roll and doo wop, novelty soul and incidental music from Nintendo games and Disney movies. One of her songs, Quick Fix, is a dead ringer for Toni Basil's Mickey, fast becoming the most influential piece of music of the modern era (see also: the Ting Tings' That's Not My Name). Debut single Crying Blood nicks the chorus from 1962 novelty smash Monster Mash by Bobby "Boris" Pickett. Bottles is 60s R&B meets the modern variety, with a melodic refrain based on teach-yourself-piano standby Chopsticks. Travelling Like The Light is a doo wop ballad with handclaps and an echoey trip hop production. And L.E.A.V.E. sounds like Quick Fix, so we'll stop there for a breather. VV Brown - Vanessa Brown to her mum and chums and paymasters at Island, the new home of wonky pop - is a 24-year-old singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and producer who cut her gnashers in LA performing backing vocals and penning tunes for Pussycat Dolls and, back home, doing same for Sugababes. She almost released a record under the name Vanessa Brown which would have been a far more conventional and less far-out affair than the bubblegum punk'n'soul she peddles as VV Brown, so hurrah for that. She's always been a bit out-to-lunch. In fact, lunch-breaks at school were spent sitting on the school field wondering why the grass was green. She calls the mad mix of music she grew up listening to as "musical mashed potatoes", and she got the impetus for her career volte-face from a violently unhappy break-up with an arsehole boyfriend, which might explain why, beneath the merry melodies and Looney Tunes, lurk songs of real heartbreak, full of dark portents and disturbing imagery. "I was in a quagmire of self-doubt and complete hell," the Veevster says of her period of transition, after splitting with her jerk-off ex but before Going Wonky. "I was lost in a flood of tears and blinding love and felt like a complete piece of nothing. Got a cheap guitar and started to write in my room I was renting. Was starting to listen to a lot of old rock'n'roll." Money was so tight, she was forced to buy a one-string guitar from a charity shop. She marked the frets out with her red nail varnish and wrote Crying Blood the next day. And now she's falling like a comet from a broken sky. The buzz: "Upbeat summer pop that strikes a big impression." The truth: Blimey, damn her with faint praise, why don't you? VV is far less innocuous, and far more love-her-or-hate-her, than that makes her sound. We love her, but then, we're wonky. Most likely to: Cry tears of joy at next year's Brits. Least likely to: Cry blood. File next to: Little Jackie, Tawiah, Ebony Bones, the Moonglows. http://www.popjustice.com/images/stories/v/vvbrownlogowatch.jpg 'Crying Blood' Video ›› m3-Q4T7bC2c Brilliant. VV should be big :wub:
September 6, 200816 yr The song is only okay, on first listen anyway...everybody seems to be raving about her so I want to love it, but it's not all that...perhaps it'll grow. I hope so.
September 6, 200816 yr I heard this on Popjustice. Although i'm not AMAZEDi must say i was pleasently surprised.
September 7, 200816 yr Ooo, I've just posted in the release schedule about her, Crying Blood is being released on the 27th of October. :D
September 7, 200816 yr Ooo, I've just posted in the release schedule about her, Crying Blood is being released on the 27th of October. :D Ooh good, I hope it's a hit for her! ^_^
September 9, 200816 yr The song is only okay, on first listen anyway...everybody seems to be raving about her . mostly music week - well every other week they have not mentioned delphic Zm3w1QSuKxw
September 9, 200816 yr I feel like this is a song you should hear at a water park. :o Tis nice though. :)
September 17, 200816 yr Lol what an odd thing to say.. most water parks I go to just replay songs from 2001... I really like this, it's inspired!
September 17, 200816 yr Oh and apparently she stepped in for Paul McCartney on Jools Holland last night... I hope she performed well! That can do big things for you, KT Tunstall was discovered properly after being a stand in on Jools, and someone else famously did too - I want to say Corinne Bailey Rae but not sure.. hopefully this will do something for her!
September 22, 200816 yr Lol what an odd thing to say.. most water parks I go to just replay songs from 2001... that's certainly true of most swimming pools in my area too, the hits of 1999 are a regular feature :heehee:
September 22, 200816 yr *sigh* They've stopped playing music at my local pool for some reason. I remember Now 52 being the soundtrack to my swimming :D
September 22, 200816 yr Do we know where Crying Blood is now on I-Tunes? It's not in the Top 100 yet but it's #52 in the pop chart.
September 22, 200816 yr Ah good. Hopefully it'll start climbing when the video hits the music channels.
September 23, 200816 yr Oh :o I saw her live at The Lockout when I went to see Lu Silvas. Obviously she didn't touch Lu's voice, but she was good, and friendly too. Very sparkly I remember. I can't remember what she sang that night, but it was infinately better than that ^
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