April 27, 200916 yr Is it really?! Tits up for who? Your own enjoyment or success proper? She's going to have no problem finding the latter that's for sure... Long term success - sure with Radio 1 backing she'll have 1 hit or two but I doubt the way this rushed money orientated strategy is going so far her record company plan to be supporting her in the long run.
April 27, 200916 yr Author Long term success - sure with Radio 1 backing she'll have 1 hit or two but I doubt the way this rushed money orientated strategy is going so far her record company plan to be supporting her in the long run. What aspect of the project has been rushed? She's been working on this record for some 18 months now? You should also check out the clips on iTunes. 9 or so of the tracks would make good single choices. I still don't understand what aspect of this project makes you believe she's incapable of long term success. You're judging on the basis of one song :s
April 27, 200916 yr What aspect of the project has been rushed? She's been working on this record for some 18 months now? You should also check out the clips on iTunes. 9 or so of the tracks would make good single choices. I still don't understand what aspect of this project makes you believe she's incapable of long term success. You're judging on the basis of one song :s No, I'm judging that on the basis of how the campaign is being run. Don't get me wrong, I like her and agree that she is very talented and deserves to do well - but she can't be very intelligent if she can't see that her record company is screwing her over for a quick profit. There are loads of single choices I agree, which begs the question, why "New In Town" first?
April 27, 200916 yr Author No, I'm judging that on the basis of how the campaign is being run. Don't get me wrong, I like her and agree that she is very talented and deserves to do well - but she can't be very intelligent if she can't see that her record company is screwing her over for a quick profit. There are loads of single choices I agree, which begs the question, why "New In Town" first? Oh I agree her record label are screwing her over for profit and I agree there are better choices for lead single. 'Remedy', 'Meddle', 'Earthquake' would all have been much better. However I disagree with you assertion that she'll manage two hits at most because the album IS (as much as it's a cashcow) strong enough to get her multi-hits. But yerz I don't like the way Atlantic are handling her either. Tis sad...
April 28, 200916 yr Author She's releasing a US EP in June entitled "Illuminations": 01 New In Town 02 Stuck On Repeat 03 Not Now [uS Exclusive] 04 Magical 05 Love Kills 'Ooo err'...
April 29, 200916 yr You can preorder the album on iTunes and listen to clips of all the tracks :D Dunno if that's been said already but I didn't bother to read the rest of the thread. That said Boots is a new artist I can finally get excited about as 2009 has been pretty boring so far for new talent. I already think the album is going to be my favourite of the year just from the clips :lol:
May 9, 200916 yr Where is the buzz for this track? :wacko: Well the awful Thriller rip off video with the tramps for New In Town does not help matters at all. Still maybe she will get a boost from a contestant from Britain's Got Talent....... 8WUD6J-bmu8 :D
May 9, 200916 yr Author ^ Do you have any extended thoughts on the video TIPs, I'm quite interested for your take on the whole thing. The dogging scenes, choreographed tramps, weird angles, lack of Boots in video, lack of fitting with the general context of Boots' music all baffled and slightly repulsed me. She also looks much too thin in the video.
May 9, 200916 yr ^ Do you have any extended thoughts on the video TIPs, I'm quite interested for your take on the whole thing. The dogging scenes, choreographed tramps, weird angles, lack of Boots in video, lack of fitting with the general context of Boots' music all baffled and slightly repulsed me. She also looks much too thin in the video. Exactly, I was hugely disappointed by it, and I can't see how it will help sell her as an Artist; in stark contrast to Lady GaGa's videos that perfectly compliment her as an artist. Or even La Roux's early 1980s style videos that perfectly compliment their sound and Elly's secret love child of David Bowie & Annie Lennox image. It all seems so very desperate to grab the attention of the media by being shocking for shocking sake; as essentially she is a commercial artist who from what I've heard should be the most successful of the quartet (adding Florence & Marina to the equation) of new UK electro-pop female singer songwriters even if I suspect I will prefer Marina's debut album the most. I'm slightly fearful that this video is so crass it will do for her career what this video & song did to damage a very successful 1980s UK Pop outfit 25 years ago: zyFX-KtTmcI Culture Club - The War Song
May 9, 200916 yr I really fear that this will ruin her as an artist...she's already in danger of entering a market that may be perceived as oversaturated, and quite honestly the video doesn't help her at all. f***ing Jake Nava :(
May 9, 200916 yr I watched the video for New In Town again and it just baffled me even more than the first time I saw it. If the song is all about her knowing where to go out, why is set under a bridge in America? Like I said in another post, should've been set in Blackpool. I read this article which is semi interesting: The Great Misunderstanding Of Little Boots May 7th, 2009 OPINION: How Victoria Hesketh went from being everybody’s top tip to everybody’s punchbag Nobody was ever going to expect the whole population of the world to stop what they were doing and go out and buy Little Boots’ debut album. Nor would you expect the vast majority of music fans to fall head over heels in love with ‘Hands’ the second they first heard it. But a general opinion has emerged that somewhere along the way, she’s bottled it, made a record completely dictated by an urge to sell records, a record that ignores her electronic roots. But in truth, the moment we became fixated with ‘Stuck On Repeat’ was the moment we became presumptuous as to how Little Boots’ first offering would sound. With Joe Goddard of Hot Chip on production duties, people had every right to expect what they didn’t get. Instead of a dark, hypnotic debut album is something that Clash Magazine calls a little more “lightweight“. But in truth it might have been poor judgement on our part to expect a deep exploration into the weird and the wonderful, such as the Jools Holland performance of ‘Meddle’. But Victoria Hesketh certainly made no attempts to shy away from this sketched-out image. Already, in comes the conspiracy theories of big label influence, the grossly negative reviews, the general consensus of almost feeling cheated. But is ‘Hands’ more predictable than we’d imagine? Any #1 tip on a BBC poll has to have elements of accessibility to them. The Bravery never made it there for getting naked during festivals. No, they made it because they were tame, listenable, future certainties on Radio 1 no matter how the debut album panned out. When it comes to Hesketh, she is a former auditionee on the X Factor, an attractive, sell-able artist, one with a spark of ambition in her eyes. Bottling it, in her regards, would be to start of a career making something avant-garde, completely unexpected. If she is the scientist we believe her to be, let her delve into newer territories when she has the record sales under her belt. ‘Hands’ might be a disappointing record. But it should merely be judged on a basis of whether it’s good in terms of being an accesible, light-weight pop record, not some groundbreaking masterpiece. Maybe we got excited by Little Boots for the wrong reasons. But give her time, she might one day emerge with something completely free, inspired, not weighted down by expectation or target markets. But for the time being let her seize the opportunity of being the most talked about human being in music. It is funny how she's somehow managed to turn herself from the most hyped into the most disliked. I don't agree that for a first album she had to be accesible though. She could've got big sales with an avant garde album IMO, and then she would've had sales under her belt and her credibility in tact. New In Town is forgiveable because it's pretty good pop music, but the video is what has destroyed her credibility. It undermines everything she's done before.
May 11, 200916 yr 5neUyDXDOMY Little Boots on BBC Breakfast News (11 May 09) - Interview and impromptu performance of Stuck On Repeat
May 13, 200916 yr Talk about a video killing the radio star. It really has done damage to her career with a single a month ago that was expected to debut inside the Top 3 (if not #1). Now it will be lucky to reach #24... Anyway, here was her superb performance on Later last night: Feu6CtMRSFA Little Boots - New In Town (Later Live with Jools Holland)
May 16, 200916 yr Remedy performance from Jools: kNZdiVFGWOM I do hope this means it'll be the second single. Great song despite the promise of two choruses when actually it's just one chorus with different lyrics. Evidence of a REAL second chorus can be found on 'Red Dress' or 'I Begin To Wonder', fact fans.
May 16, 200916 yr LOVE the chorus on 'Remedy' :wub: One of my fave Little Boots songs along with 'Meddle' :heart: Can't WAIT for her album!
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