June 14, 200916 yr After the shockingly sad miserable failure of I Am Not A Robot to dent the iTunes Top 300, and fail to get playlisted by Radio 1, 2 or Radio 6Music she wrote this quite sad piece on her MySpace blog: Tuesday, 2 June 2009 I AM ACTUALLY NOT A ROBOT. Have finally got to point where don't care about pop anymore. Don't mean pop music in general but rather the pressure to be pop and to have an album full of choruses. JUST. CHORUSES. Love it that record labels are so obsessed with an act having 12 'POTENTIAL NO.1 SINGLES' on an album that they actually forget that there needs to be a tiny bit of soul in the music in order for 'the dumb masses' to swallow it. NEWS FLASH: It is not 1985 and people no longer buy $h!t cds. Heard the other day that one particular major label is starting to look for acts again that have 3-4 hot single songs and 8 great album tracks. That is quite refreshing. I am very glad to be back in the realm of i-dont-care land again and think I shall stay here for a while. Not even bothered about when album is released-as long as the timing feels right and I am 100% confident that I am delivering a gem to whoever buys it (Hello again, Mother..). Don't even find failure that scary when I imagine myself being 100% convinced that this record represents me and not 50,000 other people's sounds. Imagine if you compromised on an album because you thought it would make it successful, only for the album to fail. You would want to kick yourself in the cranium, wouldn't you. Imagine sitting in your fat-man sweat pants in front of 'My Super Sweet 16' for 7 days crying because you could have 'succeeded' if you'd done it your own way. Nobody likes a gal in sweatpants- Everybody likes 'My Super Sweet 16'. Am open to the idea that my album may come out in January. Feel no need to rush now. Aware that these days the ''dumb masses'' move on quickly and everyone likes 'hit me hit me quick with the big fat chorus' tracks but I'm not really into that. One day I will post one of my old songs, before I even knew what a chorus really was, for comic value (this was only 18 months ago. I started late. I was no Britney.). Writing songs for the joy of writing and not because you are writing them so that you can be a Poop Star or get love on radio 1. My true dream is to become successful for what I do naturally, proving to people that you do not have to replicate other people's popular qualities in order to become popular. I know and feel like I don't have the energy to do the whole 'I'm a perfect shiny pop star' act. And sometimes feel guilty for that. Obviously I sound cynical but that world does not satisfy me because it is hollow and $h!tty and fake. It feels almost sinful to contemplate spending my life on things like that. I dont think I can imagine trying to get into the celebrity magazine culture and making sure I was 'spotted' going shopping or whatever to stay 'current'. Find it kinda boring and the schmooze-factor of such worlds leaves me feeling angry that I just wasted 'x' hrs talking to a bunch of dick heads when I could have been thinking about something awesome on my own at home. That is why I prefer to talk to bloggers, because they are like me and don't care if I a spot on my face/ don't know or care what is the hottest new designer bag is. I feel like there is a time and a place for the shiny pop act and my time and place will come. But I think there is a lot more to life and a lot more to the 'dumb masses' than we give ourselves credit for. Apologies for the subject of music tonight on the bog Have liked steering my blog away from it but we all slip up. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It now looks like her debt album will not come out until January 2010. Which I think is a good move as it will avoid her being trampled underfoot by the inferior IMHO Little Boots, La Roux, Florence & The Machine, Paloma Faith & Pixie Lott. Also with her releases getting nowhere near the UK Top 75 she will be eligible to hopefully do well in the Sound of 2010 Critics picks.
June 15, 200916 yr her music sounds far superior to her peers....I would find it a dismal mistake for the music community to not appreciate her and her sense of what music should be. Edited June 15, 200916 yr by ....: Luis :....
June 16, 200916 yr Author After the shockingly sad miserable failure of I Am Not A Robot to dent the iTunes Top 300, and fail to get playlisted by Radio 1, 2 or Radio 6Music she wrote this quite sad piece on her MySpace blog: -It now looks like her debt album will not come out until January 2010. Which I think is a good move as it will avoid her being trampled underfoot by the inferior IMHO Little Boots, La Roux, Florence & The Machine, Paloma Faith & Pixie Lott. Also with her releases getting nowhere near the UK Top 75 she will be eligible to hopefully do well in the Sound of 2010 Critics picks. I don't think she wrote the blog about not being playlisted? She's getting Radio 1 plays etc already on Jo Wiley and other daytime programmes. Neon Gold put out 'I Am Not a Robot' on limited 7", no proper promo. Atlantic have yet to take over and start with any mainstream push. Much like what they did with Little Boots last year, laying the groundwork with early press, remixes and what not. She can't and isn't disconcerted with "failing to dent the top 75" with a release that wasn't intended for chart glory. She can fail when Atlantic put something proper out but until then she's starting the slow push I'd say. Atlantic might though be saving her for the January picks, something she'll do very well in indeed if they choose to wait for then...
June 16, 200916 yr I don't think she wrote the blog about not being playlisted? She's getting Radio 1 plays etc already on Jo Wiley and other daytime programmes. Neon Gold put out 'I Am Not a Robot' on limited 7", no proper promo. Atlantic have yet to take over and start with any mainstream push. Much like what they did with Little Boots last year, laying the groundwork with early press, remixes and what not. She can't and isn't disconcerted with "failing to dent the top 75" with a release that wasn't intended for chart glory. She can fail when Atlantic put something proper out but until then she's starting the slow push I'd say. Atlantic might though be saving her for the January picks, something she'll do very well in indeed if they choose to wait for then... Yeah, I don't think her blog post was about how the EP did. It actually went top 100 on the itunes album chart anyway, so not a complete "flop" (don't like to use that word) for something that hasn't really had much promotion in terms of radio and tv.
June 22, 200916 yr Marina's latest blog: Saturday, 20 June 2009 IT'S $h!tNEY, BITCH. The Britney Obsession definitely correlates with your age and sex- i.e. if you were a 14 year old teen girl when she broke world wide, you will probably find it hard not to love her. If you were a 44 year old man when she broke world wide, you will probably find it hard not to love her. I mention her a lot when I'm asked about inspiration and I feel like people laugh a bit, like 'Oh you!'. But she was a captivating performer, had a genuinely good singing voice when she was young and had worked SINCE SHE WAS 8. So my friend Cara and I trotted off to the 02 Arena filled with nervous glee 3 weeks ago. Place was filled with 3-50 yr old girls and women dressed in cheap Hen Night costumes- we took to our seats nervously, waiting for Brit Brit to come onstage. When she did, we both literally cried (or at least my face contorted a bit and my eyes welled with tears for a minute). She is our teenage idol, everyone. We could not react differently. I was shocked that I felt so intense seeing as she was a billion feet from me but its Britney Spears. We both thought the show was great for a while but the cracks kinda started to show half way through. "Do these low end pole dancer moves count as actual performing? Does everything have to be so blatantly sexual that it doesnt actually feel very sexy? Why is she still feeling the need to dance in a bra and knickers?" Britney is not really performing at the moment, yall. She is not singing, she is not relying on an out-of-this-world toned body- so I ask the question- What is she? Is she an artist anymore? Does she play an instrument? Does she write songs? Is she even real? Feel its a shame and feel its going to be a while until we see something that feels like real human gold again. I felt like she was a mannequin. She barely interacted with the crowd, the choreography was appalling and reminiscent of something you'd see in a strip joint. I was more surprised than disappointed. If your not busting out dance moves, please sing for me at least and show me some kind of reason for why I'm here.. Feel like her and her camp are relying on her brand and name. I am having to question her strength as an artist: Madonna was a visionary and pioneer. Brit Brit can take still her clothes off, ten years down the line. Bravo. Sad. (PLEASE LORD DO NOT SMITE ME FOR CRITICISING BRITNEY- ITS THE FIRST TIME I'VE EVER SAID SOMETHING BAD ABOUT OUR GIRL BUT I AM SO SCURRED SHE IS BECOMING A PREDICTABLE EMPTY DOLL) Now don't get me wrong- I will follow her loyally for the rest of my life. I am convinced she's going through a bad patch. She had a nervous breakdown and shouldn't really be expected to be breaking out the dance moves. But I just find it weird that talent can disappear so obviously. Its like they have all the boxed ticked now: She looks great and all, is working, world tour etc but is there anything moving behind the eyes?! Seems like she doesn't have the confidence to perform at the moment and that is why the show wasn't that good. Feel sad cause feel like she thinks she is only worth something if she is the pre-baby hot body Britney rocking the weird virginal image ad nauseum. Point of this post: I was bummed that I didn't catch a glimpse of the Old Britney anywhere in the show. Bottom line: Even if she bins pop and branches out in Bavarian Nose Flute Anthems 'R US when she's 68, I will still buy it and I will still be there front-centre gyrating around in the $h!tty £25 merch t-shirt I bought at the O2 Arena (''Cause it's a CLASSIC yall..'')
June 25, 200916 yr The video is really nice. Hopefully it'll get some plays on TV - it's such a great song it really deserves to do well.
June 25, 200916 yr The video certainly wears the artist's Kate Bush & Peter Gabriel influences very proudly. :wub: Why this song was ignored by Radio 1, 2 & BBC 6 Music and the song failed to reach the iTunes Top 300 & the Official Chart 200; when the tuneless La Roux can romp to #1 with ease in 2009 remains a huge mystery to me. But then again in my head Royksopp & Robyn's The Girl & The Robot should be a huge #1 hit single, but it is clearly not even going to make the Top 40, as those 3 stations have also snubbed it, and I've only seen thevideo on music channels once (on Q).
June 25, 200916 yr Maybe now it has a video they will give it a push with some promo and it might get picked up. I know Radio 1 has already played I Am Not A Robot. I surprised Radio 2 haven't jumped on it though - it's right up their alley.
June 29, 200916 yr Am I the only one who thinks I Am Not a Robot sounds a bit like Dresden Dolls-lite?
March 31, 201015 yr Not one of my favourite songs on the album. I don't like the intro. There are at least 6 better songs on the album in my opinion.
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