Kasabian Singer Brands US Music Fans 'Deluded' and '30 Years Behind UK'
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Tom Meighan, lead singer with Mercury music prize nominee Kasabian, has branded American music fans "deluded" and said they are 30 years behind the UK musically.
He told UK radio station XFM that, "You have to be U2 or Coldplay to get radio play. Americans are deluded, not all of them. They think they're ahead, but musically they're not. They're 30 years behind."
His outburst comes just days after the band's third album, West Pauper Ryder Lunatic was nominated for a Mercury music prize and a month after it topped the UK album charts....more
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I hate to say it, but I totally agree with Tom, with one refinement - "popular." American "popular" music fans are certainly 30 years behind British "popular" music fans, if not in a shielded, childish parallel universe altogether. I dig Kasabian though.
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Manhattan. The last place music goes before it goes off.