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How did I miss hearing and hearing about Duffy until just now?
It was against my will that I watched that CBS special FASHION ROCKS - long story, but during my years at VH1, under my regime, the VH1-Vogue Fashion Awards were created... and this is the latest iteration of that kind of programming...
Much to my suprise, the show was incredibly well done from the standpoint that there was nothing superfluous about it - the show was straightforward - no gratuitous awards for dubious achievements... just the acknowledgement that "fashion rocks" and then showing how and backing it up with music. It took more than 10 years to make it right, but they did it right.
Duffy - the young Welsh singer - totally impressed the hell out of me. Very 60s Brit-Pop soul - like Lulu and Dusty Springfield. Unfortunately, the wardrobe dept and/or producers put that girl in a sausage casing of a dress with a rear slit so high that all she could do was wiggle, but I'd like to think that if it were 40 years ago and she was on Ready Steady Go, she would have blown us all away just the same.
And while on the topic of that show.... Justin Timberlake seemed like he wanted to be George Michael; Kid Rock - f*ck YEAH!!!; Mary J Blige... awesome. Beyonce managed to get Timberlake to step up... but this TIMBALAND trio thingie.... didn't work for me. What was the point? lame. not any of those artists best moment... and who told Chris Cornell to make art with his facial hair?
I only saw maybe 30-40 minutes of the 2-hour extravaganza, but I'm glad I saw Duffy. I'm so gonna buy her record when I go out tomorrow.
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Yeah, she can do it live OK along with Adele who is the other big UK girl at the moment. Listen to her taking on The Raconteurs; Many Shades Of Black; http://mog.com/Neill/blog/184649
This Duffy has good pipes. The song's melody resembles Aretha Franklin's hit "Chain of Fools."
I loved Mercy, and then I loved Warwick Avenue. Still do.
But then the other day I caught Duffy on TV, performing live, and it left me totally deflated, and frankly, worried... so much (in my ears: too much) vibration in her voice, so much (in my ears: too much) vocal improvising on the melodies... the original tunes seemed lost to me, and the powerful pipes I thought she had... more like airvents?
Her posture appeared tired, her eyes blank, her delivery emotionless.
It made me wonder.
Has she been thrown in the deep end when perhaps she should have been carefully nurtured, instead? Has she perhaps been made to perform those same songs too many times in too short a period, that she got tired, drained and bored with them already?
She and Adele have really only been on the (big) scene for... under a year; both have been pushed hard (and, from day 1, globally) by their labels as "replacement Amys" for Ms. All-But-Dead Winehouse, marketed agressively and thrown into gruelling promotion/tour schedules right across the globe. Perhaps all a bit too much, too quick?
The Winehouses and Dohertys have had several years to linger to reach their current state of near-destruction. The Duffys and Adeles may well be smarter, fresher, stronger, brighter and possibly even more talented.
But it doesn't necessarily take drugs, alcohol or medication to break someone down before their time.