Thursday, March 04, 2004
Studt Up Shop
Amy Studt has been dropped.
Please, can we have a moments silence for the girl who was universally known as the less-successful Avril Lavigne.
*cough* (shh!)
Yes, it's true, Amy has been let go (this would have been a better line had it been the actual Avril who'd been dropped). It seems she was considered a misfit (Hey! We're trying here) and is now surplus to requirements. This upsets us as we really liked Amy, False Smiles is a great album and, as anyone with ears will tell you, Ladder in my Tights has number 1 written all over it. Or at least it does on our copy, but that's what you get for letting small children with crayons near your CD collection.
So, what does this mean in terms of the bigger picture? Well, not a lot really, it's just another sign that record companies aren't interested in pop that doesn't offer an immediate return on their investment. Amy was already living on borrowed time after the relative failure (Number 14) of Just a Little Girl, so it was only really a question of waiting for the knives to be sharpened. The unexpected release of her All I Wanna Do cover, while better than we expected, was clearly a last gasp effort to increase sales of the album. It didn't work, so she now goes off to join the queue of Brit girl pop failures lining up next to Siobhan Donaghy, another girl who we expected big things of, but has ultimately ended up picking at scraps in the dustbin of success. With this track record, perhaps we should think about becoming a Dido fan.
Please, can we have a moments silence for the girl who was universally known as the less-successful Avril Lavigne.
*cough* (shh!)
Yes, it's true, Amy has been let go (this would have been a better line had it been the actual Avril who'd been dropped). It seems she was considered a misfit (Hey! We're trying here) and is now surplus to requirements. This upsets us as we really liked Amy, False Smiles is a great album and, as anyone with ears will tell you, Ladder in my Tights has number 1 written all over it. Or at least it does on our copy, but that's what you get for letting small children with crayons near your CD collection.
So, what does this mean in terms of the bigger picture? Well, not a lot really, it's just another sign that record companies aren't interested in pop that doesn't offer an immediate return on their investment. Amy was already living on borrowed time after the relative failure (Number 14) of Just a Little Girl, so it was only really a question of waiting for the knives to be sharpened. The unexpected release of her All I Wanna Do cover, while better than we expected, was clearly a last gasp effort to increase sales of the album. It didn't work, so she now goes off to join the queue of Brit girl pop failures lining up next to Siobhan Donaghy, another girl who we expected big things of, but has ultimately ended up picking at scraps in the dustbin of success. With this track record, perhaps we should think about becoming a Dido fan.
