I refuse to renounce KT Tunstall simply because she is played in Starbucks. If anyone was suffering under delusions that I was music snob material, well, now you know.
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19 Nov 2007 08:01 pm
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Well, they play Ray Charles, so they can't be all bad.
You have to appreciate a corporation that gives you a decent cup of coffee in Hillsboro, Texas. Woo hoo.
You talk a good game, but we knew all along that you are a Huey Lewis and the News fan.
Will you renounce her for other reasons? Other than her awful songs, there's the fact that her fame has to do with American Idol, and then there's the reason she gives for calling herself "KT" (which are not initials):
While her first name is Kate, she chose to go by KT as her first name, saying "[Kate] just makes me think of a buxom lass baking bread for her man working in the fields. I have no problem with that, but it's just not really how I pictured being a rock star."
I'm with Justin. I renounce her because she's dreadful.
Yeah, I know a couple of people who got really worked up when Fiest started appearing in Starbucks. Makes no sense to me.
There are clear benefits to having your favorite artist stay relatively unknown (though obviously not so unknown that they give up and quit music altogether).
My favorite local band just signed a major contract, and while I'm certainly happy for them, and glad a good band got the success it deserved, for me it really sucks. They won't tour locally much anymore, their albums are going to cost more, their concerts are going to cost a *lot* more and be much harder to get into.
And in the end, it's just no fun liking something that everyone else already likes too.
'... there's the fact that her fame has to do with American Idol, and then there's the reason she gives for calling herself "KT" (which are not initials):...'
Why would you care?
'... there's the fact that her fame has to do with American Idol, and then there's the reason she gives for calling herself "KT" (which are not initials):...'
Why would you care?
And furthermore, is he as worked up about all the other musicians with stage names?
"You talk a good game, but we knew all along that you are a Huey Lewis and the News fan."
c'mon, who wasn't a Huey Lewis fan when they were 10?
I don't "care." I don't like her because I don't like her music. The rest is just to make fun of her, and those who do, natch.
She sounds mannish ... and she played at Live Earth. That's enough for me to tune out.
Starbucks has a bunch of different official playlists. Some of them are quite bad (especially the Dave Matthews Band one) and some of them are, in fact, quite good.
While her first name is Kate, she chose to go by KT as her first name, saying "[Kate] just makes me think of a buxom lass baking bread for her man working in the fields. I have no problem with that, but it's just not really how I pictured being a rock star."
Huh...well then, maybe our Kate can sue her for defamation of character? (I don't dare try to identify which parts of that statement are the actual defamatory ones, though!)
I'll confess, I always rolled my eyes at the people who got bent out of shape when their favorite band enjoyed some mainstream exposure. Then I attended a few shows by long-beloved artists who'd just been played on "The O.C." and pronounced Awesome by millions of high school students. I'm still happy for the bands' good fortune, but also marginally more sympathetic to the shudder.
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Suddenly I see...you in a different light.
Posted by Colin Fraizer | November 19, 2007 8:05 PM