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From a genuine press release for some new Swedish singer with a single on the Spider-Man soundtrack. This is so exquisitely wrong in every respect that it could be a Private Eye send-up. It gets better each time I read it.

With her 'no bullshit' attitude, Ana is a breath of fresh air in the Music
Industry: She likes honest, hand-made music. "No computer in the world can
really compete with proper instruments". With her stunning looks, Ana could
easily have been moulded into a respectable conveyor-belt pop singer, but:
"Light R&B," says strong-willed Ana shaking her blond hair, "is not my
scene!"

― Dorian Lynskey, Thursday, 20 May 2004 08:46 (nineteen years ago) link

'no bullshit'

― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 20 May 2004 10:01 (nineteen years ago) link

What is "hand-made music"? I'm picturing hurdy-gurdys.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Thursday, 20 May 2004 11:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I like how 'no bullshit' is in quote marks

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 20 May 2004 11:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Well done her for not being afraid to speak her mind and stand out in the crowd. I wish her every success for the future and look forward to hearing her material.

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 20 May 2004 11:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I like how "Music Industry" is capped for no reason at all.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 May 2004 11:48 (nineteen years ago) link

i am picturing a girl who used to busk on the streets, covering j lo songs... 'ironically'.

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 20 May 2004 11:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Surely that should be "Lite R&B"?

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 20 May 2004 18:30 (nineteen years ago) link

her blond hair shakes!

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 20 May 2004 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link

It's about time we had an artist with such strong values and a positive message. Bravo Ana.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 May 2004 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.latinosportslegends.com/images/Trinidad_drops_Vargas_with_right.jpg

― Kris (aqueduct), Thursday, 20 May 2004 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link

http://rangers.siegler.net/images/misc/clemente.jpg

― Kris (aqueduct), Thursday, 20 May 2004 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link

all she needs is an MP3-jay behind her.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 20 May 2004 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Surely that should be "Lite R&B"?

Surely "Lyte"?

― Ben Dot (1977), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Too-shay, Ben.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I like the idea that she'd be a 'respectable conveyor-belt pop singer'.

― cis (cis), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

Picture a home-body with an ever-present wanderlust, an introvert with a passion for performing, a creative free-spirit with enough discipline to rework her dream year after year, calloused little hands and a big pile of curly hairand you've got Beth Wood, modern-day troubadour.

Picture a tumbleweed blowing across the plains of west Texas, and another musician-songwriter is born!

― crüt, Thursday, 20 December 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link

Fans say that Branch's sound combines the rock-blues vocal stylings of John Mayer with the acoustic musings of Jack Johnson and Jason Mraz, all mashed up together into great music that is all his own.

― crüt, Thursday, 20 December 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link

two years pass...

Allie X shared more new music yesterday, premiering a Xample of "Good" on Gorilla vs. Bear. Check out a preview of the song alongside one of Allie X's signature spinning gifs HERE.

― katherine, Thursday, 26 March 2015 20:36 (nine years ago) link

(I liked "Catch" but what is this xhit)

― katherine, Thursday, 26 March 2015 20:36 (nine years ago) link

three years pass...

how you can own a slice of Better Midler's "The Rose"

sorry, all my money's tied up in Worse Midler

― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link

obviously Middle Midler wd be the way to go

― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link

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