The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #103864   Message #2121452
Posted By: The Borchester Echo
08-Aug-07 - 03:46 AM
Thread Name: Kate Rusby, 'You belong to me'
Subject: RE: Kate Rusby, 'You belong to me'
What I talk about mostly, 'phil who has lost his star', is English music with roots in a tradition.
If you think that's tosh, I'd suggest you are in the wrong place entirely.
kRusby (and Pure) have an agenda: to push what she produces onto mainstream playlists.
kRusby, who I've met only a couple of times, seems very nice.
I'm sure she is just that. Who she is isn't quite the point. It's what she does.
Her music may be considered 'nice' too, if you happen to like that sort of MOR pop.
A recording of a dreary, dated mainstream song of the 'moon in June' genus does not a thing to promote English music, even if it is rendered in an English regional accent.
To post a link to her performing it can only be a wind-up at best and the result of imposing it on the unsuspecting could do immense damage the image of English music.