Bigmouths Strike Again: NME Edition
Just the beginning of a lengthy barage on this person's relationship with the Brit rag:
I probably shouldn't be writing this , but I have to get it off my chest . I am not a big fan of the NME , as they sold me down the river when I last talked to them , I did and interview and made a sarcastic joke using the word "gak" which is slang for cocaine . They glorified my joke and used it out of context , then their public relations dept , contacted the tabloids in a shameful attempt to sell more copies .Oh, but there's more! Make your guess, take the jump, and then read on.
All of this comes from Lily's recent MySpace blog post. She goes on:
And , I have ever since been known as " Lily Allen , Pint sized potty mouth popstar who once admitted she would celebrate her no 1 single by taking cocaine ! " .Muse or the first females of rock in '06? From both a cred and a sales standpoint, NME blew it on that one. Not to mention how photogenic Lily is.
Thanks NME . Now , I have read many articles in the NME , where male band members freely admit to, or associate themselves with the taking of drugs , and I havent seen many of them ending up in the tabloids . Take Klaxons for example, and the ongoing MDMA references. " MDMAZING " I believe was the title of a recent article ( how responsible! ) .
The only reason I can think of , for recieving such a different form of treatment , is because I am a woman . I did recieve a written apology from Conor Mcnicholas ( the editor) . But i vowed never to work with the NME agian . As I thought, if there was one publication I could trust and be frank with , it would be the theirs .Anyway , I was aproached by them again , with regards to the "Cool List Issue 2006" , five women had made it into the top 10 and , subsequently we (the women) were asked to pose for photos to be the main feature for the cover . As I said before , I vowed not to work with them again , but as the context was so important ie; a a strong female presence in music . I thought i might aswell put aside my differences and do it . Now i don't care for " the cool list " , and I said this to them in the interview , which is probably why they didn't print it . I don't really think the NME are in any position to tell us who is cool and who isn't , personally I don't think a bunch of people sitting in an office drinking tea , inventing musical genres , and watching Nathan Barley DVD's are leading any kind of cool brigade , do you ?
But i did find it interesting that they wanted to put five women on the cover , and wanted to name 2006 , our year .I went to get a copy yesterday , and this is what we ( the women ) got . Another fuckin MUSE cover . I like Muse , infact , Black Holes and Revelations , is one of my favourite albums of this year . But the NME have covered them so much this year already .
Posted at 10:18 AM in Bigmouths Strike Again
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Ugh. NME, why you gotta do Lily like that?
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The Guardian covered the same thing (Muse on the cover instead of the women) in an interview with Beth Ditto:
http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/story/0,,1956994,00.html
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I actually bought the newest NME. Nothing intresting in it at all anymore. 'The fly' (free gig guide) had more in it.
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Was it always this rubbish? The NME was my music bible in my teens and early 20s. You can't trust the NME reviews either. Pretty much everything gets the standard 8 our of 10 rating.
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Was it always this rubbish? The NME was my music bible in my teens and early 20s. You can't trust the NME reviews either. Pretty much everything gets the standard 8 our of 10 rating.
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Was it always this rubbish? The NME was my music bible in my teens and early 20s. You can't trust the NME reviews these days either. Pretty much everything gets the standard 8 our of 10 rating.
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Was it always this rubbish? The NME was my music bible in my teens and early 20s. You can't trust the NME reviews these days either. Pretty much everything gets the standard 8 our of 10 rating.
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I think this is the first time I've ever found a Lily Allen interview (blog, I know, but same principle) readable.
No, of course the NME wasn't always rubbish, it's just their field of musical vision is so small now you could have seen this coming. When they put the Horrors on the cover a couple of months ago the reaction should ideally have been that they were at least taking a flyer on a new band the populace won't necessarily get - instead everyone who saw it knew that this was just the precusor to months and months of inevitable overhype. As indeed has happened. They came across Beth for the first time about three months ago (and she's the first Cool List number one not to be the cover star)
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I when I read the NME -- way back late 80s/early 90s, -- besides Melody Maker, there was bugger all else around to get your regular music fix from. Quite why the young whippersnappers today buy this rag, when there's so much superior content online, is beyond me. Tut tut, kids today don't know they're born.
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didn't she mention this in her p4k interview?
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NME and Lily Allen are both totally dookie.
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"personally I don't think a bunch of people sitting in an office drinking tea , inventing musical genres , and watching Nathan Barley DVD's are leading any kind of cool brigade"
bahahaha so true
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NME = Spin
different countries
both crap
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I love Lily Allen... I really do. The NME? Well I still buy it but agree that it's getting a little out of control on the bullshit meter. There don't seem to be a whole lot of britbands or songwriters or whatever NOT doing cocaine and it isn't really fair to over emphasize her drug use. Why don't they care about the Klaxons taking MDMA? Because they came out of the gate saying that and mentioning it to people who don't read the NME wouldn't raise an eyebrow. Obviously with Lily it does. Telling granny that the girl on T.V. hoovers more blow than Scarface draws a lot of attention. But in the end who fucking cares? It makes her more endearing that she has been honest. She needs to just stay away from them if they are going to use that against her, although that's difficult to do. With the media it's one of those 'snake bite me once...' things. But I still love her.
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