hype!

[chirpychirpy]

I just seen a TV ad for Imelda May's new album which declares her 'the undisputed queen of rock n roll'. Excuse me???? I can't even name one of her songs, let alone hum them. Earlier this year a TV ad for Alfie Boe's debut CD described him as 'the nation's favourite tenor', when I doubnt many peole had even heard of him. What do you make of such hype and who do you think are truly deserving of those descriptions?

[Bobbisox]

Good stuff, I never knew that, thanks

[pa___ul3]

hype works! Tell enough people that that should like this band or that artist and they will! The impressionable spend money!

[Bobbisox]

I have seen with Jules Holland and just this morning on MW Show, I quite like her music

[andy-hughes]

Advertising lives and breathes hype - most people simply ignore it, it's not worh taking too seriously.

i know Imelda, and she would die sooner than claim to be 'queen' of anything, she is a very unassuming and modest person.

But the advert is designed to sell, so it's not going to say "Imelda May is a hot rockabilly star, but not rock and roll, that;s a different sub-genre althogether ..." so they just bump it up, and people that are interested will buy, and those who are not will ignore.

Next week - is Cillit Bang really worth getting that excited about ....?

[JimmyCooper]

Tainted Love..60?????

Tainted Love" was relesed on July 7, 1981
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Recorded in 1965 released in 1966 by Gloria Jones (marc Bolans gf)

relatively obscure until 1973 when it became big on the Northern Soul scene

re-recorded in 1976

[thrillseeker]

try leaving your house...sorry armchairs