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May 15, 2006
More Hating on Lady Sovereign
[Louise Harman proving her mettle and fishing for promotional deals.]
We try to keep it positive here at MS.com, golden rule and all. Though sometimes, hype demands squashing. Case in point, Lady Sovereign. She wasn't even mildly entertaining at Coachella. Bland, irritating and embarrassingly unconvincing. Hip hop, rap, grime, whatever has a reputation for toughness. Lady S. leveraged her cornrows and oh-so-hardcore sideways ponytail with a shout out to everyone on MySpace. Jay-Z got his props and is totally in her top eight.
Notes from a Different Kitchen blog chimes in on the UK grime scene and lets us in on comments from an equally unimpressed industry head who was at her Def Jam audition (link).
"In the meantime, what's the state of the UK grime scene in 2006? Well let me relay a story I heard from a very successful A&R/artist manager in the hip hop game about the much-feted Lady Sov and the now legendary-in-the-blogopshere [sic] audition for Jay-Z which led to her improbable signing to Def Jam:"That chick signed to Def Jam?! I was there that day when she was at Def Jam. She barely said a word and Jay kept begging her to kick a freestyle and she kept refusing. When she finally did she was terrible, I can't believe she got a deal."
That pretty sums it up as far as grime's prospects in the US go and is a pretty accurate assessment of this chick too in my view. Outside of a couple bright moments on an mp3 or 12" here and there, I don't see what the fuss is all about. She hit one out the park one time on a fluke and got to sign to the Yankees?! What part of the game is that?!"
Lady S. gets publicity (and perhaps even a record deal) because she's a cute girl rapping. Not being misogynistic as regular readers of this site can attest. MS staff have nothing but love for women in music. In fact we are likely guilty of disproportionately praising female bands in our discourse.
Bottom line, Lady Sovereign is a hip hop story because she is a girl like Eminem was the hip hop story because he is white. The colossal difference is Eminem has the talent to back up the curiosity.
If the blogosphere is going to clique on a performer, do so with Long Blondes jerks!
[Ed note - Expect more contrarian posts like this one from MS.com. Lily Allen? WTF?]
Lady Sovereign, Jay Z, Def Jam, Eminem, Hype?
Posted by Merry Swankster at May 15, 2006 03:30 PM
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shes really cooolll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: bethany at March 19, 2007 03:29 AM
u r all gay cunts
Posted by: james mavros at March 22, 2007 01:28 AM
all u poeple who r tryna hate on her aint got an excuse...jsut cos she made it in her life and ur stuck in the bottom don't mean she's crap at suttin so stop hating and get on with ur life.
peace
Posted by: Anonymous at March 22, 2007 12:16 PM
Dude seriously, stop talking like a black guy, cuz i know you aren't XD
Greetings
Posted by: hahaha at March 22, 2007 03:20 PM
lady sov is reli gd n unique...
n im sorry y slag sum1 off wen u av neva met them!
she is a gd icon 2 teeneagers.... n i love the way she takes the mick ot of people hu take the mick ot of chavs!...jus like d addidas remix song!
so stoppin h8in her coz she is an amzin female WHITE rapper! n we shud giv her praise 4 dat n not a few downfalls she makes! cum on we aint al perfect!
Posted by: marie at March 22, 2007 07:37 PM
you try gettin a deal with def jam...n THEN u can talk
Posted by: katie at March 22, 2007 10:05 PM
Jeez, this is like a year old. Did we just hit a message board or something?
Posted by: Jeff K at March 23, 2007 02:32 AM
naaaa fam loow u dumb gash u tink u iz black raaaaa wayst gash kmt ur a dumb likkle gash
Posted by: LADY DANGER at March 23, 2007 05:47 AM
U WASTE GAsh
Posted by: CERISE at March 23, 2007 06:01 AM
When did the klingon language become acceptable for blog comments.
Posted by: Sebastian at March 23, 2007 12:22 PM
If, sight unseen, I told you about a SNL character such as LS, you'd probably think it was a stupid, gimicky joke aimed at a boorish audience. Knowing that she's real, what's the difference?
Posted by: Randall Monty at March 25, 2007 10:28 PM
ne1 hu is h8in on sov nds 2 gt a lyf! she myt nt b prfct bt hu is!?! i god dmn sure u aint man!
Posted by: Anonymous at April 3, 2007 12:46 PM
Yes! I thought this thread died down. Do British kids really talk in text message language now?
Posted by: Jeff K at April 3, 2007 12:51 PM
This is my favorite comment board! It's got charisma! And it totally makes me want to roll up one leg of my Fred Perry tracksuit and say things like "oi slut you startin or wha?"
Posted by: Koren Zailckas at April 3, 2007 02:27 PM
I know, the 1984 newspeak on that last one is doubleplusgood.
Posted by: Jeff K at April 3, 2007 03:54 PM
Oh snap! Jeff: fighting chavs with an Orwell
reference.
Posted by: Koren Zailckas at April 3, 2007 04:42 PM
Surely that truncated language takes more work than actually constructing words with proper grammar. The next generation of youth: nearly indecipherable and inefficient. Have we found where this is coming from?
Posted by: Keith at April 3, 2007 04:43 PM
Hey!! Lady Sov is totaly freagin AWESOME!! okay! The english accent makes it really cool i love her accent:P! plus her songs Rock! i liked rap / hiphop b4 but know it just got WAY better!
PeaCE!!!
Posted by: Jocelyne at April 7, 2007 10:07 PM
ohk, well you see the thing is. why bother "hating" on someone you've never met? maybe it's because if this is the type of person who people are going to be influenced by then i would much rather squash her out of the media scene. honestly, if people around me started acting like her and admiring the way she acts as though she doesn't care what anyone else thinks, then i would truly wish to kill myself. some people might say it's great that she doesn't think about others opnions but there is a difference between not caring and personal hygene. and frankly, deference of the latter disgusts me.
that is all.
Posted by: steph [100%] at April 11, 2007 08:27 AM
here here on the comment before this one.
lady soveriegn is rrrank and a fucking embarassment to all us girls here in england.
I just want to point out that she is definately the minority represantative.
Posted by: grace at April 11, 2007 08:29 AM
dude, it's just gross.
Posted by: adam at April 11, 2007 08:31 AM
i fink klady s iz rely kwl y wouldnt ppl like eR? shes gt her own style nd look at er! she rcks! wts the prob in bein diffrent? W_O_W!!
Posted by: ladysrocks at April 19, 2007 03:02 PM
Yes. It lives again!
Posted by: jeff at April 19, 2007 05:05 PM
She got a record deal so well done to her, other artists shudnt judge her, they should just focus on there own work. Especially Jay-Z who thinks he's some fucking God..without Beyonce next to him he's just another cheap ass rapper who looks like a gorilla...besides its about time we had some British artists on the scene..im sick of fuckin Americans tryin to make themselves look like gangsters when really there just a bunch of fags.
Posted by: Kyle at May 2, 2007 11:43 AM
ela é massa e ponto
Posted by: zeck at May 10, 2007 01:51 PM
TOP NEEKS
Posted by: poo at May 11, 2007 05:15 AM
lady sovereign is a great rapper, and yeah we aren't all perfect!!!
Posted by: Anonymous at May 11, 2007 03:14 PM
Somewhere I got lost in the translation of the unemployable attempting to make comments on Lady Sovereign's suckability.
Posted by: Kelli Douglas at May 14, 2007 01:37 PM
wtf is wrong wit yall..?she sings even better then u guys so stop bitching 'bout it man
Posted by: joanna at May 18, 2007 02:42 AM
lady sov sucks
Posted by: sovsux at May 18, 2007 06:52 AM
To be quite honest, i am no chav, rapper etc. myself but she i like her music. So stop being so fucked up, she has talent.
Posted by: Anonymous at May 30, 2007 02:02 PM
After a nuclear holocaust, all that will be left are Cher, cockroaches
and this comments thread.
Posted by: Koren Zailckas at May 31, 2007 11:30 AM
yo all of you guys r really mean... she has her own style and every1 does. some peoploe are loud, some act like bitches but really shes cool and is talented...
Posted by: Raquel at June 3, 2007 08:04 PM
all of yall r just stupid she is da shiz and yall need 2 quit hattin on her
Posted by: jones at June 19, 2007 09:33 PM
wowie, i think shes alright..love me or hate me has got da beat
Posted by: kait at June 20, 2007 05:18 PM
Ok, u guys really need to get a life if this is what you do with your time, i was looking for something and accedently got here, so if you guys just sit and make stupid comments to eachother, your lame and lazy, but i have to admit, lady sovereign is freakin awsome
Posted by: people please at June 29, 2007 01:13 AM
OK, will the next person who randomly comments here just please tell me where you came from (and I don't mean King's Cross or Bayswater)?
Posted by: Jeff K at June 29, 2007 09:51 AM
te kiero kulear kiero aser el amor kon tigo muajaj
Posted by: hector joaquin at July 2, 2007 06:38 PM
''love me or hate me its still an obsession
love me or hate me that is the question.
if you love me then thankyou
if you hate me then f*ck you''
Posted by: suz at February 2, 2008 03:34 AM
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