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Stephen Fry intersects with modern music
Newsbeat got Stephen Fry in to listen to some pop music and say what he thought.
He was, reliably, all high-court-judge-what-is-beatles about his task:
“I could lie, but I couldn't even say what it is. I don't know the names of anybody. I'm not interested,” he admitted. “There's someone called Adelia? Adalia?”They played him some Little Mix:
“Adele,” replied the interviewer. “Adele. I've heard of her,” he said.
As the English popsters sang the ‘sha-la-la-la, woo-ooo chorus’, the 58 year old asked: “Oh, they're not still singing ‘sha-la-la-la’ are they? It's got bits of Phil Spector right at the background through '70s bubblegum pop into a sort of modern version and it's a hideous, toxic compound. It's basically the musical equivalent of Haribo Starmix.”Actually, Stephen, that's not really an insult.
4 comments:
A man hurtling towards retirement age doesn't get pop music. I am also with you, comparing someone to Haribo Starmix is a compliment in my eyes.
The thing about that quote is that it's almost certainly apocryphal; as is now obvious to anyone with the relevant access, the Guardian *headline* "What is a Beatle?" - reporting a December 1963 court case which had something to do, I think, with one of the beat boom-era managers and his rights to certain work - is simply an impressionistic capture of the general vibe in court, not a direct quote.
One of the "toff" assumptions which most irritated me came when someone I once knew assumed that Stephen Fry only really knowing the pop music of his youth was a sign of his class. As if there weren't, and hadn't been, huge numbers of working-class people to whom that would also apply.
Can't say I warm to Haribo Starmix, though.
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