tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post1073008238033109058..comments2024-03-28T09:33:26.444+00:00Comments on No Rock And Roll Fun: Stoned at homeSimon Hayes Budgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07084524317888577404noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-18280655688273065132007-11-14T17:46:00.000+00:002007-11-14T17:46:00.000+00:00I think a 21st century 'Unhalfbricking' (or even a...I think a 21st century 'Unhalfbricking' (or even a 'Liege and Lief') would be better. Not that she'd be capable of it, of course (indeed, the only people who would would be bohemians from middle-class parts of London - that was the case even in the 1920s).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-85041726195355288702007-11-14T16:18:00.000+00:002007-11-14T16:18:00.000+00:00Poor old Joss forgot that us Brits don't take kind...Poor old Joss forgot that us Brits don't take kindly to people who forget their roots. Maybe a nice cover version of 'Jenny from the Block' ('Jossy from the Farm (The Ooh-arr Song)') would work?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-86328067773032111372007-11-14T12:44:00.000+00:002007-11-14T12:44:00.000+00:00Indeed it is. Not that that makes it any better.T...Indeed it is. Not that that makes it any better.<BR/><BR/>This is, still, What It's All About: http://robincarmody.livejournal.com/48872.html<BR/><BR/>Good to see that she's honest about her voice, though. But, as I said, people would accept that mid-Atlantic accent if she was from Hertfordshire or Essex. Plenty of people who ridicule her for it themselves have accents leaning that way - it's just that it doesn't fit with the Devon they recall from childhood holidays.<BR/><BR/>She is a victim of Britain's strange determination to promote Heritage at the exact same time as promoting pop culture as God (indeed, Heritage began as a means of keeping old Tories from realising precisely how pro-pop-culture Thatcherism was in practice, if not in theory). Mind you, she deserves it, because she's *crap*.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-29972296944518196812007-11-14T11:25:00.000+00:002007-11-14T11:25:00.000+00:00I think it's her third album...I think it's her third album...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com