Sophie's Choice
- 24 May 07, 11:39 AM
On the upcoming Saturday Magazine show on Radio Ulster, I΅―ll be talking through new album releases from Jeff Buckley, Candi Payne, and Sophie Ellis Bextor. It΅―s the tenth anniversary of Jeff΅―s death, so a collection called ΅®So Real΅― is a welcome collection of favourites and rare stuff. Candi Payne has brothers that have served in Liverpool acts The Zutons and The Stands and like many people from that city, she knows her pop history so well.
So what to we say about Sophie? Like many others I΅―m rather indifferent about the music. Visually, she΅―s still remarkable, with the big legs and the angular head. She΅―s not as sexy as the cameras want her to be but neither would I share Robbie Williams΅― view that she has a face like a satellite dish.
Actually, I take much of my Ellis Bextor negativity from something that her mother made. Janet Ellis, of course, was a Blue Peter presenter and for some extra income, she made a video full of nursery songs. This in itself was no bad thing, and as a new parent, I was keen for my children to receive a bit of extra musical stimulation.
But ΅®A Day Full Of Songs΅― was a horror show. Cheap filming , grim choreography and duff arrangements. But the worst of all was Janet΅―s voice. Tuneless and braying and lacking in any conventional rhythm. For some reason my kinds watched this all the time. And so when Sophie arrived on the scene, I realised what she must have endured as an infant. And perhaps this explains why she too has a rum sensibility: tuneless and braying and lacking in any conventional rhythm.
Must our future generations also suffer?
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