Leaving my liking for Folk music out of this thread, quite often when I'm home and want some background music without having to actively choose an album, I'll often switch 4Music or TMF on. I'm finding that there are quite a few artists there that I'm really quite enjoying, despite People Who Know Music telling me I shouldn't.
Pink: I've always kind of liked her stuff - I've even got
M!zzunderstood. Her early stuff was full of energy (though not as powerful an energy as Dame Shirley's rendition of
Get this party started) but also conveyed a melacholic edge (
Family Portrait and
Just Like a Pill). She's really developed something unique now, with songs like
Stupid Girls and
So What? being full of humour (and that's before you even start watching the videos, which are hillarious), as well as having a great sound.
Katy Perry: Apparently I'm not supposed to like her stuff. Apparently the faux-lesbianism is, like, so exploitative, y'know? Well,
yes, that's the whole point of the song! But it's cheery little cheesy pop songs which are great to bounce up-and-down to if you're washing up.
Lilly bloody Allen: couldn't stand her old stuff. The stuff that absolutely every critic described as "deliciously wickedly subversive" which I assume is a euphamism for "spouts a lot of boring sh!te in a whining Mockney out-of-key tuneless monologue." But her latest single in which she has apparently sold out and become something approaching mainstream (a Bad Thing)
actually contains something resembling a tune!
She's almost tolerable!
So who else shouldn't I be liking, so I can know who else to add to my album collection?