Originally Posted by Bob Cushing
For once talent and substance wins out over hype and popularity.


Wow I guess I asked on the wrong forum lol.

I'm getting a lot of 'she's pretty and talented so she should have one, yet, I will not buy her album or actually judge her music'.

This afternoon my wife and brother did a listening session and compared it back to back with Norah Jones. The overall opinion was that Spalding had a very 'messy' style that went no where and caused confusion. Melody was not there at all. Vocals were not unique. Whole album sounded like it was made in an hour with scratched lyrics. Actually, there aren't even any lyrics until like the 5th song.

My wife after 2 songs said she couldn't listen to it anymore.

I know a lot here are string musicians and see her as some sort of colleague, but as music fans ourselves, we definitely agreed Norah Jones trumped out Spalding to the point where they could not even be compared on the same playing field.

Actually let me say this, the people in this very thread (in my opinion) write better music than Spalding.

In conclusion and considering her Berkley ties and White House affiliations and considering the political lobbying of the academy, I have to say she was awarded as a political symbol, not for actual merit.

And yeah you should have seen the Bieber fans on Twitter last night. WOW.. they were going NUTS. Death threats. They couldn't believe it. I turned around to say a few sentences to my wife, turned back to the computer. It said '496 new tweets'. That's how INSANE it was. Man the Beiber fans can form an army lol..

Ok I just found a video of twitter when Beiber lost.. lol hillarious http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQP_xhAu4Jg


Last edited by HypeTingSTudios; 02/15/11 12:52 AM.
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