In light in Duffy's retirement from the music business this leads me into discussion has the Female British Invasion ended.

I don't know if you guys know that but music critics have dubbed the Female British Invasion to represent women who come from UK and crossover into the US music mainstream world. Which started in 2003 and contintued the rest of the 2000's decade.

The most prominent women from this era was Joss Stone who people consider to be the first and what critics dubbed her as the hybrid of Janis Joplin and Aretha Franklin her Mind, Body and Soul album did very well on the charts and she was pushed to become the next Big artist and then Amy Winehouse was Back to Basics became a huge sucess in 2007 who was comapred to Etta James and Sarah Vaughn.

Joss and Amy are probably the most sucessful because they have successfully blended old school R&B soul with modern day pop. Amy somewhat surpassed Joss due to her trend setter style rocking the Ronette beehive but her song Rehab has been considered a modern day classic.

Natasha Bedingfield another British Invasion some people would not count her as such because she is from New Zealaand. Had some sucess in the charts with songs like These Words and Unwritten. Lily Allen who could not maintain her popularity in the US but is still a big deal in other parts of the world.

After Amy came an influx of other British singers like Leona Lewis compared to Mariah and Celine,

Duffy compared to Lulu and Dusty Springfield who has mixed retro R&B sounds to modern day pop music. Mercy was considered to be her biggest hit,

Adele who was the latest of the craz but also the most overlooked maybe because her look did not fit the pop music appeal but she has developed the most success in a underground musc basis.

With the excpetion of Leona all these women have fallen off the wagon in terms of popularity. Joss Stone's controversey with Britain led to her decline and Amy Winehouse drugged lifestyle, Lule retiring from the music business and Adele who still maintains an underground fanbase.

Leona is still the only one who has not fallen off the wagon just yet but it is going to be difficult for her to hang with great vocalists like Christina and Jennifer.

Has the female British Invasion era ende

I just don't consider within the same class as the other's. She's a modern day Michael Bolton, faking the soul all the way to the bank.

You mean Duffy?

Duffy wasn't making the type of soul music as it's known in the US, but rather the UK variant of the style that fused together African-American music and British pop music of the time. I disliked her at first, but then gave those recordings a listen due to being interested in how they were recorded (produced / mixed / engineered). I learned to like the music itself in the process as well.

The biggest reason why her second album didn't sell well must have been how her singing style changed. I guess to most ears she sounds just odd these days.

neoretro7 said:

In light in Duffy's retirement from the music business this leads me into discussion has the Female British Invasion ended.

I don't know if you guys know that but music critics have dubbed the Female British Invasion to represent women who come from UK and crossover into the US music mainstream world. Which started in 2003 and contintued the rest of the 2000's decade.

The most prominent women from this era was Joss Stone who people consider to be the first and what critics dubbed her as the hybrid of Janis Joplin and Aretha Franklin her Mind, Body and Soul album did very well on the charts and she was pushed to become the next Big artist and then Amy Winehouse was Back to Basics became a huge sucess in 2007 who was comapred to Etta James and Sarah Vaughn.

Joss and Amy are probably the most sucessful because they have successfully blended old school R&B soul with modern day pop. Amy somewhat surpassed Joss due to her trend setter style rocking the Ronette beehive but her song Rehab has been considered a modern day classic.

Natasha Bedingfield another British Invasion some people would not count her as such because she is from New Zealaand. Had some sucess in the charts with songs like These Words and Unwritten. Lily Allen who could not maintain her popularity in the US but is still a big deal in other parts of the world.

After Amy came an influx of other British singers like Leona Lewis compared to Mariah and Celine,

Duffy compared to Lulu and Dusty Springfield who has mixed retro R&B sounds to modern day pop music. Mercy was considered to be her biggest hit,

Adele who was the latest of the craz but also the most overlooked maybe because her look did not fit the pop music appeal but she has developed the most success in a underground musc basis.

With the excpetion of Leona all these women have fallen off the wagon in terms of popularity. Joss Stone's controversey with Britain led to her decline and Amy Winehouse drugged lifestyle, Lule retiring from the music business and Adele who still maintains an underground fanbase.

Leona is still the only one who has not fallen off the wagon just yet but it is going to be difficult for her to hang with great vocalists like Christina and Jennifer.

Has the female British Invasion era ende

Until The Spice Girls (minus Victoria AKA Posh Spice) released a new album in 2012, the female side of the British Invasion is on serious pause.

Duffy....talented but her warbling seriously winds me up (hold your notes love!). Joss Stone, where to start in the ways she gets on my nerves...too many to mention! Adele, Lily Allen wannabe, which has to be a new low for any singer!

Ellie Goulding is the only one I'm keeping an eye on, and maybe Winehouse if she sorts herself out...

joss stone is SO soulful

if you consider soul to be"jazz for cofee lovers"

i think id even prefer michael bolton'

?love cleverly made a quick buck of her middle class british ass

you digging on me love? are you? no thanks-fuck off! and take your awful cod plastic "vibes' with you

oh and put your fuckin shoes on-it doesnt make you more"real"

Um Duffy retired? What is she, royalty? She has no laurels to rest on, in fact, she has nothing. What's she gonna do for money?

Isn't Adele about debut at #1 on the billboard top 200 with an estimated 300k being sold of softmore album "21"?

Duffy's record sold over 4 millions copies, her singles were played a lot on radio / tv, she did live gigs and also had some sort of a sponsorship deal. The money she's made won't probably allow a luxurious lifestyle for ages, but for "normal life" it could cover the expenses for a very long time.

mancabdriver said:

Isn't Adele about debut at #1 on the billboard top 200 with an estimated 300k being sold of softmore album "21"?

Yeah, and she's been Number 1 in the UK album charts for the last month with 2 albums and singles in both the Top 5 each here, the first time since The Beatles. Very "underground".

Um Adele has just outdone every other girl mentioned on this thread.

Jessie J is being hyped up and the record industry is really gonna push her states side soon.

Cheryl Cole is trying to budge her way into the U.S. via X factor and Leona Lewis is preping a Dubstep album to fit into the U.S. party scene.

Florence + The Machine even had a Top 40 hit with Dog days are over.

The Female British invasion isn't over, its just changing face.

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I thought Adele is be very succesfull in the US. Her 21 album is very succesfull in Europe.

On Adele alone, i wouldn't say the female britisch invasion is over.

Ellie said:

mancabdriver said:

Isn't Adele about debut at #1 on the billboard top 200 with an estimated 300k being sold of softmore album "21"?

Yeah, and she's been Number 1 in the UK album charts for the last month with 2 albums and singles in both the Top 5 each here, the first time since The Beatles. Very "underground".

Great! I DO plan to buy her album. I heard a few of her songs and I'm falling in love with her music and that voice.

To be honest though....Keep it over there, and thats not a shot at the UK thats a shot at us, we seem to poison everything that comes over here. Cheryl Cole of Girls Aloud does great UK female pop but as soon as America wants her, they have to "slap a rapper on her" Will i am was for her, the result, lame pop sound. The HOT girl group the Saturdays, one of the best things in the UK, there was talk of them releasing something here......but guess what, they remixed the song and out FLO-RIDA on it WHY WHY WHY??? God we are so lame with the ideas already! So my vote, stay over there, dont release it here, we only will have to pair you up with Lil Wayne or Drake etc...

lastdecember said:

To be honest though....Keep it over there, and thats not a shot at the UK thats a shot at us, we seem to poison everything that comes over here. Cheryl Cole of Girls Aloud does great UK female pop but as soon as America wants her, they have to "slap a rapper on her" Will i am was for her, the result, lame pop sound. The HOT girl group the Saturdays, one of the best things in the UK, there was talk of them releasing something here......but guess what, they remixed the song and out FLO-RIDA on it WHY WHY WHY??? God we are so lame with the ideas already! So my vote, stay over there, dont release it here, we only will have to pair you up with Lil Wayne or Drake etc...

That's why I'm glad that hasn't happened to Adele...yet.

It's not over - Jessie J...

lastdecember said:

To be honest though....Keep it over there, and thats not a shot at the UK thats a shot at us, we seem to poison everything that comes over here. Cheryl Cole of Girls Aloud does great UK female pop but as soon as America wants her, they have to "slap a rapper on her" Will i am was for her, the result, lame pop sound. The HOT girl group the Saturdays, one of the best things in the UK, there was talk of them releasing something here......but guess what, they remixed the song and out FLO-RIDA on it WHY WHY WHY??? God we are so lame with the ideas already! So my vote, stay over there, dont release it here, we only will have to pair you up with Lil Wayne or Drake etc...

That is SO refreshing to here from someone your side of the pond.

I totally agree. A lot of Uk artists suck to the America sound. Its almost as if they feel they have to break America.