Hot video.. but kind of a short song. She barely sings on it.

its actually the clean version of the song.

Thanks Estelle.

Song does nothing for me. Sexy video, though.

It's a reflection on how soul-sappingly unimaginative and conformist today's mainstream music scene is that an interesting artist that blew up ten years ago with a thoughtful protest to inspire urban youth has gradually been remoulded into the generic hypersexualised image every Black female singer is supposed to have nowadays. Just another Rihanna clone. Even the distinctive London twang's gradually been erased as she's taken on a generic mid-Atlantic tone for the world market. The lifelessness of the track just heightens the sense that we're all being fed mulchy mass-produced McMusic.



P.S. About that artwork: Mrs Slocombe called. She wants her pun back.
https://www.youtube.com/w...nmkX15AeN8

P.P.S. I'm also available for greetings card messages and motivational speeches.

[Edited 5/5/14 5:28am]

deebee said:

It's a reflection on how soul-sappingly unimaginative and conformist today's mainstream music scene is that an interesting artist that blew up ten years ago with a thoughtful protest to inspire urban youth has gradually been remoulded into the generic hypersexualised image every Black female singer is supposed to have nowadays. Just another Rihanna clone. Even the distinctive London twang's gradually been erased as she's taken on a generic mid-Atlantic tone for the world market. The lifelessness of the track just heightens the sense that we're all being fed mulchy mass-produced McMusic.



P.S. About that artwork: Mrs Slocombe called. She wants her pun back.
https://www.youtube.com/w...nmkX15AeN8

P.P.S. I'm also available for greetings card messages and motivational speeches.

[Edited 5/5/14 5:28am]

Tell us how you really feel.

TeeeeHaaaaHoooo said:

trau·ma·tize

ˈtrouməˌtīz,ˈtrô-/

verb

past tense: traumatized; past participle: traumatized

1. subject to lasting shock as a result of an emotionally disturbing experience or physical injury.

Thanks Estelle.

The word you were looking for was;

beau·ti·ful

[byoo-tuh-fuhl] Show IPA

deebee said:

It's a reflection on how soul-sappingly unimaginative and conformist today's mainstream music scene is that an interesting artist that blew up ten years ago with a thoughtful protest to inspire urban youth has gradually been remoulded into the generic hypersexualised image every Black female singer is supposed to have nowadays. Just another Rihanna clone. Even the distinctive London twang's gradually been erased as she's taken on a generic mid-Atlantic tone for the world market. The lifelessness of the track just heightens the sense that we're all being fed mulchy mass-produced McMusic.



P.S. About that artwork: Mrs Slocombe called. She wants her pun back.
https://www.youtube.com/w...nmkX15AeN8

P.P.S. I'm also available for greetings card messages and motivational speeches.

[Edited 5/5/14 5:28am]

I agree with you in the sense that it is so far removed from her original incarnation as an artist to the point of being contradictory. I do also believe all artists should be allowed to grow. But the notion that all artists instinctively grow and move towards overt hypersexualisation is a pure corporate advertising dream, a manufactured one.

That all said, the video was beautiful and aesthetically revolutionary in the context of this manufactured corporate advertising dream.

[Edited 5/8/14 21:59pm]

hausofmoi7 said:

TeeeeHaaaaHoooo said:

trau·ma·tize

ˈtrouməˌtīz,ˈtrô-/

verb

past tense: traumatized; past participle: traumatized

1. subject to lasting shock as a result of an emotionally disturbing experience or physical injury.

Thanks Estelle.

The word you were looking for was;

beau·ti·ful

[byoo-tuh-fuhl] Show IPA

adjective

1.

having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about,etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.

2.

excellent of its kind: a beautiful putt on the seventh hole; The chef served us a beautiful roast of beef.

3.

wonderful; very pleasing or satisfying.

hausofmoi7 said:

I do also believe all artists should be allowed to grow. But the notion that all artists instinctively grow and move towards overt hypersexualisation is a pure corporate advertising dream, a manufactured one.

Signature worthy. This era is TERRIBLE for this.

I don't consider becoming a sex symbol "growth". It's generic and boring.