Thursday 13 May 2010

One Female Black Singer At A Time Please We Are British!

I am shocked and concerned at the lack of black female singers in the UK at the moment. There are so many talented singers in the UK but they are not given any chance by the record industry because they dont fit the stereotype. The ones that are allowed to release records are mixed raced singers who dont speak oftern such as Leona and Corrine who are timid creatures with no backbone that dont pose a threat to mainstream white British media. Now come on now how can anyone consider Leonna Lewis black she has an essex accent looks like she crys every 5 minutes and instead of lashing out at that crazed fan who punched her she started screaming. A real black woman would have got up picked up her stilletos and started beating the so called 'fan'. Going back to my point one singer Alexandra Burke was given the priveledge of a record deal thanks to the Xfactor.The girl is very talented and her not winning or being passed through the next round at Xfactor would  have caused race riots as her talents speaks for itslef and she is pretty. You can see the judges knew how talented she was, but were not happy about a black girl from the hood getting all that fame and attention. The British music industry is closed industry as in they want to control who goes to number one who succeeds hence why there is so much crap in the radio. Due to the recession the industry had to listen to supply and demand and sign the grime artists that they so hated and tried to ruin their livelihoods, by banning any of their live concerts using the police. What has happned now is these grime artists are getting richer as they write and produce their own songs so most of the profits go to these inner city grime artists which must really annoy the record labels. Alexandra burke is representing for the the black female in the UK who are sick and tierd of seeing Jordan and cheryly cole on the magazines. Alex is not very much liked by the media they often write about her private life such as who she is dating how poor she used to be this is due to the lack of succesful black female singers in the UK, in order to be succeful you must not have an opinion be a doormat and must follow the crowd. Estelle who is doing very well in America often talks about her struggles in the UK how record bosses wanted to change everything about her from looks to her music, she felt unaccepted and not wanted. When somone is telling you everything about you is not right this must discourage a lot of black female singers from even trying. Estelle left the UK at the right time and has never looked back but most up and coming black singers do not have the opportunity to go to New York. You do then have those that try and impress the white record bosses and resort in wearing ridiculas outfits such as VV Brown. I do not for one minute think that girl wants that pathetic fringe no black person can walk down the street with that thing on their forhead and expect to live. Its disgusting how they forced that girl to make that ice cream quiff of hers her trademark, I dont see it catching on but this is the price she pays to be a singer. The record bosses also do not understand her voice is soulfull it does not go with the rock songs they are giving her, she sounds odd and looks odd she should be herself and tell them to wear socks with sandals if they wish. Whatever happened to the likes of Neneh Cherry she had so much attitude she doesnt seem the type to be told to wear one of the Queens guards hats, she has he rown style and rythem. We need more independant black female artists there is a world demand for the its just a shame there is no demand for them on their own home turf.

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