I had another inspection of the Liverpool Sound City guide, and discovered the most inappropriate sentence under the blurb for London folky-dolky Florence & The Machine:
'She also has almost as much stage presence as Hitler'.
Honestly. Who thought that was an acceptable use of language? And one mention of Adolf apparently wasn't enough, as it continues:
'She's like a funny, sexy popstar Hitler without the despotism and with more beautiful songs and the utmost love and respect for Jews and gays and gypsies.'
There are some words I don't think belong as adjectives in music writing (such as anorexic or schizophrenic), but using such a feared dictator in a simile is just wrong. Mitigating it with the 'respect for Jews and gays and gypsies' does not make this even slightly OK. It's not even constructed elegantly: there are five uses of 'and'.
I hope it's a fan-written ode copy-and-pasted from her MySpace blog. It must be, right?
Friday 16 May 2008
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