Singer Joss Stone is not too fond of fellow British singer Lily Allen. In fact, in a recent interview, Joss pegs Lily, who has campaigned to criminalize internet file sharing, as a "personality" and not a singer.
She needs to sell records because she’s not a singer, and that’s not an offense to her because I think that she knows that too. I think she’s a performer and she’s more of a personality than she is a singer. But I think when musicians are really making real music people come to the show and that’s what we make our money from, from playing live. And I think it’s probably harder for an artist like Lily and any other pop acts. It’s really about the track and about their personality and their celebrity and that’s how they make their money is selling those records. So the downloads – she’s not going to win that fight. None of us will win that fight. So let’s just accept it and let’s see it as something that can be beautiful and it might change music for the better. It might sort the weeds from the flowers. Who said that musicians have to be millionaires? Who made this a rule? We don’t need that much money. We just don’t. We only need enough to make music and to eat and to go on tour.”source
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If she wants to 'share her music' that's her business. why she wants everyone else to give away theirs is beyond me. i'm not crazy about either of these singers but respect the fact that they both record and tour and work hard. why joss stone ("the one lick wonder" - as she's known in my circle of working musicians) feels the need to belittle someone else is not beyond me though.. she's got a new album coming out right about now and probably wants to get a buzz going. she picked someone who outsells her by a long shot too. coincidence? perhaps.. not. also, it's funny that someone who claims "musicians don't need to be millionaires" is making 7.5 million on the contract for this new CD. Her hypocritical attitude makes me question the sincerity of her persona, style and music. She's more ego than substance.
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