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JamiroquainPt
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Interview in Contact Music
Interview in ContactMusic:
http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/jay-kay-unfulfilled-by-pop-music_1180680
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Jamiroquai singer Jay Kay has blasted modern pop music and Lady Gaga, saying he quit the music industry because stars were manipulated by record labels.
Jamiroquai singer Jay Kay quit the music industry because stars were manipulated by record labels.
The singer said he found being a pop star "unfulfilling" by the time he left music behind in 2006, and said his group can't be compared to stars like Lady Gaga, who he sees as a "money making freak".
He said: "Lady Gaga is a money-making freak for her label. Jamiroquai are not like that. We do music, not marketing.
"I left because I was finding the job unfulfilling. I was tired of going onto kids' TV programmes to promote myself. We're a proper, jamming band. That's why we're called Jam-iroquai!"
He also said modern pop music doesn't connect with him in the way he imagines music should.
Jay, 40, added to the Daily Mail newspaper: "Music should have a flavour to it and I don't think a lot of what's going on today has that,' he says, choosing his words carefully. I listened to the top five songs recently and they did nothing for me."
Jay - who has sold over 25 million records in his career - also denied he is now staging a comeback, with his new album 'Rock Dust Light Star' saying he only makes music because of the buzz he gets from it.
He said: "This is in my blood. Money doesn't come into it. I get a buzz from writing songs."
'Rock Dust Light Star' is available now. |
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msammon
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 07:58 |
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I hate how magazines or reviews say they have interviews with jay and it appears as quotes taken from a PR file or other actual interviews as this was seems it was |
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ragadoodles
Joined: 06 Sep 2005
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Location: Germany
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 22:39 |
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what a silly bullshit....come on..."making music because the buzz."
The buzz don´t pay his cars,his house,his heli and certainley not payed the drugs in the past.
He makes a lot of money,that´s okay enjoy it , but stand to it.
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Jamalgerie
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Location: Cardiff
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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 00:54 |
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He is right.Look at the state of the music industry now. More focus is paid to appearence rather than the musical content. Apart from Rock Dust Light Star and Incognito's new album, I have not heard one good song in the last four years. Trashy pop bands dominate the scene now and it makes me sad.Bands of the calibre of Jamiroquai and Incognito are virtually non existent now, and Jay knows that
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Gonza-Arg
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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 01:56 |
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| Jamalgerie wrote: |
| Apart from Rock Dust Light Star and Incognito's new album, I have not heard one good song in the last four years. |
well, I don't think so, a lot of amazing albums have been released in the last 4 years... eg: Fleet Foxes' self-titled debut album, Radiohead's "In Rainbows", the amazing "River" by Herbie Hancock, Eddie Vedder's "Into The Wild" (his first solo album), "Electric Arguments" by The Firemen (Paul McCartney and a producer whose name I forgot), Jamie Cullum's "The Pursuit", Corinne Bailey Rae's "The Sea", or Pearl Jam's "Backspacer"...
Those are, in my opinion, great albums, real music, and even though most of these bands/artists are "mainstream", their music is still fantastic.. |
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