i posted this on another site well worth the read

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just read the free metro

corrine bailey ray is interviewed about her success in uk us and her mobo nominations

i commend her honesty

she tells the interviewer joss stone is not urban and breaks dows the meaning of urban on the real

she also explains what black music is and its impact on the music scene

here is a link to the story

http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/intervie...;in_page_id=11

You’re up for three Mobos - are you urban enough?
That points to the assumption that all black music has to be urban and that’s a really ignorant way of thinking about black music. Black people and black music have affected all popular music of the 20th century, from jazz to soul to hip hop to reggae to pop. There’s been a Motown-influenced song in the charts every single year since 1960 so that’s quite an ignorant question. There’s not a direct link between being black and being ‘urban’. Being urban is about being quite poor and living in a rough area of town and there are a lot of black people who aren’t poor or urban and aren’t into grime who have different musical experiences.
ive included a snippet but well worth reading the full interview justclick on the link above

Corrine may have wanted to talk sense but hasn't as far as I can see..

"Urban" does not mean poor...it's simply a city , a condensed one,less vegetated areas...newyork,london are urnan cities...so her monologue about black people and urban is totally lost on me..

i totally understand her

she spoke in context

black music has falsely been given the the name urban as a ploy to market it to white people. it sfails to recognise that black music is not one genre but many, most popular acts of today are black music inspired or simply carbon copies

so lets be real

Each to their own obviously...

Just cos I don't agree with you doesn't make me less "real"

Peace..

Corinne "Dry Girl" Bailey Rae again................. why does she keep popping up everywhere? Call me cynical but looks like her PR team are well and truely doing their jobs. Now can she go back into the fields of Gloucestershire and concentrate on bike riding and berry picking, or something!

But really, her songs are dry, her album is dry and what she has to say is even dryer

LadyDay wrote: Wecan wax lyrical about what the word 'urban' means until the cows come home, but I can't see there is much arguing with the points being made in the snippet from her interview, especially the last bit underlined. Can you?

Surelywhat ever you think of her music or her as an artist should not detract from the relevance of her comments? You either agree or don't agree with her comments. What has how you feel about her music got to do with it? confused3

Respect

Let me see if I care about her and her comments........................................ uh no.

It's all so dry - and not exactly radical.

1_Princess_Blak wrote: I get where you're coming from, she isn't the first person to say such things but at the same time no one else in that industry is saying anything at the moment. It seems as though they are all happy being lumped into one 'Urban' mass-as long as they are getting paid. To be honest, I am actually surprised that she spoke on it.

lol @ 'dry'. I have her album and I think it is decent...it's slow, laidback and her voice is unusual but I like it. Too much bhangra and noise about these days.

She ain't really nothing to write home about. There'll be a new Corrine Bailey this time next year.

His Realness wrote:


There already is one....Lily Allen who is to music what norah jones was to jazz...overrated and "commercial"