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| From | erhoek@comcast.net |
| Subject | Nellie McKay |
| Date | Thu, 01 Dec 2005 03:35:55 +0000 |
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Ouch! It sounds like a scene from the Wedding Singer.
-r
> From Defamer:
>
> Comparisons To Barbra Streisand Drive Nellie McKay To
> Nervous Breakdown
>
> A truly gifted singer/songwriter usually can convey emotion and
> inner life through a few simple chords and some heartfelt vocals.
> Sometimes, however, it requires a little more. A reader sends in
> this report from last night's Nellie McKay performance:
> Nellie McKay had a great show at the Troubadour [last night],
> but had a minor.actually, pretty severe on-stage meltdown near
> the beginning:
>
> "She was talking to the audience about the problems she's been
> having with Sony and someone shouted "Shut up and sing!" This
> seemed to touch a nerve with dear Nellie. After politely explaining
> to the miscreant that "If this continues with Sony, I will leave the
> music business, BITCH. And NEVER SING AGAIN," she started
> screaming and crying and "They say I'm just pulling a Barbra
> Streisand," and "You have NO IDEA WHAT I'M GOING
> THROUGH," and corporations are raping the world, etc. etc. As
> the audience, who had previously been laughing and hawing at
> everything she said, stood there in uncomfortable silence."
>
> http://www.defamer.com/
> (photo of Nellie here too)
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