(01-28-2013, 11:53 PM)midnightblues Wrote: Producers and record companies are looking for unique acts original acts and that holds a lot of water.
That's not what I've seen...'cookie cutter' comes to mind with a lot of pop acts that are big....
Ever heard "looking for the next 'Bieber'"?
(01-28-2013, 11:53 PM)midnightblues Wrote: The boy and his act are stuck back in the 80s there is nothing original about him jumping around stage it's been done before by so many big hair metal bands
As far as James' performance style, remember when the NY Times critic made this glib comment about Haley @ Carnegie?
Quote:And speaking of “Idol,” here too was Haley Reinhart, belting the blues in her precocious-child voice, and warbling “God Bless the Child” in a glib evocation of Billie Holiday, as seen on TV.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/10/arts/m....html?_r=0
Every artist draws from their influences, so if you say that about James' performance style, it's not unlike the critic mocking Haley for her 'evocation' of one of her Idols, and Billy Holiday was decades before Hair bands.