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"Tea and Toast " is one of the Most Depressing Songs i have Ever Heard
Lucy Spraggans song Tea and Toast if you listen to the Lyrics is one of the most depressing song i have ever heard . it wallows in dark miserable images of working class life, The Song could be summed up in these words " Life is Sh-t and Then You Die" .
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Same as Ed Sheeran's "A Team" then.
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It's is vaguely Multi Python in the relentless bad luck and tragedy that befall the main character in the song, But unlike Python its done in all seriousness ,. If i met Lucy today i'd say "Cheer up love, have a biscuit this toast is doing you no good at all ". She should stay away from subjects like this, Don't know anybody in the music industry who made money from peddling songs about relentless misery and bad luck . The song is cleverly written but if you listen to it to often it would drive you to Drink or Worse
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Don't know anybody in the music industry who made money from peddling songs about relentless misery and bad luck . The song is cleverly written but if you listen to it to often it would drive you to Drink or Worse
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Yeah. She should sing jolly stuff like Morrisey.
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Yeah. She should sing jolly stuff like Morrisey.
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I love it
I actually find in between the beginning and end points of the deaths of his mother and wife, there's a lot about how beautiful life is, even though the man in the song obviously had a very simple life. And the chorus I think represents how even when life is at its lowest points, with love, it'll always get better.
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I love it
I actually find in between the beginning and end points of the deaths of his mother and wife, there's a lot about how beautiful life is, even though the man in the song obviously had a very simple life. And the chorus I think represents how even when life is at its lowest points, with love, it'll always get better. |
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I love it
I actually find in between the beginning and end points of the deaths of his mother and wife, there's a lot about how beautiful life is, even though the man in the song obviously had a very simple life. And the chorus I think represents how even when life is at its lowest points, with love, it'll always get better.Well, that's my two-penn'orth. Defending Lucy against a charge of being too depressing makes a nice enough change from defending her against being just a comedian. She writes songs about life as she sees it, sometimes the funny or embarrassing details, sometimes stuff that goes wrong, sometimes trying to take in the whole picture. All seems pretty reasonable to me
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There's no doubt that she is a talented songwriter, but I still don't see how she fits into the show. Surely her biggest selling point as an artist would be that she's a "credible musician", something that being on the show will rob her of a little?
Tea and Toast is a beautiful song though. |
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By the by, bet they edit out the depressing parts of this song on tonights show
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By the by, bet they edit out the depressing parts of this song on tonights show
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Surely her biggest selling point as an artist would be that she's a "credible musician", something that being on the show will rob her of a little?
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By the by, bet they edit out the depressing parts of this song on tonights show
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Why is it that X Factor contestants MUST be able to sing Britney, Take That, or Adele songs to be on the show?! Surely someone who writes their own stuff and has their own unique style is better that an Adele impersonator?!
Course she fits into the show. I think it's wrong that they have 'Britney' weeks and things like that because some people can't sing Britney. |
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I've a feeling everyone is going to be raving about her after tonight's show and saying how original and what a talent she is.
But it will be very hard to sustain this on the live shows : there is a limit to how often she will be able to wow the viewers. |
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I've a feeling everyone is going to be raving about her after tonight's show and saying how original and what a talent she is.
But it will be very hard to sustain this on the live shows : there is a limit to how often she will be able to wow the viewers. |
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It's is vaguely Multi Python in the relentless bad luck and tragedy that befall the main character in the song, But unlike Python its done in all seriousness ,. If i met Lucy today i'd say "Cheer up love, have a biscuit this toast is doing you no good at all ". She should stay away from subjects like this, Don't know anybody in the music industry who made money from peddling songs about relentless misery and bad luck . The song is cleverly written but if you listen to it to often it would drive you to Drink or Worse
You've evidently never heard ANY blues songs then, or Leonard Cohen, Radiohead, Nick Cave, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, Joy Division, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits. Admittedly, the pop charts are not exactly full of these artists, but they've all had very long and successfuil careers, long after the flavour of the month happy clappy artists have faded into obscurity.I don't think X factor is the right show for Lucy Spraggans though. She's a proper artist and won't shine unless she's performing her own material. |
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The only thing unique about Lucy Spraggan's style is that she's a girl who shops at Jacamo.
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Bit of an exaggeration there
You've evidently never heard ANY blues songs then, or Leonard Cohen, Radiohead, Nick Cave, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, Joy Division, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits. Admittedly, the pop charts are not exactly full of these artists, but they've all had very long and successfuil careers, long after the flavour of the month happy clappy artists have faded into obscurity.I don't think X factor is the right show for Lucy Spraggans though. She's a proper artist and won't shine unless she's performing her own material. |
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I own Dylan ,Cohen and Tom Watts cds . Lucy don't quite have the talent of those guys to carry off what she may have being trying to do and it ends up being more the " Miseries " than the " Blues " . I see her as a Billy Bragg wannabe
"No one makes money from writing songs about misery." "Oh wait, no, people do. I know that. Duh. But Lucy can't because she doesn't have the talent." I think you've illustrated you're not a Lucy fan by now to be honest... |
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Thing is, those comparisons are a bit odd because she hasn't shown us any introspective gloom yet, just a few quite optimistically delivered songs about various aspects of life, which don't always follow the usual templates of being about fancying someone or getting together or being dumped or cheated on or having it all or... oh, I'm sure there are a few more subjects if I could be bothered to think of 'em...
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if Lucy really wants to write songs about hard times, but in a way that people can still listen to over and over again she should listen to Kris Kristofferson
( 1 ) Help me make it through the night ( 2) For the good times ( 3) Sunday morning coming down ( 4 ) Me and Bobby McGee |
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if Lucy really wants to write songs about hard times, but in a way that people can still listen to over and over again she should listen to Kris Kristofferson
( 1 ) Help me make it through the night ( 2) For the good times ( 3) Sunday morning coming down ( 4 ) Me and Bobby McGee I'd rather Lucy Spraggan carried on being Lucy Spraggan. Not everyone's going to like what she does. |
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This is how it should be done http://youtu.be/-axr23-WP0E
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I actually find in between the beginning and end points of the deaths of his mother and wife, there's a lot about how beautiful life is, even though the man in the song obviously had a very simple life. And the chorus I think represents how even when life is at its lowest points, with love, it'll always get better.
