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| Guardian |
 VV Brown's debut album opens with a drum roll followed by a fingers-caught-in-door yelp, which gives you an idea of what you're in for: theatricality and flamboyance that make Mika seem introverted. One of the artists tipped in the BBC's Sound of 2009 poll, Brown is a singular character who refuses to be constrained by received notions of how a black female singer should sound. She nimbly skips from 60s girl-group romping (Quick Fix) to Sandie Shaw-inspired melodrama (Back in Time) to pumped-up powerpop (Crying Blood) to rockabilly (LOVE) and sounds entirely assured all the way through. The sole constant is her rancour toward the ex-boyfriend who inspired the songs, an example being the sentiments expressed on Leave!: "The one you love is a fool, you don't realise/ When will you wake up?" Interesting question – if she were any more awake she would explode, but Brown's effervescence is her major selling point....full text |
| Yahoo |
| VV Brown doesn't eat eggs 'cos they're basically like chicken periods, yeah? When's she's asked by fans for her autograph, she'll ask them for theirs too - she hopes to exhibit them all one day at a show. Amazing! She's gorgeous at six ft tall and perma-clad in natty vintage gear. She's the latest UK female pop artist to be foisted upon the public as a 'personality' and you'll excuse us while we stifle a yawn. But far from being the ditzy dullard you might expect, VV Brown is also a girl who knows too well the value of saying no - to university places at Oxford and LSE, hot shot producers in LA and preening exes alike. She even said no to P Diddy, when she chose to sign with Capitol in the US over the yacht-hop mogul's own Bad Boy imprint. It's precisely this resolve which has steered her through choppy emotional waters and paradoxically allowed her debut to sound like one long affirmation. Born Vanessa Brown to West Indian parents in Northampton in 1983, 'VV' (her own moniker) quickly established herself as a precocious child, turning down university places aged 17 after gaining four As at A-level to pursue her music in London....full text |
| Musicomh |
| Does anyone remember those halcyon days when a new act could release his or her debut album to minimum fuss? Perhaps they'd release a single or two and eventually people would come onboard and that album would start to climb the charts and lo and behold, a new pop star was born? It's a distant memory for most in these hectic times of packed release schedules, 'taster' singles, suffocating hype, blogs and lists proclaiming X to be better then Y. Much vaunted Northampton born Vanessa Brown, aka V.V. Brown, is a strange mix of the old and the new way, in as much as she's been around the musical block a few times and yet her debut album, Travelling Like The Light, has been delayed and delayed, ramping up the pressure before she's even had the chance to begin a career. A previous attempt at making an album in America was reportedly curtailed due to Brown changing her sound, whilst songwriting credits for the likes of Sugababes and Pussycat Dolls have honed her pop nous. Strangely, despite support from various music websites, magazines, broadsheets and a spot on Later With Jools Holland, Brown has yet to really make an impact on radio, or more specifically on Radio 1, where current single, Shark In The Water, is nowhere near their playlist. Her first two singles failed to chart altogether....full text |
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