| Yahoo |
It's been a long time since we had a proper home-grown, female pop star. Amy Winehouse may have revived the chanteuse, "X-Factor" may have given us warbly Leona Lewis and 2009 may well be the year for smart ladies with keyboards and creative integrity. But proper, fun, frivolous chart-action from proper shiny, pin-up pop stars? It's all Britney and Gaga, and with adopted Brit Kylie currently flogging bed linen and next closest UK contender Sophie Ellis Bextor a perpetual nearly girl, there's an obvious vacancy. One Pixie Lott was seemingly genetically engineered to fill.As proof, the 18-year-old stage school graduate (all the best pop stars are) made chart history when the fabulously pouty fairground bounce of "Mama Do" became the first debut single from a British female artist to chart at Number One, without the aid of reality TV. More than that though, it was a gloriously instant statement of chorus-over-substance intent. As was follow-up, "Boys And Girls", a slick bubblegum dance track with just enough Christina Aguilera attitude to keep it the right side of throwaway and the wrong side of trashy....full text |
| Guardian |
| Daffy girl pop with just the teensiest bit of attitude, enough retro influences and the odd acceptable ballad. Legs longer than Tinchy Stryder won't hurt either....full text |
| Musicomh |
| There's a lot of talk about conveyor belts in pop music. It's a fairly straightforward metaphor, denoting mass production, identikit products and a sense that the item being reproduced isn't really involved in the process. Given the plethora of talent shows that reveal the mechanics behind it all too plainly, it's easy to see this conveyor belt analogy in even closer detail. Essex-born Pixie Lott, though not from a TV talent show and certainly not uninvolved in the writing process, seems to take it one stage further and appears to have been created from the DNA of other pop stars. The conveyor belt is not only working; this time it seems it's also attached to some Frankenstein-esque machinery. Pixie Lott (she was born as plain old Victoria, but Pixie is crushingly relevant) seems to have been created using strands of Duffy's hair, parts of Amy Winehouse's record collection and Britney Spears' (early) sweetness. This sense of focus-grouped precision extends to the album, which attempts to recreate the vintage pop of the '60s in a more diluted fashion than even Duffy could muster but also displays how modern it can be by using producers like RedOne, most famous for Lady GaGa's Poker Face and Just Dance singles....full text |
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It's been a long time since we had a proper home-grown, female pop star. Amy Winehouse may have revived the chanteuse, "X-Factor" may have given us warbly Leona Lewis and 2009 may well be the year for smart ladies with keyboards and creative integrity. But proper, fun, frivolous chart-action from proper shiny, pin-up pop stars? It's all Britney and Gaga, and with adopted Brit Kylie currently flogging bed linen and next closest UK contender Sophie Ellis Bextor a perpetual nearly girl, there's an obvious vacancy. One Pixie Lott was seemingly genetically engineered to fill.