I suspect
that hating this music makes me a mean and black-hearted person. I've got to be
me.
Helen
Austin has won a Juno Aware and a John Lennon songwriting contest, and her
music gets used in television shows and things, so clearly other people see merit
I don't. For me it cloys.
I liked her
earlier music better. I didn't love it, but at some point after 2009,
everything became more twee. That may work better as a niche, because then you
have the children's market, but then there is too much of it. There is an album
every year, and each album has lots of tracks, and while any one song might be
harmless put together they aggravate me.
I get how
they are supposed to work. Take the song "Underneath My Bed":
It is
taking a common childhood fear, and making it funny and about friendship. That
seems positive. The video is pretty well done with simple animation. Other
videos incorporate toys and children and drawings. Many people would find it
charming. There is probably nothing wrong with finding it charming. But the
high voice, repetitiveness, and relentless preciousness somehow builds into a
perfect storm of hatred for me.
If a song
about how being yourself is great, so always be yourself unless you can be a
unicorn, then be a unicorn, sounds like your kind of thing, links are below.
https://twitter.com/helenaustin
P.S. This is late not due to the lack of enthusiasm, but it just being one of those days.
P.S. This is late not due to the lack of enthusiasm, but it just being one of those days.
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