Some of you might know. In southeast Asia, like in Bangkok we have shops who claim they will make you suits and shirts within 24 hours. We call them Tailor Swift.
More importantly, can either of them play midfield?
Don’t rate either of them at all. Doesn’t matter who is better. Auto-tuned , pop culture , manufactured singers are just that.
Lana Del Rey among the recent ones is very good
Most of the current ones make the likes of Britney Spears sound great in comparision. Well except some rare exceptions like Lana , Katy , Lady Gaga etc
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Her songs are quite different from pop music that is usually served to us. Almost hypnotic, dreamy quality to them - and Tiamat also covered one of her songs, so I think it’s safe to say that goth/metal community warmed to her. I certainly have a lot of respect for her songs, really cool voice as well. She also supports the same club as TAN people!
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Within Temptation did an okay version of her Summertime sadness song as well.
She’s also been stalked and had at least one home invasion from a fan.
the adjective I’ve heard most suitable for her music would be “ethereal”.
There was another song which preceded her by over a decade which had that same quality. A group called Delerium put out a song with a guest vocalist called “Flowers Become Screens” which I believe ended up on a soundtrack but can’t remember where I heard it first.
Same group members did a project called Front Line Assembly which was very much industrial (think Nine Inch Nails) back in 1992… this is it, maybe @Arminius remembers it. I remember watching it, was far ahead of it’s time for its production quality in Canada.
This was the aforementioned project by same guys. turn the bass up 
Think I heard this song remixed to a house beat at a club called Graceland in Vancouver in ~1995.
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I wasn’t living in Canada back then. When I left Canada, the Tragically Hip were a Kingston-area band that played gigs at Queen’s. By the time I came back (1995), they were a national phenomenon. So Canadian music circa 1992 is a bit of a black hole for me.
heh. a Canadian phenomenon that band. The Hip’s last gig was on the eve of my friend’s 40th birthday we were hosting in my yard, had about 50 people out back… pulled my dad’s old 70’s Technics hi-fi system out of retirement and dragged the TV into the back yard for that one.
I miss Gord Downie. World needs more people like him.
Absolute quality.
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He was a good guy, I would not say he was a friend in Kingston, as a musician he kept rather later hours than I did. But we knew each other well enough to say hi in recognition, and we were in the same class. Last time I saw the Hip was 1989. I must have seen them several dozen times, the vast majority at Clark Hall and Alfie’s, never would have guessed how big they would become (2nd best campus band in my opinion at the time). Certainly could not have guessed that he would somehow become a figure of moral conscience for the nation, probably the purest such voice in my lifetime.
I think that was less than a year before cancer claimed him.
Wasn’t sure if to post here or tv thread, but for anyone interested the Joe Strummer doc ‘The future is unwritten’ is currently on channel 4 on demand, but not sure how long for.
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Watching Glastonbury, Lizzo. Anybody remember the Rolly Polly’s?
leftfield at Glasto…
check one…
even the baby in the wifes womb is bouncing about!
Decent set by GnR in Glasto tonight. Although Axl’s voice was cutting in and out. Can’t have been the mic setup as he’d have thrown his toys out of the pram and stomped off (he has a long history of that). Would have liked for them to do Out Ta Get Me. Otherwise a solid set list. Izzy was their best composer, the newer songs aren’t as good without him.
thats one for the teenagers!
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thought they were great. Few duff notes from Axl but he is 61.
Slash was awesome
Just read a tweet from someone saying he is 61 but has covered more yards tonight than Keita did in 5 seasons with us.
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Slash is the diamond in their ranks, he is an all-time great!
Slash was great, sound guys saved us from Axl.
I attended the GNR show in Singapore in 2017, was quite a massive show with 50K people. But back then, Axl was already not hitting the notes but GNR is always GNR. The classics will always remain with us even Axl’s voice was long gone.