Never mind the bollocks here's the NME

I happen to follow the news headlines from the Enemy, oh sorry, I mean the NME, maan! One of the striking things is the comments added by other readers. For example when a news headline about, let’s say Cheryl Cole is published there will be about a dozen negative comments “manufactured crap” or such like. I’m not a particular fan of Miss Cole but she seems like quite a nice woman, she probably works very hard, I’ve no idea if she writes her own music, or produces it, I presume she is mainly a singer who works with other music industry professionals to make her records just like Frank Sinatra did and the majority of the great singing stars. Ms Cole’s records sell in large numbers and they must bring a lot of pleasure to the people . If one is in the entertainment industry ones job is to entertain. So I find the comments from the other readers to be infantile and immature, just like your sexuality if you are not at ease with your musical tastes there’s no need to offend other people.
Coming back to the NME, they recently had a poll for the best live act of all time. I decided to vote T.Rex, but it seems NME democracy is a bit more like Beijing democracy, as you were presented a selection to choose from, no T.Rex, oh well I thought, they can’t list everyone, so I thought I would vote for Robbie Williams, whose Knebworth concerts broke all records for a UK pop performance. No chance, most of the artist listed I have no experience of so can’t comment of their live performance abilities but so many artists were missing, the poll was a joke. Perhaps there had been earlier heats and these were just the finals, but if so this wasn’t made clear.
And today I discovered that NME have a new chart, which reflects NME type music, it reminded me of the “our kind of people” attitude you get in middle class country clubs. Once again I’ve no idea what the entry criteria is for this chart, maybe artists with wrangler jeans are in but artists with Levis are out, but it does seem like a pointless exercise which will just encourage the type of musical bigotry i mention in the first paragraph of this blog. I tried to make a comment about the new chart, but this won’t be published until it has passed the censors at NME.
The NME used to be a great publication; it had great writers and challenged the status quo of the music business and beyond. Now it seems more like a ghetto for the narrow minded and musically insecure.