Tedious Annie Lennox dropped by record label

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/15/08 at 11:18pm

Sez Annie: "It feels like I'm spent, as if I've completely run out of energy."

Seriously? Honey? You release an album - what? - every seven or eight years? How much energy does that take?


You could always do another covers album, Annie, zzzzzz

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 1/15/08 at 11:19pm

I downloaded her cover of "Waiting in Vain" just the other day. I love it and her.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/15/08 at 11:20pm

Do you mean "Train in Vain," the Clash song she decimated?

[roquat]

Posted: 1/15/08 at 11:20pm

Didn't she just play Antony in the movie of SWEENEY TODD?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/15/08 at 11:21pm

No, that kid wasn't quite as twee as "humble" Annie.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 1/15/08 at 11:21pm

No. "Waiting in Vain." The Bob Marley song.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/15/08 at 11:22pm

Was that on the odious covers album or has she continued to ruin other people's music after that?

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 1/15/08 at 11:24pm

All I know is it was from her album Medussa. I didn't buy the album, just the one song, because I love the song. Her version didn't disappoint me. Not as good as Marley, of course, but still great.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/15/08 at 11:26pm

I did like that Walking on Broken Glass song.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 1/15/08 at 11:29pm

Her version of Cole Porter's "Everytime We Say Goodbye" is heartbreaking. (I mean, in a good way, Namo!)

Updated On: 1/15/08 at 11:29 PM

[supportivemom]

Posted: 1/15/08 at 11:33pm

I like "Why" and I love to watch her perform that song.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/15/08 at 11:35pm

I loathe her. I hope she retires for good, what with being "spent" and all, and we never have to see her stupid face again.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 1/15/08 at 11:36pm

This news is nuthin compared to the announcement that RENT is closing!

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 1/15/08 at 11:37pm

Namo: Why such hostility towards her?

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 1/15/08 at 11:55pm

Perhaps she will be picked up by the Starbucks label. That should give her a lift.

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/15/08 at 11:55pm

LOL

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 1/15/08 at 11:56pm

Maybe she can do a limited-run gig at the Nederlander!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/15/08 at 11:59pm

I thought she was perfectly adequate (and nothing more) when she was in The Tourists and covering "I Only Want to Be With You" but when she and Dave Stewart left that band to form the Eurythmics it became very clear that Stewart was the one with the brains and the creativity. By the time of her inevitable solo career, she was just middle of the road pablum trying to disguise herself as slightly edgy under a #2 blade buzzcut and a Krazy Kolors dye job.

Fade in, fade out and she releases that execrable covers album and *I* get stuck for hours on hold with some tech support somewhere and I have to listen to the ENTIRE thing front-to-back, I am not kidding, four times through. That twee voice chirping an unnecessary remake of the overplayed "Whiter Shade of Pale"? Isn't the original version awful enough? I wanted to gouge out my own brain. It was utter torture.

Couple that with her outrageously puffed up opinion of herself that is backed up with almost no output, what does she record once a decade and do the occasional charity broadcast?, and you have one of my very least favorite performers of all time.

I know it's unkind to admit that it was the one rock star plane crash I was actually looking forward to, but YOU listen to that covers album four times through and you deal with the post-traumatic stress of that and see if you don't end up abhoring Annie Lennox with every fiber of your being, too!

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 12:10am

Namo, you just outdid yourself with that post!

I agree with everything you say about that covers album...and I used to like Annie Lennox.

But, Namo, if you think that's "tedious," try reading her biography (which I got for 4 bucks in the bargain bin.)

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 12:11am

Just keep staring at the image, Namo. Just keep staring at the image.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 12:12am

Ohmygod, no. There is one? I can just imagine it. I bet you I could perform a monologue from it without even reading a word of it. And seriously, that tech support experience really did traumatize me.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 12:16am

I used to say that she was one of my favorite artists of whom I owned NOTHING. Then I got one of her CDs. That cover album IS excruciating.
Cheer up, I hear she is one of the "mentors" on Idol this year!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 12:17am

"You might want to wear a man's tie, darling."

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 12:18am

YES! It's called Annie Lennox: The Biography." Also, this, from the back cover: "...the book all Annie Lennox fans have been waiting for." Just like that.

I want to add to this to my signature: "And seriously, that tech support experience really did traumatize me."

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 12:24am

Or as a pull quote on her book, although I doubt it ever went to paperback. If anybody bought her crap her label wouldn't be dumping her.