It’s impossible to “just be you” on stage, because by stepping on stage you begin to inhabit a character, the character of You On Stage, whoever that might be. You’re becoming something or someone that you wouldn’t be otherwise.
On the one hand, playing music is an inherently performative process, because the minute you strap on a guitar and/or climb onto a stage, you’re performing. Pop music (and I mean that in its most literal sense here, i.e., popular music, not necessarily just the genre, which will herewith be referred to as “chart pop” to avoid confusion) has always had a vexed relationship with the concept of authenticity. So, who’s right? Do we care about authenticity anymore? The answer, I’d argue, isn’t as simple as either Graves or Christgau wants to argue. Most notably, it’s manifested in two places: in Perfect Pussy singer Meredith Graves’ Basilica Soundscape talk on Andrew WK and Lana Del Rey, and the differing standards of authenticity to which she claims they’re held and in the fact that someone at Billboard thought it was a great idea to get Robert Christgau to review Iggy Azalea’s New Classic, a review in which he compares her to the Beatles, suggests that Tupac’s “flow was never world class,” and holds forth on how Azalea’s authenticity, or lack thereof, matters not a jot. So: shade.Īnyway, today Iggy previewed the video for the meeting of minds that is her and Rita Ora’s new single, Black Widow.The question of authenticity in music is one of those debates that surfaces periodically, and it’s raised its scaly head a few times this week. “What I want the world to know about Nicki Minaj is when you hear Nicki Minaj spit, Nicki Minaj wrote it," Nicki Minaj’d, before throwing a number of poses and saying, "No shade". Iggy has attracted criticism recently for singing a rap verse on every song in the entire world not writing her own lyrics, after Nicki Minaj’s speech at last month’s BET Awards was thought to very heavily throw shade at fellow nominee Azalea. The song has drawn comparisons with pre-Dirrty Christina Aguilera and the kind of hold music they might play when you’re on the phone to a strip club. And guess what? Iggy Azalea’s pop career is embarrassingly bad.įans have unearthed a video of Iggy recorded between 20, when she first moved to America – the exact date of recording being vague, because Iggy Azalea is ageless, as most things made literally out of porcelain and horsehair are – and sees her gyrate in, between and around the bestocking’d legs of a bunch of dancers in a what is basically a very poor impression of Britney Spears during her Womanizer era. Smart money bettin’ I be better off without you news now, and rap alien Iggy Azalea had a failed pop career before she found fame as ‘that person who sings on literally every song in the charts’.
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