Comments on: Michelle Branch – Sooner or Later

By: cr@zy Kat

cr@zy Kat — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:27:49 +0000

i hate taylor, her voice is bad, her attitude is suck, she’s so ugly. I hate her

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:27:30 +0000

And britney sucks too, I HATE britney, and all that other pop crap! LOVE Michelle Branch! Michelle is QUALITY, and has a voice and talent like no other. She deserves less harsh critisism that she has been getting and more praise and success. Michelle works her butt off to get a song and album together, then gets slapped in the face. Taylor pulls something out of her butt, and everyone just goes crazy. And Britney, that b**ch can have a song about a fart that was put together in, what, one or two days, and it goes #1! Give Michelle a chance!

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:19:13 +0000

Michelle Branch ROCKS! Piss on taylor swift. The hell with her teenage, winey, “You belong to me”! “Sooner or Later” is awesome.

By: Chuck Eddy

Chuck Eddy — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:27:40 +0000

Okay, I finally thought of a perfect example of what Frank and I were discussing up above! Bad Company blatantly changing their sound in a more synthy/pop direction to sound more like Foreigner (who were obviously Bad Co.-influenced in the first place) circa Desolation Angels in 1979. (And actually, Roxy Music wasn’t a bad example after all, if you consider how “Over You” from 1980 totally ripped off its hooks from the Cars’ “Let’s Go” from the year before.)

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By: Frank Kogan

Frank Kogan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:20:14 +0000

Alex, if you can get past the song's massive self-pity, the title track to Stand Still, Look Pretty is actually quite, um, pretty.

By: Frank Kogan

Frank Kogan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:15:44 +0000

(And actually “Run Runaway” wasn’t trying to sound like “Cum On Feel The Noize.” But point taken.)

By: Frank Kogan

Frank Kogan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:09:12 +0000

Xpost. Yeah, I guess Michelle could be going after someone else’s share of a market she herself created, but Michelle’s been doing songs with this theme for eight years and her country move was independent of Taylor’s. Actually, we should talk about Jewel going after Michelle’s market share – you wouldn’t know it from the reviews above, but the Wreckers were successful.

I guess what I’m saying is that the cynicism upthread is sour and cheap, even if Taylor does whip Michelle’s ass.

By: Frank Kogan

Frank Kogan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:59:23 +0000

(And while not being a valid critical point, the thing about plays her instrument and writes her songs means that Michelle and then Pink, Vanessa, and Avril can be models for the girls who don’t think they rate as the sex blondes. Not that sensitive guitar strummer with long hair is even as interesting as Britney, but Michelle also had a tune to match any of Britney’s (courtesy of John Shanks), and with the door opened by Michelle, performers like Vanessa C. and Pink and Avril could show up on Radio Disney to provide variations on or alternatives to Michelle’s girliness.

By: Chuck Eddy

Chuck Eddy — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:54:57 +0000

Hmmm…I have no opinion about whether Michelle is going after Taylor’s market share (and no opinion about this song), but seems to me you could talk about Roxy Music or Bowie going after the Cars’ or Duran Duran’s (or whoever’s) market share in the late ’70s and early ’80s, despite having created the market and sound earlier. (Okay, that’s maybe not the best example…Slade going after Quiet Riot’s market share? Aerosmith going after Ratt’s? Pretty sure these examples are just getting dumber and dumber. Somebody help me out here. But in other words, artists can be influenced in turn by artists they influence. It’s not an unheard-of phenomenon.)