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Seriously? Am I? And if so, why? He’s a talentless harbinger of dross, with his second album being so cringeworthy I cannot listen to any track off it without physically reacting, usually by being violently sick. And yet, Sunny Side Up is currently number one in the albums chart. What the hell?
I haven’t always hated Paolo Nutini. In fact, his first album, These Streets, is actually quite good, and Last Request is a gem of a song. But then it all went wrong with the release of his second album, Sunny Side Up.
What was Nutini thinking? He’s Scottish, with his father being of Italian descent. So where does the black music influence come from? There’s nothing wrong with taking strands of different genres and weaving them into your own music. But is there really a need to try and mimic black singers too?
Nutini ends up sounding like a strangled chicken trying to do an impersonation of a black guy from a horrible 1970s sitcom. Which isn’t the vocal styling I really want to listen to anytime soon. Thanks all the same.
I’m left thinking that Paolo Nutini could easily take Robert Downey Jr.’s part in Tropic Thunder, playing a white guy playing a black guy. But while that was satire, this is just offensive, both on the ear and the moral compass of my mind.
Some of the songs on Sunny Side Up could work, if it weren’t for Nutini’s presence on them. I’m pretty sure I’d love the album if the vocals were stripped out and it was left as an instrumental soundscape. Unfortunately, that not being the case means it’s unlistenable.
I ask whether I’m the only person who feels this way because Sunny Side Up has been in the charts since May, and has sold in excess of 900,000 copies to date. So either I am wrong, or there are a lot of people with very bad taste in music out there.
Say it ain’t so!
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first album, he’s on my playlist as a regular guy singer with rock, alternative, and pop sound. second album came out and he became my favorite even recommending the album to my friends. well, most of them, like you, didn’t liked it. But I am happy he is making good with the second album. I guess more people there still appreciate artist who is not afraid not to sound mainstream. And I think he doesn’t sound black in his second album, he sounds too old for his age, Scottish and drunk. We just have different tastes in music and we have to accept that. I hope you go back loving his songs but too bad… I heard his third album is African influenced music. Im looking forward to listening to that album.
Is this a British thing? Who is Nutini?
Mimic black singers?
Its just the genre he plays, not black by definition.
What if a black singer sings any kind of rock, like in Bloc Party?
What does it matter?
752 days ago
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