About this "chronicle" of yours...

Hi Aidan...

Well, I feel embarrassed really about all this because I don't know whether to spit at your face or just slap it off... The thing is it sounds stupidly unfair to keep hammering on about "Beatles, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles" when talking about my work in general and this last album in particular... The Beatles WERE indeed a musical influence of mine as they are for the 68 million other people who write Pop Music all over the world, but they were just one influence amongst many others including French artists you probably never heard of... And anyway that's not even the point, because I do believe the 15 tracks on this new album DO HAVE a sound of theirs and they're neither copies of the Beatles' sound nor imitations of any kind. Listen more carefully and more intelligently to those songs and their arrangements and their lyrics and their sounds, and if your brain DOES work, you'll easily find there is much, much, much more to them than this lazy and stupid "Beatles-centered" analysis...
If you do think that tracks like "Troublemaker" or "Elle est tellement vieille" or "Je vous aime immediatement" are just Beatles-derivative, then you're either deaf or silly or Beatle-obsessed YOURSELF or the three of them...

Dig the lyrics (not one single bit like anything the Beatles used to say in their songs), hear the different textures, feel the core and the gist of the music, forget about this too easy comparaison and next time try and do your job properly.

The thing is I'd rather people like you didn't write about me at all that having that kind of shit thrown at me.

Cheers.
(Why don't you fly back to your country where you obviously belong, like right now, and write about the incredibly original and unique and never heard before bands and singers your contry's packed with ?...)

MeeK.

Re: MeeK

I'll second that Wow from Aidan.

The negativity of MeeK's comment has me perplexed. Aidan's blog entry is actually quite positive, and written in such a way that it is nudges a reader to check out MeeK's music.

As for MeeK's final comment, it speaks for itself.

Re: MeeK

All I'm saying is : your analysis is very narrow-minded in the sense that from the first line down to the last one, it's just "Beatles, Beatles, Fab-flavoured, Beatles, Fab-obsessed, Beatles, Beatles" for fuck's sakes !!... And the thing is, not only is this narrow-minded but also untrue, because the Beach Boys, the Stones, Queen, Simon & Garfunkel and Cat Stevens to name but a few have all been great influences to me every bit as much as the "Fab" !... And anyway that's not the point, as I can't see anything particularly "positive" in being held as nothing more than a "Beatles-obsessed" copycat ! Don't tell me you don't know what I mean ! And that in itself prooves that you haven't really listened to the album, and I'm sorry to say that but it just pisses me off to see how superficial your visons of things are, totally bypassing what makes my originality and my own artistic input, that's all. And there's nothing "pretentious" about my reaction ! It's a logical reaction from someone who's been trying to build something personal with his music for the past 15 years, that's all...

MeeK.

Re: MeeK

(Oh and I forgot : I'm not French, I'm Franco-British.)

Re: MeeK

I've no problem if you disagree with me, but the violence of your reaction is ridiculous. As I never suggested you were a Beatles 'copycat', your latest comment now sounds paranoid. The clarification re: your dual nationality makes the xenophobia of your first comment hard to understand. It's a pity, because your music is good. I regret that what I wrote caused such a reaction from you - it wasn't my intention. But you must accept that you can't control how people hear your music: that's the risk all artists take by putting their work in the public domain. If you react like this to me, what do you do for negative reviews? (After all, mine was positive.)

Re: MeeK

Well, "good", but it's still a bunch of "too sugary" "Beatle-obsessed" numbers, right ?...

Re: MeeK

Ah. Maybe you misunderstood. My point was: some people think pop melodies are sugary and awful, which is as incomprehensible to me as hating something good like chocolate. In other words, your melodies are good. And 'Beatles-obsessed' simply refers to the fact that you made a Beatles cover album and translated Paul's bio (true?), and that makes you a very big Beatles person by any standard, and any music fan will be interested in that. Yes, I focused on that aspect and I stand by what I wrote. I have a comments box exactly so that readers can disagree with me. But no need for xenophobia and insults: I don't think you meant them anyway. Aidan