12-07-2007, 06:16 PM
I found this link from MJ's Big Blog, and I found it interesting:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4b61dd80-9fb3-...ck_check=1
It IS about #4 and his band touring overseas (London, in this case) but what caught my eye in this article, are these 2 paragraphs near the beginning, and the 3 paragraphs at the end:
"Idols and indifference"
"'Daughtry, with well over 3m album sales in the US but scarcely 400,000 anywhere else, is trying to crack the UK market.
Success is not guaranteed. US pop may straddle the globe but its biggest names are not always exportable. In spite of the impression that the world is an avid consumer of all things American, there are certain US rock stars whose popularity evaporates once they set foot outside their homeland....'"
"'The enthusiasm and desire to charm betrayed his musical background: he was a finalist in the television talent show American Idol in 2006. Unusually for Idol competitors, who tend to traffic in chart pop and R&B, the shaven-haired, stocky singer is a hard rocker. His eponymous band churn out grimacing riffs while Daughtry, one hand raised like a preacher, eyes shut, brow furrowed, delivers commanding clichés about life and love.
His songs are power ballads with grungy trappings. "This is a love song," he said gruffly before one track, a gutsy maelstrom of wailing guitars and thudding drumming. Another song, about being "dumped", found him bullishly hollering, "I got over you", as if romantic despair were just another hurdle to be vaulted.
Daughtry's songs are full of big emotions, rather like James Blunt or Coldplay, but they're expressed in the earnestly masculine language of hard rock. This brand of macho sentimentality is unlikely to serve him well in the UK, as became clear when I overheard someone in the audience singing "Radio Ga Ga" while we waited for the encore. In the land of Queen, Daughtry will never be a star.'"
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4b61dd80-9fb3-...ck_check=1
It IS about #4 and his band touring overseas (London, in this case) but what caught my eye in this article, are these 2 paragraphs near the beginning, and the 3 paragraphs at the end:
"Idols and indifference"
"'Daughtry, with well over 3m album sales in the US but scarcely 400,000 anywhere else, is trying to crack the UK market.
Success is not guaranteed. US pop may straddle the globe but its biggest names are not always exportable. In spite of the impression that the world is an avid consumer of all things American, there are certain US rock stars whose popularity evaporates once they set foot outside their homeland....'"
"'The enthusiasm and desire to charm betrayed his musical background: he was a finalist in the television talent show American Idol in 2006. Unusually for Idol competitors, who tend to traffic in chart pop and R&B, the shaven-haired, stocky singer is a hard rocker. His eponymous band churn out grimacing riffs while Daughtry, one hand raised like a preacher, eyes shut, brow furrowed, delivers commanding clichés about life and love.
His songs are power ballads with grungy trappings. "This is a love song," he said gruffly before one track, a gutsy maelstrom of wailing guitars and thudding drumming. Another song, about being "dumped", found him bullishly hollering, "I got over you", as if romantic despair were just another hurdle to be vaulted.
Daughtry's songs are full of big emotions, rather like James Blunt or Coldplay, but they're expressed in the earnestly masculine language of hard rock. This brand of macho sentimentality is unlikely to serve him well in the UK, as became clear when I overheard someone in the audience singing "Radio Ga Ga" while we waited for the encore. In the land of Queen, Daughtry will never be a star.'"
