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And she makes me think of the smell of plimsolls. Reason enough, methinks.

I'd go on the Weakest Link

I have no time for anything else she's done. Cheers.

That and she claims to be 25 when she's clearly about 54 (at least!)

i think it's a combination of:

- the foghorn voice
- namby pamby half arsed mystical lyrics
- the 'eccentricity'
- the shit where she stole from gang gang dance
- the racism

Awful in interviews - ' I was considering the death of Virginia Woolf and the place that drowning occupies as a cultural metaphor '

AND - changed YOU got the love, to YOU'VE got the love ... unforgivable grammar snobbery.

- songs that all sound remarkably similar
- the fact that she is now considered royalty due to one chart-topping ringtone that wasn't even her own tune.

A lot of her songs have ok bits, but they all end up being completely bombastic and over the top but not in an interesting way - it's like an annoying posh girl at a party shouting 'I'm really crazy and interesting' at the top of her voice.

Her singing voice is powerful, but powerful like a foghorn and entirely without nuance or timbre. Her songwriting is contrived and utterly unconvincing.

Also, the message of 'A kiss with a fist' is a distinctly dodgy one to be throwing at our pop kids.

I find it amazing that she is so successful, whereas Natasha Khan, who I think is genuinely interesting and talented, seems to have disappeared.

Bellowing out songs with over-bombastic arrangements devoid of subtlety.

I think a few of her tracks are okay.

This is going to sound really twatty, but I saw her at the first Field Day (with Lightspeed Champion and Kid Harpoon in her backing band) and she was a lot more interesting. Still seemed like she knew she had nice legs a little too much for my liking, but I came away thinking that she sounded a lot more promising than it's turned out.

but the Machine can fuck off

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvMfbfZKVbY

;-)

And, in general, I don't find anything particularly terrible about her music. It's the contrived, floaty-floaty manic pixie demeanour she seems to gain in interviews that really puts me off her. Although there are lots of musicians who I like that are cunts, so there's probably more to it than that.

1. She has an annoying, shouty, charmless voice that is constantly championed by the Guardian as if she's the new Kate Bush. She fucking ain't...
2. Florence & the Machine, that's the name. Who the fuck are the Machine? A bunch of session musicians shuttled in on a ginger whim? Whatever they may be, can't they share some of the spotlight?
3. She slaughtered 'You got the Love' by Candi Staton... But, I found out in that Joss Stone also covered it, so I like to think that Flo was covering Joss. Which makes her even more hateful....

there are exceptions but she's not one of them. Songs are interesting and original though.

i.e. the current ones where the cartoon woman's singing in the tune of 'YMCA', and it's all sung ridiculously and offensively loudly – so much so that the vocals are audibly distorted and clipped.

Thankfully however, Ol' Flossy's not quite as bad as <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3PRQN8Sv5E"; target="_blank">this</a>

.....sell every last fragment of her soul for fame and fortune. I like an occasional slice of bombast but she seems very ungenuine. A shame coz she does possess a couple of half decent tunes.

she's some American parentage in there somewhere and hence the 'ungenuine' pseudo English quirkiness. And the constant playing on daytime '6' is just weird, somebody at the Beeb clearly loves her.

because her boomy, shallow music ain't for me. Not because of some Beeb conspiracy or whatever, jeez.

yeah, shes what CoCoRosie would sound like if they stepped over the lune, took a shit on it then threw up

Though she gives the impression that she thinks her product is greater than it really is. This might not be true, but it's an unfortunate vibe to put out.

Also - she went to Alleyn's School in South London. I went round there on an open day recently for my daughter, and we looked around the music block. It contained a series of glass studios full of proto-florence, penate and maccabee clones (all alumni) with asymmetric haircuts rocking out. My daughter took one look and said "I want to go here!". Sadly, she didn't get the necessary scholarship that my finances required, so she ended up in a (very good) local comprehensive. Tough shit.

So that's why I don't like Florence. A touch of sour grapes, but it's all too easy from some people.

Song: Hurricane Drunk

i just can't accept people lying about their age.

Ceremonials’ News:

· 1.5 million worldwide sales
· 500k U.S sales + re-entry into Billboard Top 10
· 120k UK live tickets sold for March tour

In the two months since the release of ‘Ceremonials’, love for Florence’s second album continues apace with worldwide sales of 1.5 million - 500,000 a piece from the UK and America and 500,000 from other territories.

The album has also re-entered the Billboard Top 10 while her debut album Lungs has now passed 1 million sales in the U.S.

After live shows in Brazil, Japan and L.A, Florence’s UK tour runs over the first two weeks in March. All dates have sold out after selling a massive 120,000 tickets over all. Support on all dates will come from The Horrors and Spector, except London on March 9, where the opening band will be Theme Park.

‘No Light, No Light’ is released on Monday January 16th

March 2012 Tour:

02/3 - O2 Dublin
04/3 - BIC Bournemouth
05/3 - Motorpoint Arena Cardiff
06/3 - Capital FM Arena Nottingham
08/3 - Alexandra Palace London
09/3 - Alexandra Palace London
10/03 - Alexandra Palace London
12/3 - SECC Glasgow
13/3 - LG Arena Birmingham
15/3 - MEN Arena Manchester
16/3 - Metro Radio Arena Newcastle