Ladyhawke Is Terribly Upset About All This ARIA Controversy
Poor Ladyhawke. She’s a simple lady who loves nothing more than delivering insanely good pop music to the masses with a minimal amount of fuss, but now it seems critics are questioning her right as a New Zealander living in London to qualify for her recent ARIA nominations. And this has resulted in Ladyhawke saying “Screw you guys, I’m going home!”. Nooooooooooooo!
Kiwi artist Ladyhawke is contemplating withdrawing from her planned performance at next month’s ARIA awards as controversy grows over her eligibility.
“At this stage my head’s not in a good space for that. I feel bad about the whole thing – I’d like to withdraw from it,” she said yesterday “I don’t like this sort of controversy. I completely understand where everyone’s coming from (but) I’d rather not do the performance than do it and be booed or whatever. I was excited about performing but I only just found out about the controversy, so my head’s in a dark place.”
“The last thing I ever wanted was for anyone to have negative feelings towards anything I do, especially when it comes to the Australian music scene,” she said. “I never thought I wouldn’t be eligible. I still have my place in Sydney and all my stuff’s there. I haven’t lived in Australia for a year but I still have a lease in Sydney.”
You still have a lease in Sydney? Goddamn it, that’s good enough for me! Look, Ladyhawke – your record was “the best thing I’ve heard all year” (back in 2008) and I would love to see you perform at the ARIAs. I’m sure you won’t get booed, unless Jessica Mauboy fans have suddenly turned horribly aggressive, and sure – maybe in the past, Kiwis like Neil Finn and Evermore weren’t nominated for awards, but did they put their hand up and say “Yes, I am a resident of your fine country who currently has a lease in Sydney! Include me in your ceremony!”? Probably not.
I love Ladyhawke sooooo much, I don’t care if she’s not actually Australian – I want her at the ARIAs. I want her to win every category she’s nominated in, and then I want her to win the categories she wasn’t nominated in. Specifically Best Male Artist and Best Country Album. That’ll teach Keith Urban to move his family to Nashville!
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Surely, *surely* the Oz Recording Industry would not have allowed Ladyhawke’s nominations if she hadn’t been eligible? Right? I mean, there’s got to be SOME kind of guidlines to ascribe to here (which might not explain how Gabriella Cilmi won so many arias off the back of ONE SINGLE but nevermind)?
So if she made it through whatever the rigmarole is to get nominated for an aria (i’m guessing it ranges from successfully destroying a ring in Mt Doom to being the great-baby-niece of a record company exec and everything inbetween), then shit dudes, why don’t you just let her enjoy the (deserved) nominations and find something else to whinge about?
Kids these days, I tells ya.
As if you would get invited to the ARIA’s.
You sit on a computer all day COPYING other people’s story or making fun of them and are obviously completely unable of finding your own.
Wannabe journalist turned plagiarist.
Get a life
…which you are reading and commenting on.
ok…….who is she?