Re: tori bad?!?

["Stuart M. Castergine" <scasterg@dispatch.com>]

Why would they bother to market someone as a clone of someone who is, in
the American market, a rather minor, obscure cult artist? It would be
like someone being marketed as a clone of Jane Siberry.


On Mon, 12 May 1997, S.Irani-lewis wrote:

>  
> > As most Kate Bush fanatics (read: me) would assert, Tori (not 
> > counting her Y Kant Tori Read phase) first come out as a direct 
> > rip-off of Kate.  Her _Little Earthquakes_ album not only was 
> > an attempt to pass her off as a Kate clone, but even down to 
> > the album design, it was a horrible way to market Tori, 
> 
> Marketing rarely has anything to do with the artist......you 
> shouldn't hold the marketing managers limited imagination against 
> her.......its fairly obvious she has one! :-)
> 
> Love Will......xx
> 
> "Dark is the suede that mows like a harvest!"
> 
> 
> 

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