A thing about Pixie Lott...

If you thought the whole 'little Winehouse' phenomenon had been KILLED forever by Lady GaGa and her band of synthy divas - you were wrong. Disillusioned record labels are still trying to squeeze money out of any woman with a decent, soul-flavoured voice and it sucks. In fact, the only good thing to come out of the whole post-Winehouse thing is Adele, who is genuinely extremely talented, not just at singing but also at songwriting and being a charming and beautiful young woman.

On the more dreadful side we've been fed Duffy, who despite some impeccably calculated and well produced Dusty Springfield impersonations has the personality and performance skills of a cheap, lifeless wig and Gabriella Cilmi, who just defies description, she is that bland. These women are NOT copying Amy Winehouse, but the fact that they finally got signed, and given the big push towards chart success is directly related to Amy Winehouse. Anyway... now we have Pixie Lott who is rather fit (in a completely forgettable way) and err... that's it.

She doesn't necessarily take anything away from pop (other than being boring) but she certainly doesn't add anything either. Oh and if that's not enough... check out Emma Deigman. We saw her supporting Girls Aloud and she was like a horrific cross between Gabriella Cilmi and Joss Stone with the looks of sort of Lucie Silvas crossed with... someone else boring.

She can sing. But that doesn't make her interesting. She did a horrific sort of 'soul' version of Lady GaGa's "Just Dance" and several songs that we gather were supposed to be all about being a strong, independent woman in charge of her own life (they were about Jimmy Choos). If anything boils our blood more than boring singers singing boring music, it's boring singers singing boring music who think they are somehow proponents of 'strong, independent women in charge of their own lives' when in reality they stand for a weak, sentimental sort of anti-feminism that seems to spit directly in Emily Pankhurst's grave.

Anyway, we digress. Let us get to the point: Pixie Lott and Emma Deigman = boring, pointless, irritating. Oh and don't even get us started on the fact that not ONE of these supposed new Queens of Soul is black (with the exception maybe of Estelle and VV Brown who, like Adele, are both too interesting in their own right to fall into the post-Winehouse category).