Chanel Cambell who was born in Australia now resides in Nashville. Chanel, 15 yrs. old at the time began collecting vinyls and soon became influenced by many 60’s artists. ” they just seemed completely sold out to something whether it was good or bad. every time i listen to a dylan song i am touched in a new way.”
Inspired by timeless writers from C.S. Lewis to Dylan, from Hemingway to Joni Mtchell.
Chanel set out to find her own voice in the midst of thousands of young nashville hopefuls.
“C.S. Lewis once said ” even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” All I want to do is write songs filled with honest emotion and then convey them through performance. If I can make one person in a room of 100 people feel something with in them, then I’ve done what I’ve set out to do.”
Check out the tracks Cry Cry Cry and and Run Away With Me. For more information contact kevin@teleprompt.com
Hate it when artists namedrop Dylan & Bobbie Gentry & turn out to be the same old boring over-produced Nashville pop. I don’t see any link whatsoever between what she says & what I hear.
I think a lot of artists, specifically in Nashville, should do a better job separating what it is to be a music fan from what it is to be an aspiring artist trying to keep up with the jonses in order to make it. People who want to hear this month’s girl pop star don’t care about Bobbie Gentry & folks who care about Bobbie Gentry don’t care about this month’s girl pop star. That C.S. Lewis quote is just some bullshit justification for handing her sound over to some pop producer. C.S. Lewis wasn’t accounting for aligning yourself with a bunch of folks who want to make you sound like everyone else. He wasn’t condoning artistic apathy or some kind of submission to consumerism.
Thank God for Jenny Lewis.
I like her songs, sorry you’re not feeling it…
The songs aren’t bad at all. It just is what it is. I was expecting something different… something more authentic, something I could actually relate to.
Hey,
I like the girl, but if she wants to make it her music better reach more than 1 out of 100 in a room in this music climate. Also the article is a little pretentious. I agree with Jon.
I haven’t deleted this amount in negative comments in a while. I don’t like deleting comments, but I have to delete comments that fall towards bashing rather than the constructive criticism side.
I personally think people have more a beef with C.S. Lewis than Chanel. In fact, artists today rarely mention anyone worthy, so when saw C.S. Lewis on her page it immediately caught my attention.
Also, I think Chanel is polarizing. We need more artists like Chanel and less circus acts like Spears, Miley, Gaga, and Beyonce.
I don’t think it’s a beef with C.S. Lewis & I can’t imagine it’s a beef with the songs, which are quite good for what they are… it’s a beef with Chanel quoting C.S. Lewis (as if he’s an authority on art to begin with). If there was some obvious connection in the music to everything that she’s preaching it wouldn’t come across as a huge farce. Of course something that’s perceived to be fake is going to be polarizing. It sounds like what you’re saying is that she should be commended for sounding nothing like what her myspace page sets her up to be. (Then again, I didn’t see any of the negative comments.)
Regardless of what she listens to or what she believes or whatever, the problem here is that she’s cultivating a perception of inauthenticity. And perception is everything when you’re trying to sell yourself. If you’re going to make a pop record, you’ve gotta align your brand with your sound or your sound with your brand, one or the other. And later on when you mature as an artist & you’re making a record that sounds like it was birthed in Joni Mitchell & Bob Dylan, then you can bring that out.
But it’s uncomfortable to listen to a song & spend the whole 3 minutes hammering away at perceived authenticity, trying to get to the substance, trying to figure out exactly what you’re hearing, why none of the references are connecting, & how much input the artist likely had on the final product. Honestly I’d rather listen to Irreplaceable by Beyonce than anything on her page, because at least you’re getting the 808 samples, references that make sense. You know exactly what you’re getting. And even if the song is cheesy & oversung & even if the verses don’t exactly flow into the prechorus, the prechorus-to-chorus & the chorus-to-verse make it worth it.
But that’s just me, personally.
you guys have got to lighten up.how about some fun for a change.
go to http://www.myspace.com/steelpantherkicksass
just listen to the songs for a good laugh
and these guys are signed to a major
“It Ain’t Metal If Ain’t Got 2 Petals”