Okay, now I'm curious

[petronia]

Question for the Singaporeans: how popular is David Usher? Is it just, well, all the people I know, or does he play on the radio all the time? And is it just him, or would hearing - say - Moist's "Gasoline" give you the same mid-'90s nostalgia rush?

(And if he does play all the time on the radio, would he have gotten that popular if he'd titled his first album Little Songs To Fuck To like he originally wanted? Heh.)

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[(Anonymous)]

Well, he was pretty popular for a moment when "Black Black Heart" first came out. Pretty much on the airwaves for quite some time before suddenly disappearing.

As for his popularity...let's just say Papa Gov doesn't take kindly to artists who say the right things at the wrong time and would have done something. Probably force distributors to sell only the Import CDs. Who knows?

[I've painted a bleak picture of the island, haven't I? But honestly, it isn't _all_ that bad. Really. :)]

- kay

[ayatsujik.livejournal.com]

Mid-90s rush: Hmm, nah. Not for me, anyway. Then again in the mid-90s I was a little squirt growing up to my two brothers' mix tapes (Firehouse/Roxette/Def Leppard/Michael Jackson meets Suzanne Vega and random assorted people), so I probably didn't come out of that with clear musical definitions. His music is very post-90s to me: the mixing and lyrics anyway.

BBH got decent airtime when it first came out. Alone in the Universe was played once or twice and subsequently ignored, as are the (IMO) better songs that make it to the airwaves (like Tori's ASF). *I'm* a DU fan; have Little Songs and am saving up for Morning Orbit, but AFAIK he's paddling somewhere far away from mainstream popularity. More airtime if it had been LSTFT? May--be. Higher album sales, most definitely, or at least going by the people I know. ^_^