We don't mind that Jessie J if we're being honest. Like Adele, Kate Nash and Amy Winehouse, she is a by-product of the Brit School which has spawned all types of musicians making inoffensive pop.
Basically, if you want a career in music, then attending this school will boost your chances – in the way that if you want to get into British politics, studying privately Eton will do wonders compared to those rotting in state education.
Topping all sorts of lists that we?ll never be asked to contribute to, Jessie J seems to have been tipped by everyone as one to watch. She came top of a BBC sound of 2011 poll and won a critics choice at the Brit awards. Now with the highest of expectations placed on her back, she now has to deliver and make sure she's worthy of her awards. Like most of the horses at the recent Grand National, she's taken a slight fall by not winning over a crowd of drunken spectators.
Even though Jessie J has established herself in the music well, with multiple awards and an album that charted at number two, it seems that she's still sticking to her roots. Don't worry; she hasn't recorded a terrible song like Jennifer Lopez about not leaving her local estate and only shopping at Netto. Instead, she is still performing in small scale venues where punters aren't ripped off like they would be at an arena gig.
But over the weekend, the singer found playing a scaled down gig in front of group of students in Dublin wasn?t the best idea. Remember, student life consists of scraping the mould off last week?s pizza for breakfast, watching ITV daytime, drinking to excess and starting essays two days before the hand-in date. Students are a strange bunch who prefers to be entertained via crap DJ sets that are mimed via kids TV presenters from their youth.
Therefore, booking a singer who mightn?t be everyone's cup of tea could be a gamble. In the case of hiring Jessie J to entertain people at the Trinity College in Dublin over the weekend, it didn't go well, but not due to her failing to perform to the best of her abilities. Taking to the medium of Twitter to express how she felt in a compressed sentence, she said:
?I’m not upset they weren’t all listening. It upset me to see so many young people so not with it. I’m not used to it.?
Later describing it as:
?One of her hardest gigs to date after seeing girls unconscious and people trampling on each other.?
We've heard her music and wouldn't describe it as a sound that people would go mental to. Perhaps she genuinely does give a toss about people and doesn't want people?s fun times in university to be ruined by a couple of drunken pricks who can't handle a few beers. The singer herself in a non-drinker after suffering from a minor stroke when she was eighteen, something that isn't amusing at all for anyone. A fan replied to Jessie J?s tweets by saying:
?Are you being serious? Just be thankful you were performing on stage to your fans.?
This prompted another tweet from the singer which says
?As a non-drinker, I just want to spread the message that binge drinking is dangerous. I just care.?
The moral of this story? You don't have to get off your tits to have a good night and act like a twat if someone offers friendly advice. Now go plagiarise your dissertation off the internet, pesky students.
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busker rhymes says
for me this smacks of jessie j being massively inexperienced and naive cos of brit school i guess or whatever. this *is* coming from the girl whose main contribution to the world so far has been a hugely commercially successful hit about anti-commercialism- so we may have to take it with a pinch of salt