Bands/Artists that failed to live up to the hype.
 

Ben posted on my wall the other day asking for a song he remembered and it turned out to be the Klaxons' "Not Over Yet" cover... and I was just thinking how they turned out to be a bit of a flash in the pan... their second album, 'Surfing the Void' peaked at #10. It was pretty good though.

There's also said to be a curse about the Mercury Prize - which boosts sales a heck of a lot for a critically-acclaimed artist and then they never match it. This seems a bit unfair though since their fame was shortlived, if at all (Ms Dynamite, Speech Debelle, Badly Drawn Boy), they've continued to sell well (Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, Dizzee Rascal) or they've continued to produce well-received material (PJ Harvey, Antony and the Johnsons, Klaxons, The xx (surely)).

Just wondered what springs to mind... I'm talking mostly here about critical hype, rather than... sales figures. A good example would be Little Boots, who won BBC's Sound of Music in 2009, beating GaGa, Florence, White Lies, La Roux, Empire of the Sun and Kid Cudi.

The Wombats. The Kooks. Both built up to be "the next best thing", but there was no longevity or consistency. I liked both groups too initially. Where did Kate Nash go btw? You never see her second album in stores? Duffy's album didn't do so great as I recall too and now she is on a musical hiatus.

Natasha Bedingfield and Daniel Bedingfield wasn't as big as I was expecting/hoping for them to be.

James Blunt is another one that didn't have much success after Your Beautiful.

yeah Kate Nash's 2nd album was awful... loved the song 'Do-Wah-Doo' though :lovedup:

The Ting Tings were (annoyingly) everywhere too but their second album and associated singles seemed to have bombed too.

sadly :sad:

His second album still went 2x platinum

Ok fair enough I didn't know that.:joker:

Daniel? I am looking forward to the release of "Rocks Off". Can't wait. (I jest..)

Nah, James Blunt.

Haven't heard Bedingfield's new song yet, heard it was different to his old stuff though

Lucie Silvas, all the X factor contestants

The wave of Indie bands in 06/07

The ones who sang Same Jeans

The View?

Yeah them :laugh:

Though that song was god awful anyway so I guess it was a sign

Right Said Fred, shame really :idc:

heheheh

Damn you to hell!

The View's album from last year was actually really good :/ shame they've flopped

The darkness....

Wasn't Justin Hawkins defeated in the heats for our Eurovision entry a few years back by Scooch? I think he proceeded to call the British public racist or stupid, and then faded into obscurity. Nice work Justin.

He was a druggie, think it was that more than them failing to live up to the hype, then he went all weird left the darkness and done that solo project

Emeli Sande will be a soon addition :idc:

:worship:

Yes, they took 2008 by storm - and then just died.

This.

Yeah he was part of a duo with some black girl... he didn't even make the final two (some woman did, I can't remember her name, but Terry Wogan called her name instead of Scooch's... think it might have been Cyndi?)

Arctic Monkeys..i mean i still love them but when they came out they were made out to be the next beatles and even their latest album..no one really gave a **** about it

I heard he was on drugs too, and he was not 'classically handsome' but wow what a voice!

Ladyhawke. I first saw her on the comedy show FM and then caught snatches of her songs at friends houses/ on the radio and thought she sounded promising....So I bought the album and was massively disappointed..she's ok as quiet background noise but the music doesn't hold up to a proper listen, just a bit blah really

:nono: Ladyhawke is amazing

I always wondered if that was cos Alex went off to do Last Shadow Puppets, kinda stopped the momentum

Submarine :love:

Yeah I thought she had massive potential when I just heard little snatches of her songs, but when I listened to the songs/album...it just didn't have enough oomph for me, sorry Shaun

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