STUPID THINGS SAID BY POP STARS 1: Jazzie B
Now admittedly the entire column could consist of this particular item, but nevertheless it behooves me to scrape away the superficial veneer of dimness which covers most pop stars to discover the imbicile within. And so it is when the bloated, fame starved figure of Jazzie B appeared on our television screens recently to tell us the secret of his success. Success? Don’t make me laugh. Two hit singles – and one of those had a kids choir on it. That said, all my carping on why “Back II Life” will never refer to Soul II Soul’s career (Club Classics Vol 9 anyone – The Rebirth of Fool) will never match the stupidity of this quote:
“Soul II Soul made black music. The band was black, the vinyl the records came out on was black.”
I wonder how much a copy of Kylie’s “I Should Be So Lucky” on apartheid busting black vinyl is worth then? Everyone else has it on Neo-Nazi White Supremacist Vinyl. (Or at least loose stool, yellow-brown colour since Kylie was shit.)