Artists I don't want to hear any more from and/or about in 2005 -- an excercise in FUTILITY!

When I saw Gillian Welch at the Bowery, Norah Jones did a guest spot on stage. She was surprisingly nervous and uncharismatic, and it sounded like her mic wasn't turned up enough. After the song she said, extremely awkwardly, "Gil and Dave ROCK!"

Somehow, I just couldn't hate her after this experience.

>>She was surprisingly nervous and uncharismatic

I think that sums her up pretty well; I saw her open for John Mayer. She's the textbook example of someone who got pushed onto the scene way before she was ready. Can't you just hear the guys at Blue Note going, "Wow, that Eva Cassidy chick sure is shifting units. Too bad she's dead. Let's go find somebody toiling away in a Williamsburg Cafe and blow her up into the next big thing." Then when the research team did the background check and found out she was the Bhagwan Rasneesh Snizzleshit's illegitimate daughter, they had their rockist media hook which they peddled to the likes of Robert Hilburn wholesale and it was off to the chart races. Once they had enlisted the New York Sunday Times Magazine as their flack machine and struck marketing deals with amazon.com and Starbucks, the rest was a grass-roots, word-of-mouth, straight-from-left-field sales miracle.

She really is the diva for the Bush2 administration….

"She's the textbook example of someone who got pushed onto the scene way before she was ready"

Yeah, that seems like an understatement -- I get the impression that she never really expected to be "ready". Maybe I don't know the whole story (rogue jazz exec?) but I wonder whether Blue Note themselves ever expected a huge success like this.

Courtney Love.

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I'd gladly be forcefed constant coverage of all of those this thread names if I could never hear the name 'Paris Hilton' again.

Bit of a stretch for this thread, but I suppose she's an 'artist'.
She's been in a film.