![]() It took a unique voice to make decorative owls and mustard cardigans an actual thing, as well as be a female musician and writer whose music could crack through the male-dominated mainstream and resonate with a wider audience. But she was also singing at a time when the music industry was dominated by Proper Music lad bands like Hard-Fi, The Enemy and The View. Her lyrics were always about an honesty regarding the female experience: recounting being dicked-on by dickheads, or finding power in being that weird chick at the party. For a start, she could well be credited with being an early, much-needed injection of real feminism during a particular pop culture dearth of it. Nash seems less aware of her cultural significance during the mid 00s than you would expect. There was nothing amazing, and fucked up things weren't happening, it was just brutal everyday stuff." I was just writing the stories of what was happening to me during that time, because there wasn't much going on in my life. I went out in London on my own every night, walked on the streets, and got the night bus – and there was so much then that just came out of my fingertips. "I think growing up in the UK was where Made of Bricks came from. The album became a platinum selling UK number one. ![]() The number of times either boy troubles or inordinately off-piste drunk behaviour could be summed up perfectly by a track from that album was uncanny. The delicate balance between everyday tedium and high-end drama was the thrilling line on which you survived, and there was one person out there soundtracking it all.Īt the zenith of her career, Kate Nash went from Nando's waitress to global pop success in a matter of months – there is no-one alive in the English-speaking world who doesn't know the riposte to "You said I must eat so many lemons, coz I am so bitter." Her 2007 debut album, Made of Bricks, was, and still remains, the apogee of a certain era of confessional British pop: a trilling piano and guitar work that details the absolute ordinary, from the most absolutely ordinary position. A disloyal SMS message, a breakup, a conversation with the wrong person, and your whole world could be dominoed into irrevocable chaos.
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