Summary
A FEW YEARS AGO MINNIE Driver was told by a record company executive that her songs were good but she shouldn't bother trying to be a pop star because she'd get crucified. Relating this story recently, Driver described the executive as "a f***ing bastard". Fair comment - record company executives generally are f***ing bastards - but he had a point.
Poor Minnie. In many quarters, her pop career is being written off as a failure before it has even started, her debut single having sold little more than 500 copies. "Talk about money down the drain," hooted the Mirror, noting that the actor had been signed by EMI for around GBP 1 million. Actually, the single, Everything I've Got In My Pocket, reached a not terribly unhealthy number 32, a fact that says as much about the number of people buying singles these days as about how many people are buying Minnie Driver singles. And far from being money down the drain, pop singles are loss-leaders. Even hits make little money now. They only continue to exist in order to sell albums. And Minnie Driver's album is rather good, in a middle-of- the-road kind of way. If you like Dido, Sarah McLachlan, Carole King, that sort of thing, you should buy it. You'll like it.See the full content of this document
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Stop Having a Pop at Minnie
But who wants to talk sense about Minnie Driver? Much more fun to sneer. Who does she think she is, this jumped-up Hollywood star turned wannabe singer? Some of the sneering is personal - much of the press, for some reason, turned against Driver a few years ago, as demonstrated when an off-the-cuff remark about...
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