Bebe Black has been doing the rounds now for a good few months, to the extent that the cynical might be moved to wonder when on earth she's going to "happen". You get this a lot these days. Anything longer than or even in the environs of "a good few months" and the old alarm bells start ringing. Silly, really. Anyway, here she finally comes, does Bebe B, with a sound that posits her more as a rival to Katy B (see what we did there?) than one of the big-voiced balladeers such as, say, Adele. Not that Black doesn't have a big voice, just that on the tracks that we've heard, it's allied to a ravey sort of dance-pop, as opposed to the more soul-y stuff she was apparently peddling, sorry, purveying in late 2011 or early 2012. There would appear to have been a change of direction, a shift towards a less crowded market, where only one young lady, the aforementioned KB, needs supplanting.
Bebe Black has been doing the rounds now for a good few months, to the extent that the cynical might be moved to wonder when on earth she's going to "happen". You get this a lot these days. Anything longer than or even in the environs of "a good few months" and the old alarm bells start ringing. Silly, really. Anyway, here she finally comes, does Bebe B, with a sound that posits her more as a rival to Katy B (see what we did there?) than one of the big-voiced balladeers such as, say, Adele. Not that Black doesn't have a big voice, just that on the tracks that we've heard, it's allied to a ravey sort of dance-pop, as opposed to the more soul-y stuff she was apparently peddling, sorry, purveying in late 2011 or early 2012. There would appear to have been a change of direction, a shift towards a less crowded market, where only one young lady, the aforementioned KB, needs supplanting.