Usually I only post stuff I just like pure and simple but there's something about this that rather got my goat and I'm making an exception. As you get older you get used to niche marketing but there's something particularly cynical about the way Australian singer-songwriter Ali Barter seems to be being sold. By her record company. And more unfortunately, by herself.
Take the picture here, where her hooded, wasted expression is blatantly designed to give the impression that Barter's utterly 'under the influence' whether or not she actually is. Take the song title Ur a Piece of Shit and a lot of the 'too gone to care' lyrics which are either deeply contemptuous or deeply irresponsible or both. The music industry has always exploited wasted chic but in this case it's a shame because some of Barter's songs are half decent if you can circumvent the callow manipulation.
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