Nov. 2nd, 2009

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Jace Everett's "Bad Things," which was first released in the U.S. in 2005 and which last year became the theme to the HBO series True Blood (and which was number 20 on my top country singles list for 2006, four spots below Everett's "That's The Kind Of Love I'm In"), rose this week to #49 on the UK pop singles chart. Any idea why? Did someone sing it on X Factor? (If so, this isn't readily apparent from a quick Google search.) Or is True Blood getting sudden TV attention in Britain?

The basic feeling back in 2006 on Rolling Country was that Everett was getting over more on songs than on his singing. That's what Xhuxk said, anyway, and I agree. ILX was down in late 2006, so when I got around to discussing Everett with Edd Hurt, we were on email. Iirc, I praised Everett's songwriting but said he had a mannequin voice (though he was good enough for me to list then and to embed now).



On Rolling Country 2007 I kept asserting that the way Miley Cyrus sings "I just can't wait to see you again" is fairly similar to how Jace sings "I wanna do bad things with you": not that Cyrus and Armato & James copied it but that they and Everett were pulling from the same rockabilly model, using reverb and a similar twist in the tune. But Miley doesn't sound like a mannequin (someone on Rolling Country said that she's got the raw voice of a 40-year-old Nashville barmaid; this was meant as a compliment).

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