May. 8th, 2010

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Since someone recently spammed Dave's old Alexandra Slate post on Bedbugs 2006, I went back and listened to Slate's MySpace. She's good, at least on the evidence of three songs. Her voice reminds me of Kara DioGuardi's, rich and deep and pained; so do her melodies, actually, and she has a similar guileless directness in her lyrics - guilelessly direct like such Platinum Weird tracks as "Taking Chances" and "Happiness" and "Nobody Sees," that is, words about falling down and getting up, and so forth, as if no one else will quite understand what this is like.* (Slate is cowriter on "Bad Girl" according to Allmusic, while the other two MySpace tracks aren't on her album** and I haven't found any credits, but DioGuardi had nothing to do with them, at least they're not listed in her credits at BMI; DioGuardi wasn't a big deal then so Slate may well have come up with the style without knowing Kara's work. Johnny Loftus at Allmusic compared and contrasted her to Lucy Woodward when he reviewed Edge Of The Girl.)

Does anyone have any idea what became of Slate? Her album is 2003, and she hasn't posted on her MySpace blog since 2006. Google is no help (at least not the first 80 links), though it did turn up an interview with Hollywood Records A&R guy Jason Jordan who said that Alexandra Slate and Tina Sugandh were a couple of brilliant signings of his that never saw the light of day. (The interview reads as if it had been conducted in some language other than English and then translated.)

*Kara is perfectly capable of indirection; at least I've never really figured out "Avalanche," other than that it seems to be about the frustrations of falling in love with a dreamer, or something.

**EDIT: Actually, "Clumsy On The Wall" is also on the album as a hidden track, though I only found that out from cheapo Russian download sites; neither Allmusic nor Amazon list it.

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