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Joss Stone has taken a nasty dig at Lily Allen, calling her a “personality” rather than a singer.
Stone decided to take her frustrations out on Allen after Allen spearheaded a campaign against illegal file sharing. Stone insists that artists should just accept that they don’t need to earn a lot of money to enjoy what they’re doing. She added that Allen only started the campaign so that she could earn the brunt of her money on CD sales, instead of live concerts.
She said, “She needs to sell records because she’s not a singer, and that’s not an offense to her because I think she knows that, too. I think she’s a performer and she’s more of a personality than she is a singer. But I think when musicians are really making real music, people come to the show and that’s what we make our money from, from playing live. And I think it’s probably harder for an artist like Lily and any other pop acts. It’s really about the track and about their personality and their celebrity and that’s how they make their money is selling those records….Who said that musicians have to be millionaires? Who made this a rule? We don’t need that much money. We just don’t. We only need enough to make music and to eat and to go on tour.”
Take that Lily!
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