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[patrick boo]

So, Kate Nash eh? Are you in love with the cow-eyed flame barnetted over-enuniator or does she make you want to eat your own eyes? I have decided that, having hung around long enough in HMV to have an educated opinion, I love her songs, I love her style, I just can't abide the delivery. Maybe we could get Marnie Nixon in to re-record the vocals.

[Sam the Eagle]

She really pisses me off. She's only on her second single and she has completely sold out her musical style. 'Caroline Is A Victim' - while itself kinda shit, showed real musical promise. There was a distinctive style, electropoptacular; however it didn't sell very well alas. Thus the record label, with Ms. Nash's full co-operation transformed her into this attempted angsty, yet over pronouncing, summer-dress sporting, fringe-loving freak that she is today.

Foundations... is an AMAZING song. However Ms. Nash, once again channeling said Lily-Allen-a-like, manages to spoil it by opening her mouth. She doesn't sing like she used to. She doesn't speak like she used to. And it is this style that completely ruins it. However there is promise there. All you have to do is look 3:25 into the song right to the end. Musical amazingness. No Nash. There is more angst and compasson in those 20 seconds than in the entire rest of the song, and more than likely in the entire album put together. Grrr.

It kinda hurts me that she is sat on my itunes library slap bang between the absolute wonder that is Kate Bush, and an artist who actually stuck to their recording ethos... Kate Ryan.

[RockAustin]

I would describe lemons as sour rather than bitter.

[Jesus.H.Christ]

She sounds like a cross between Lily Allen and Anthony and the Johnsons.

[glennbuchan]

you dont know if you want to take a spade to her face or give her a cuddle, the confusion is too hard to take.

"kate gash"

-lol

[Wendy Moon]

At first I didn't know if I loved or hated her, but the more I look into those eyes (and dresses!) I know that it's love.

[patrick boo]

I think I'd like her to start wearing stovepipe hats. It's just a feeling I get.

[Sam the Eagle]

Like the cat in the hat?

Oooh she could run with that. The Kate in the Hat(e)

[666]

Sam has a very valid and sensible point of view.
i mean, im totally bumming (not literally obv.) kate nash and have done for a while because she has a good voice, writes clever songs and so on...
when the whole common-accent hipster-scene down in london implodes, she will be one of the few left standing on the ground of her voice and songwriting ability.
i look past the spoken banter in her songs with humour...it makes a nice change

excerpt from the guardian web:

"Just as I was getting bored of Dan Le Sac vs Scroobious Pip's Thou Shalt Always Kill - bored by Pip's "poetry" and irritated by the tune itself, and it's only released today - along comes LDN Is A Victim.

It's a similar kind of thing involving a jaunty electronic beat and someone talking over the top, and both tunes have been hammered by the taste-makers on Radio 1. This time around, though, the joke is pretty close to home, as the LDN song is one, long piss-take at the expense of the capital's scenesters. The action kicks off at YoYo in Notting Hill, the club run by Lily Allen's boyfriend, record exec Seb Chew, and the girl herself is there, having a pop at Adele and Kate Nash, in the company of Mark Ronson and Future Cut. Then on to the Garage in Highbury to see the ever-so-hot Remi Nicole.

Jack Penate "and his public school rock'n'roll crew" are also present, "saying things like 'It's soooo rock'n'roll, it's awesome, groovy,' but what do they know, this is middle-class, art school thing, yeah?" And so on ... The point being that the satire is spot on. But is anyone complaining? As yet, no one knows who's responsible for the tune, but LDN Is A Victim can count Lily, Adele, the Klaxons, Mr Hudson and the Library and more - in fact, every act mentioned in the song - among their friends on their MySpace page. Even Jack Penate represents. He does have a problem, but he makes his point so, so politely: "Wicked tune man, thanks for the shout, only problem is I'm middle class!"

The real problem is, as someone who is genuinely excited by all these acts, what am I supposed to make of it? Perhaps it's just a case of this particular scene being a victim of its own success. And waddya know? It's not even the first such satire. The band Hadouken - Home Counties types who went to Leeds University - recently mined much the same territory on That Boy That Girl."

[patrick boo]

Funny isn't it - the internet was meant to expand our outlook, make the world bigger for us all, but what do we do? live in tinier bubbles than before...