Sep 28, 2006 • 1 min read

Jarvis Cocker criticises Razorlight

Jarvis Cocker has criticised Razorlight in an NME interview for being too career-minded, saying music should be about something emotional, ahead of his solo debut album in November.

Jarvis Cocker has had a go at Razorlight, for being too 'big business' about their 'craft'. My words, not his, those. Cocker, is, as previously reported, releasing his debut solo album in November - but I'm sure this 'outburst' has nothing to do with that. Except, of course, that he was speaking in a new interview in NME, which probably happened because he's releasing his debut solo album in November. You following this, yes?

Anyway, he says: "I've always liked people who mess up. I don't like career people - it doesn't seem very appropriate when it comes to music which is about something emotional. Reading an interview with Razorlight is just like reading 'The Economist', saying 'Yeah, well we're going to be really big in America and we think this album's going to follow up the next one' - that's what the record company should be saying, not the people in the band."

He continued: "And even The Rapture, who I like, there was an article about them I read which just seemed to be about them being managed by the same people who manage U2. I just thought 'Why do I want to know that?' That's not what music's about."

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