Nov 28, 2002 • 1 min read

Kelly bitches

Kelly Osbourne tells NME her record company vetoed her album title 'Buy Me' and complains that US radio files her as pop because she is a girl.

Kelly Osbourne has been doing what she does best, bitching, this time to the NME.

Talking about dealings with her record label she told the music paper: "I had a really obnoxious but honest name for the album. I was gonna call it 'Buy Me' because, y'know, if I didn't want to sell it to you, I'd give it to you for free. But my record company told me I was too precocious and they wouldn't let me call it that.”

On the mixed reaction of American radio stations she added: "If a boy sung the songs that I wrote, they'd be considered rock and played on (local Los Angeles hip radio station) KROQ and stations like that. But because I'm a girl, they're, like, 'Oh, she must be pop'. I'd have to sing a fucking death metal song and sacrifice animals onstage to make people think that I'm rock and I think that's kinda pathetic and disturbing."

Full interview is in this week’s NME

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