Dear Frustrated Superstar

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Dear Frustrated Superstar
Studio album by Nerina Pallot

Publication
(s)

2001/2006

Label (s) Polydor

Format (s)

CD , MC

Genre (s)

Folk rock  / pop

Title (number)

13/14/16

running time

1:02:32, 1:13:15 / 1:05:15 / 1:13:27

occupation

production

Jeremy Stacey

chronology
- Dear Frustrated Superstar Fires
(2005)

Dear Frustrated Superstar is the first album by the British singer-songwriter Nerina Pallot . Over 10,000 copies of the debut album were sold in the UK.

history

Her mentor Andrew King (ex-manager of The Clash and Ian Dury ) instructed the musician Nerina Pallot to place her demos at various record companies. In fact, the musician receives a contract with the Universal subsidiary Polydor Records . King has concerns, but Pallot ignores them. Dear Frustrated Superstar finally released on August 20, 2001 . As a promotion, Pallot was allowed to appear in the music show Live and Kicking , but was ousted by Faye Tozer (ex- Steps ) in front of the camera. After a modest chart entry at number 82, the album is classified by Polydor as a commercial failure. Pallot does not agree to a marketing campaign with a kind of remix album and falls out with the responsible A & Rs . In the course of this, she was removed from the opening act for the Bryan Adams tour and finally terminated. Nerina Pallot initially withdrew into private life before she was able to start a comeback in 2005 with the self- released album Fires .

In the wake of the commercial success of the follow-up album Fires in 2006 to re-issue released as bonus tracks, the two songs that The Girl from Lakeville and 57 Flavors (The Height of Bad Behavior) contains the previously only as a B-side of the single Alien were available .

List of titles

Below are the title directories of the original version of Dear Frustrated Superstar and the re-issue , the so-called re-issue version. The songs in bold indicate the singles that have been released.

Original version Re-issue version
  1. If I Know You - 6:13
  2. Solitaire - 4:29
  3. Someday Soon ( Jason Rebello ) [a] - 4:46
  4. Watch Out Billie (Jeremy Stacey) - 4:39
  5. Daily Bread (Jeremy Stacey) - 4:48
  6. Rainbow - 4:45
  7. Alien - 4:54
  8. Jump - 4:15
  9. Very Good Sir - 4:17
  10. Dear Frustrated Superstar - 4:16
  11. Blood Is Blood - 4:03
  12. God - 5:39
  13. My Last Tango [b] - 5: 26/16: 10
  14. Daphne and Apollo [c] - 2:44
  1. If I Know You - 6:13
  2. Solitaire - 4:29
  3. Someday Soon (Jason Rebello) - 4:46
  4. Watch Out Billie (Jeremy Stacey) - 4:39
  5. Daily Bread (Jeremy Stacey) - 4:48
  6. Rainbow - 4:45
  7. Alien - 4:54
  8. Jump - 4:15
  9. Very Good Sir - 4:17
  10. Dear Frustrated Superstar - 4:16
  11. Blood Is Blood - 4:03
  12. God - 5:39
  13. My Last Tango - 5:26
  14. Daphne and Apollo [d] - 2:44
  15. The Girl from Lakeville [d] - 3:38
  16. 57 Flavors (The Height of Bad Behavior) [d] - 4:34
[a] The names of the respective co-composers are given in the round brackets, all other songs were written by Pallot alone.
[b] The longer version contains a hidden track . After eight minutes of silence, this contains the song Daphne and Apollo .
[c] Another album version that lists the bonus track Daphne and Apollo directly and without a hidden track.
[d] Bonus tracks are included as standard in the re-issue version. The Girl from Lakeville and 57 Flavors (The Height of Bad Behavior) were taken from the B-side songs of the single Alien .

Music genre

Nerina Pallot combines different styles of music on her debut album, with the focus on folk rock in the style of Joni Mitchell . Most of the songs are only accompanied by a piano or guitar. The album also contains borrowings from electronic music , for example elements of trip-hop and various samples with the help of synthesizers and drum computers . There are also influences from pop music . Pallot's singing is high, but still powerful and warm. The musical style has often been compared with Alanis Morissette , Tori Amos , Dido , Kate Bush and Shawn Colvin . The lyrics are about Pallot's view of the world and her pursuit of success.

Charts

album

year title Chart positions Worldwide
sales 		annotation
UK
2001 Dear Frustrated Superstar (82) 10,000 First published: August 20, 2001
Re-issue: May 1, 2006
Legend: The chart positions given in round brackets missed the official charts, but reached places in the extended chart lists.

Singles

The two singles Patience and Alien were released from the album . The planned third release If I Know You was not published due to the termination of the contract with Polydor.

year title Chart positions annotation
UK
2001 patience 61 First published: August 6, 2001
Music video: Emma Hvengaard
2001 Alien (98) First published: November 12, 2001
Music video: unknown
Legend: The chart positions given in round brackets missed the official charts, but reached places in the extended chart lists.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Music Week: Chili Peppers and Gnarls Barkley top charts (English), May 28, 2006
  2. ↑ biography. Laut.de, accessed on May 25, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Simon Cosyns: The great fire. The Sun , April 21, 2006, accessed May 25, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Peter Marsh: Dear Frustrated Superstar Review. British Broadcasting Corporation , November 20, 2011, accessed May 25, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Album: Nerina Pallot, Dear Frustrated Superstar, Polydor. The Independent , August 17, 2001, accessed May 25, 2011 .
  6. ^ Siobhan Grogan: Nerina Pallot: Dear Frustrated Superstar. South London singer's neurotic debut. New Musical Express , August 17, 2001, accessed May 25, 2011 .
  7. ↑ Andrew Lynch: Nerina Pallot - Dear Frustrated Superstar. Entertainment.ie, August 23, 2001, accessed May 25, 2011 .
  8. ↑ Sajini Wijetilleka: Nerina Pallot: Dear Frustrated Superstar LP. Drowned in Sound, November 12, 2001; Retrieved May 25, 2011 .