Bloody sadists

It's easy to hate VV Brown.

Sometime ago, she released something inexcusably bad called "Crying Blood", and it was so bad, as bad as Kate Nash was when she had the nerve to let out "Caroline's A Victim". "Crying Blood" wasn't bad in the sense that it was lazily made or badly written. It was bad because it was annoying and irritating and not something anyone would want to listen, and the music video was equally irritating as well. It was like Brown intentionally spent a few hours/days/weeks in the studio to come up with the musical equivalent of a mosquito.

God how easy it was to hate her. And when you hate someone, you tend to pick on every attribute the person has. Case in point, Brown's hair. It looked absolutely disgusting back then. It was ugly, silly, and a failed attempt at individualism.

Fast forward 5 months, and that same hair is something elegant, fashionable yet classy, adorable yet, pardon the expression, fierce. It was beautiful, simply put. And all of a sudden, Brown seems like a really attractive woman.

Why the sudden change of stance? Well, simply because of this over here.


© Island Records 2009

That was just unbelievable, given her debut single. Like we mentioned earlier, Kate Nash went through the same phase, releasing the outrageously perfect "Foundations" after her very bad debut. Maybe this is a pattern. A trend observable in future popstars perhaps.

In any case, "Shark In The Water" is undoubtedly brilliant, and will ensure VV Brown becomes permanently fixtured in the Top 20.