A Little Deeper - Ms Dynamite

Not that it’s any of your concern, but hip-hop and garage are not genres of music I’ve ever been greatly interested in. But I’m young. I want a culture of my own. I want to hear exciting music from my time and place, because, like it or not, this is my time and place, and the question that keeps surfacing in my mind is this: your generation had Led Zeppelin and The Doors, your generation had The Sex Pistols and Joy Division, your generation had the New Romantics, yours had Madchester and trance. What, pray tell, does that leave us? Certainly nothing to do with rock and roll, that’s for sure. Rock is riding increasingly shallow ...

In the last few years, it seems that a new female artist is hailed as the next big thing only to disappear and not live up to the high expectations which were laid firmly on her shoulders. I name Alisha Keys, Lauryn Hill and Nelly Furtado as three of those artists. This year, it seems to be Ms Dynamite and in America, Norah Jones. There is no doubt they are both extremely talented, but I think that Ms Dynamite, or Niomi McLean-Daley as her friends and family call her, is the most exciting artist to enter the charts for a good few years. Her timing is perfect. At a time when urban music is reaching higher levels of popularity all the time, her style is less ...

With the growing interest in Urban music ms.dynamite coudn't have come at a better time.Or could she?After all with all the acts around wouldn't she get swamped in it and go unoticed?I mean she's not beautiful,she doesn't parade around in a short skirt and tit tape and she doesn't have a boyfreind to use as a publicity accesorie,so how the hell did 'a little deeper',her debut album,get a mercury music prize nomination and win? well the answer is pretty staright forward.'a little deeper'is a brilliant record and I recomend to everyone to buy it. Yes,north londoner noami mclean daley(as she would be known in the ...