Thursday, August 11, 2005

Dy na mi tee hee


News on Ms. Dynamite's forthcoming release, Judgement Day, from today's Telegraph (bottom of the page):

"Judging by the material I heard at a session in the Abbey Road studio last week, motherhood has not mellowed her. She still can't quite contain the bashful giggle that became her trademark ("Ms Dynamite-tee-hee") but her new single, Judgement Day (out late September), is a hard-hitting, self-righteous assault on moral hypocrisy worthy of the young Bob Dylan.

The album of the same name (which follows in October) could herald the return of the protest song, with Ms Dynamite tackling gun crime, self-destructiveness within Britain's black community and the problem of absentee fathers in the lacerating Father. Even the devoted mother who single-handedly raised her does not escape unscathed."

Here's hoping Judgement Day lives up to the promise shown in 2002's A Little Deeper. Given the attention given recently to M.I.A. and Lady Sovereign, certainly the market is quite receptive to female UK MCs at the moment.

Ms. Dynamite (official site)