Borrell to blame for bad Razorlight reviews
November 17, 2008 by Kane Fulton
Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell has said that many critics aren’t giving his band’s new album, ‘Slipway Fires’, a chance because they don’t like him as a person. He told The Daily Star: “I’m not happy with the reviews on the whole because I don’t think people have given the album a chance. A couple sounded like they hadn’t even bothered listening to it. If I go to a gig and see a band I don’t like, at least I can be objective, but it seems people want to believe the crap that’s written about me. But the haters aren’t going to win”.
He added that he thinks those “haters” are just following a great British tradition of slagging people off when they become successful. He continued: “I’ve spoken to superstars in many different fields - art, music, film - and what they’ve all said to me is: ‘Hello, this is the famous English backlash’. All I want to do is give the fans a great album. What we’ve recorded is an honest album with no preconceptions. I believe it will resonate in time”.
That said, he did once write the lyric, “I met a girl, she asked me my name, I told her what it was”, so he probably should take some of the blame for the band’s previous bad reviews, even if he’s made up for it on this new album.
But whether or not it’s people’s dislike for his lyrics, his success or his personality, if it’s him that’s holding the band back from further success, shouldn’t he just quit the band and go solo? Apparently he doesn’t agree, though. Asked if rumours that he is going to go it alone are true, he said: “It’s total rubbish. I’ve never said I want to release a solo album. But it doesn’t matter if I say a hundred times ‘I’m in a band’, nobody wants to listen. Noel Gallagher writes the songs for Oasis but he doesn’t get the amount of flak I get. It’s like when somebody asks to photograph Razorlight for a magazine we’ll say: ‘Yes put the band on the front’, but then they go and use a picture of just me and then people have a pop at me for it. People prefer to think I’m always throwing a strop but I’m committed to this band”.
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