Music « Alison Garwood-Jones

Spotlight: vanishing accents

Originally published in April 2013 in Blog

SPOTLIGHT is Society Pages’ newest column focusing on questionable occurrences I’ve been covering music, and especially music and the internet, a fair bit lately. Here’s a piece I published last year that tackles the mystery of singing and accents. Enjoy! In 1981, Sheena Easton was a 22-year old club kid with a glossy pout and a Lady Di shag [...]

Update on Emma-Lee

Originally published in April 2013 in Blog

When you start here, as the singer Emma-Lee did back in the early noughties … … and end up here, on the billboard at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto: You know the reversal in the music industry is complete. I wrote about Emma-Lee’s rise to prominence — starting on My Space, then YouTube — in [...]

Riding the tube

Originally published in November 2012 in Blog

Photography by Emma-Lee was propositioned by a guitar picker this summer. Or, rather, the writer in me was. And that’s “ghitaahr pick’r,” if you say it like you’re June Carter Cash, as I’m wont to do. Music biopics, especially Walk The Line, and classics in rock journalism by the likes of Al Aronowitz and Nick Hornby have [...]

Spotlight: Vanishing accents

Originally published in April 2012 in Blog

I’ve been covering music, and especially music and the internet, a fair bit lately. Here’s a piece I published last year that tackles the mystery of singing and accents. Enjoy! SPOTLIGHT is Society Pages’ newest column focusing on questionable occurrences In 1981, Sheena Easton was a 22-year old club kid with a glossy pout and [...]

Newspapers of yore had "Society Pages." By and for women, they tackled everything from recipes and hemline lengths to royal weddings and Hollywood gossip. True to my predecessors, I've lunched with the Lauders, interviewed the Kennedys and deconstructed deviled eggs (as as one would expect of a "pearly girl" and a former editor at Elle). But this blog goes beyond trailing A-listers. Here I get to muddle over human nature and ask all the questions we're thinking when we're not in polite company.