Tom Odell‘s father apparently called up the NME offices to complain about a particularly scathing review of his son’s debut album ‘Long Way Down‘.
In giving the record a rare 0/10 rating, Mark Beaumont described Odell as a ‘poor, misguided wannabe who’s fallen into the hands of the music industry equivalent of Hungarian sex traffickers’ in his review.
Lucy Jones, the deputy editor of NME’s website, revealed on Twitter that they had fielded a call from Odell Sr. after the review was published, and have subsequently justified it by saying you ‘can’t unhear’ the music.
“I wish I could say there’s a place in Hell reserved for Tom Odell,” another part of Beaumont’s review reads. “There’s not. Just loads more Brits. He’ll be all over 2013 like a virulent dose of musical syphilis, pounding and warbling away at every Papal election and Bradley Wiggins finishing line.”
Despite being the subject of NME’s ire, Tom Odell has enjoyed a swift rise to prominence during the past year thanks largely to glowing industry praise for early singles such as ‘Can’t Pretend‘ and ‘Sense‘.
In December 2012, he was confirmed to be the latest recipient of the Brits Critics’ Choice Award.
Do you really think that a 0/10 review would go unnoticed?
You must be joking. I’d check faster a 0/10 song than a 10/10!
The review is just unfair. Tom Odell didn’t reinvent the wheel with his music, but it’s not that bad. The NME people are arrogant music snobs who slag off anything which is not “indie”. They are not objective at all.