Mutya Buena Dropped

[Melover]

Song 4 Mutya, Breakdown Motel, Strung Out, It's Not Easy, and Wonderful were gorgeous songs.

Yeah...
These should have been the singles (with heavy promotion).
But I don't think it would make much difference... she didn't care about it anyway.

[Tommie]

Has Siobhan still got her contract?

Yes, she's working with some dance producers currently and she's allegedly hoping to have something out by autumn.

[CardboardBox]

Has Siobhan still got her contract?

From her official Website:

Work starts on the new album next week and there'll be lots of exciting things to look forward to in 2008, along with a few surprises! Keep checking back for all the latest on the new album and be sure to subscribe to Shiv's MySpace blog to read all the latest goings on in camp Siobhan!

So that's good. But I'm glad Mutya was dropped, I thought the album was OK, but seriously not what I was expecting. She has a distinctive voice (pity about the personality), and I thought we were gonna get something along the lines of Siobhan's innovation. I imagine (hope, actually) that she gets a kick up the hole from someone and comes back having put slightly more effort in!

[L.A. Told Me]

Her album was alright, but not as good as I expected.

That sums the whole thing up for me. The whole project was lazy.

I had massive hopes for Mutya, maybe they were too high.

[KaMZ]

Thinking about her flopping singles, "B Boy Baby" should have been a much bigger hit, with or without the beehive.

It's such a great song, taking a retro feel, classic R'n'B and putting a modern twist on it with the lyrics and her spoken verses. Shame...

[Kirkland]

Her last two singles bombed and she had not been turning up to gigs saying she was ill and going out clubbing instead. With her attitude and bad singles I'm really not surprised.

And yet I can't bring myself to hate her.  Not when she's going clubbing instead of doing gigs.


I wouldn't write Mutya off, not yet.  She could make a career out of collaborating with every dance act on the planet and touring with them thereby getting to indulge in her favourite past-time that is clubbing.

[yyttrrss1010]

How many singers come out of bands and make a successful career for themselves? Hardly any.

[Maureen]

How many singers come out of bands and make a successful career for themselves? Hardly any.

Well, quite, but we're not talking about Lisa Scott-Lee. Mutya was supposed to the exception. She had critical acclaim, a lot of support from fans but ultimately the shittest material. Shame. *flush*

[Robinho#1]

I never knew she was not attending the gigs or showing up to the promotions. I thought her leaving the Babes would give her the opportunity to go @ her own pace. Clearly that excuse she used when existing the group wasn't the whole story. She still gets royalties from the label though so she won't be broke but seriously she needs to get her act together.

[BeingBoring]

Not surprising but definitely a shame. She has a fantastic voice and she's very unique but she's never once come across pleased for the support and praise she gets from people, and like someone else said if she can't be arsed, why should we?

[Victor Fairbanks]

Her next album will be sharia-gospel

this is its cover

[Popfiend]

I think that Mutya was expecting the level of success she had with the Sugababes.

When it didn't happen...she became bored with it.

[Miss Ninah Shameless]

i don't know which is more disapointing, her shit album or learning that she's been dropped.


don't react now
you can't go back now
don't panic panic mutya just look ahead now

[xenomania]

I see that some of you are thinking that a disagreeable Mutya caused her record company to bail, but I think a lot of it is on the other side as well; Mutya could have been all lollipops and rainbows, but after seeing that her record label would barely spare a tenner for her videos, and that her singles were being outsold by X-Factor fifth runners-up, she probably got disenchanted with her record label and a promotional tour that she felt was going nowhere and acheiving nothing.  She could have fought for it and it seems as if she didn't, but much of the culpability lies with the record company, who squandered some amazing songs.  And with PopJustice for not building "Song 4 Mutya" up enough earlier in 2007.

[BreakinDishes]

The only thing I can say is...it's about time.