Elle of the Ball: 10's

Sunday, January 10, 2010

To die by your side well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine

So I was going to dedicate two posts to music however, upon trying to create the 'music peeps I think will be big in 2010 and so forth' I realised that I cannot possibly predict such a thing.

I mean, there could be musical prodigies in the making who have not yet realised that they are in fact musical prodigies and, for the most part are currently concerned with, homework and hitting puberty and getting bullied and having their first kiss all so that they can write deeply soul-searching songs that will no doubt influence the decade of 2010.

So, for now, I'll let them get on with it and instead I give you one post of music which influenced the 00's and that which I believe has the ability to continue to influence the 10's.

2000

Bloc Party

Quality music which I personally, believe has staying power. Unfortunately, their record company didn't and it would seem Bloc Party will be no more. (For the forseeable future anyway)

Coldplay

Personally, not a fan. Whiny and pretentious in my opinion and yet, I can't deny that they played their part in defining the 00's musically. Hate them nonetheless.

The Killers

Started the decade in an amazing fashion. Mr Brightside a tune of timeless quality. Unfortunately, their success began to deteriorate towards the end. A revival could be on the cards for this decade, I wouldn't put money on that though.

Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Big in the early 90's, even bigger in the early 00's. Pure magic and then they disappeared. Come back! (That's directed at you Frusciante)

The White Stripes

Elephant was a decent album but, with the absence of Meg I think the band will remain in the 00's. Hopefully, Jack and either The Raconteurs or Dead Weather can keep the music alive. (God, that is a terribly cheesy sentence)

Damien Rice

Where'd you go? Soulful, acoustic, beautiful. Stop letting Lisa Hannigan fill the void and release another album before it's too late Damo.

Ok, those bands are pretty much left behind in the 00's. Well, maybe not Coldplay but, we live in hope.

2010

Arctic Monkeys

Everyone loved them, Alex let his hair grow out and then everything changed, the music remained at it's unparalleled standard of brilliance. The lyrics man, the freakin' lyrics.

Mumford and Sons

Personal favourite. Only came into focus towards the end of 09 and hopefully they are a herald of great music set to grace Ear Candy lists into 2010.

Bon Iver

Formed in 06. Album is called For Emma, naturally this curries certain favour when compiling this post. I like things with my name on.

Florence and the Machine

Much internal deliberating over whether or not to include Ms Welch. I fear that there is the potential to go in the same vein as The Killers, and start off with phenomenal success only to fail to live up. However, love conquers all and thus, she made the cut.

Editors

Big in 00's and with a new album in the process of development I can only imagine they will continue in their success. Remind me of a modern day Smiths, which is quite an accomplishment. Although, I'm sure many would disagree with me on such a comparison.

The XX

Going to absolutely take off in the next while, so soon that it has already started. Amazing band.

Two Door Cinema Club

You may have not heard of them yet, but u shall. Incredible.

There are a million more but, hope you find something new anyway!

Enjoy!

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Caught on the wrong side of mortality and youth

In continuation of the Style commemoration I give you the people I believe have the potential to begin to, or continue to influence the next decade of style and fashion.

2010's Style

Carine Roitfield and those behind the scenes of the fashion industry

Carine is incredible, so too is Emmanuelle Alt and Giovanna Battaglia and Anna Wintour and so on so forth. I find it incredible that women who are so influential in the process of bringing the catwalk to our living room (or even dentist waiting room), the people who essentially make fashion accessible, are so greatly unappreciated as style icons themselves. This should indeed be the decade where these women come out from beyond the pages of the magazines and become recognisible beyond thesartorialist.com or style.com and allow their own personal style to influence the masses.

Julia Restoin-Roitfeld

She can steal her mothers clothes. Nuff said.

Suri Cruise

She's 3, she wears heels. It's gonna be big.

Lila Grace Moss

See Julia Restoin-Roitfeld

Lily Collins

One of the Nickelodeon crew. They beat the Disney mob, in that they can come out the other side of the association with the network relatively unscathed style wise.

Michelle Obama

The woman is class personified. Plus with another few years in the White House I'm sure she has some beautiful outfits lined up. Plus she already has a Vogue cover under her belt. Plus shes a contender in the race against Carla Bruni for most stylish first lady. Plus I love her.

Nicola Roberts

I live in the vain hope that, should Girls Aloud get back together, people will realise that Nicola Roberts is, in fact the most stylish member of the band and, that Cheryl Cole has a frickin' stylist!!

Dakota Fanning

Came into focus in the New Moon promotional tour but, also had an incredible Teen Vogue shoot which, although I'm aware it was not self-styled, it was just so fabulous that it deserves a mention. Plenty more to come from this one me thinks.

The Bloggers

Style blogs only really became uber relevant in the last decade and, as far as I can tell that is only set to continue into the next decade. It's hard to pick a selection to mention so instead I'll name no names!