Amy Studt – My Paper Made Men
England’s answer to Avril Lavigne, Amy Studt, was signed to Polydor after recording her first demos aged just 14. Hits included ‘Just A Little Girl’ and ‘Misfit’, but subsequent singles were greeted by diminished sales, and Studt was promptly dropped.
‘My Paper Made Men’ is the Myspace-aided comeback. At 22-years-old now, Studt’s angst is now a little more adult; on digital-release single ‘Furniture’, for instance, she sings about an empty grown-up relationship. But it’s still angst, and wholly predictable stuff that seems wholly targeted at the adolescent girl demographic. Apart from some cut-and-paste strings and keyboard intros, there is also little musical experimentation here, especially considering Studt is described as a multi-instrumentalist in her various hyperbole-laden biographies available online. The long and short of it is that on her melancholy piano ballads, Studt sounds like either Vanessa Carlton, or Amy Lee from Evanescence without the nu-metal edge; and on her rockier guitar anthems, she sounds like Avril Lavigne without the pop songs.
By Ryan Daff
