Sandi Thom

  • 01 February 2007

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Six Real Songs About Pregnancy And Parenthood That Ring So True

By Holly Mosley in Music / Festivals on 03 September 2021

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From Halsey to Foo Fighters, these tracks tell a parent’s story with raw honesty.

With the recent release of Halsey’s inspirational new album If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power, produced by Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, we have been reflecting on the world of motherhood - which is one thing that remains just as difficult whether or not you are a famous popstar.

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These musicians have written some of the most authentic songs about motherhood and pregnancy you’ll probably ever hear.

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Five More One-Hit Wonders Of The Noughties

By Ed Biggs in Music / Festivals on 22 November 2015

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A tribute to some of our favourite blink-and-you'll-miss-them superstars of the '00s.

Noughties one-hit wonder Sandi Thom recently got her name into the headlines for the first time in nearly a decade last week.

Sadly, it was not for reasons she would have wanted, as her tearful, expletive-strewn rant on Facebook went viral as she attacked radio playlisters for rejecting her new single ‘Earthquake’. Thom, now 35, had a chart-topping single back in 2006 with ‘I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair)’, but has struggled to have anywhere near the same success since.

Image caption Sandi Thom, one of the best examples of a 'one-hit wonder' during the 2000s

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One-Hit Wonder Sandi Thom Breaks Down In Facebook Video After Radio Rejection Of New Single

By Ed Biggs in Music / Festivals on 12 November 2015

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The singer, who found instant success with her first single in 2006, has struggled for the same exposure ever since, and in a new video she claimed she's had enough of the industry after the rejection of new song 'Earthquake'.

Scottish singer-songwriter Sandi Thom, the fleetingly successful pop star of the mid-noughties, has launched a Facebook rant at radio stations who have refused to playlist her new song and seems to have quit the industry altogether.

Those of you with long musical memories may recall Thom, the archetypal one-hit wonder who rocketed to stardom back in 2006 with her first single ‘I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair)’. That success also shifted over 300,000 copies of her debut album Smile… It Confuses People.

However, she’s suffered declining commercial fortunes in the subsequent nine years, with only two of her last 12 singles charting in the UK, and the rejection of her latest single ‘Earthquake’ appears to have broken her spirit altogether, as she posted a tearful and foul-mouthed video venting spleen at the BBC and commercial radio conglomerate Bauer.

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