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Ivor Novello Awards 2021: Songwriter of The Year to be voted for by academy members for first time in 20 years
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Singing legend Tom Jones will be on stage at Custom House Square
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When Elvis Costello jumped to the defence of the singer Olivia Rodrigo this week, he inadvertently exposed the faultlines in the debate over what constitutes pop plagiarism.
Rodrigo’s album Sour has dominated the mid-year best of lists with its lyrics about Gen-Z apathy, acrimonious breakups and “cathartic rage”, but she has also faced criticism.
Courtney Love accused her of “bad form” because artwork used to promote Rodrigo’s Sour Prom concert film looked very similar to the cover of Live Through This by Love’s band Hole.
Costello, meanwhile, said similarities between Rodrigo’s song Brutal and his 1978 hit Pump It Up were “fine by me”.
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Five years ago, Laura Mvula seemed set to become a huge star. The Birmingham singer s second album, The Dreaming Room, won a prestigious Ivor Novello award, and she became a firm favourite of Elton John and Prince.
The latter covered one of her songs, Green Garden, and offered regular advice before his death in 2016.
But wider success proved elusive, leaving the classically-trained Mvula fearing for her future. Was her piano-led soul and jazz too complex for the charts? Had that notoriously difficult second album derailed her career and, as she entered her 30s, was she simply too old to be pop ? Riddled with doubt, she went back to the drawing board her laptop and portable keyboard and came up with a stunning reinvention.
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