Talk:Duffy (singer)

Aimee/Amy?

Clicking on random references that are cited, Duffy's birth name is spelt as 'Amy' rather than 'Aimee'. I was just curious as to what the official spelling of her first name is? londonsista | ^Prod 19:58, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

If you check out one of the pay sites that give access to the official Register of Births, ancestry.com for example, then it's Aime - however that might well be a transcription error. Aimee has always used Aimee, the Amy versions are wrong for sure. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.25.109.195 (talk) 10:25, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

K, cheers for that! londonsista | ^Prod 05:04, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

I can confirm that the correct spelling is "Aimee", not Amie or Amy.

Unfortunately I couldn't find any source, but on a german television show (June, 10th; Viva Live) she seemed to be very surprised about her "name" in the internet. She said "Actually my name is Esmeralda. Don't trust the internet". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.173.125.77 (talk) 12:13, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

What about Aimée, as in the name of the album? Is there an accent on her name or not? -- pne (talk) 11:34, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Being compared to Dusty Springfield

About the recent added bit "a sound that has been compared to Dusty Springfield, although she sounds nothing like her." Being compared to Dusty Springfield by a verifiable source is OK. It only means someone observed a Dusty Springfield influence. You can think what you like! Though I did think Rockferry sounded like a Dusty song when I heard it just before.... —An Sealgair (talk) 10:23, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Date of birth

I changed the year of her date of birth to 1984. The only issue I seem to have with her birth date is that some sites seem to list it as June 1 while others seem to list it as June 23. Carface (talk) 07:42, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

It's definately June 23rd —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jojojojo84 (talk • contribs) 00:23, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

I can't find any source for June 23rd exempt from sites which copied the WP article -- Wickie37 (talk) 13:09, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Rockferry

A few of the sentences in the Rockferry section lean on the side of promotional rather than informative - suggest a rewrite of the Vodafone gig, backing band details & forthcoming single info to concentrate on Duffy's achievements rather than future events. Katstevens (talk) 13:28, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Good point Comix2008 (talk) 02:09, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Rockferry music video director?

I would like to add this information to the song's related article and Duffy's discography article, but cannot find who the director was. Thanks. -- Underneath-it-All ([[User talk:Underneath-it-All|tal There are only one life: reading in the sites of: Lisa Lavie: Free Your Mind: wishing you the best to the grammy awards: I. Title talk) 13:35, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Sounds like Amy Winehouse?

No. Duffy sounds like Duffy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.4.8.232 (talk) 18:30, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Confusion over new UK single

We seem to have two articles both saying different things about which song is the 4th UK single, one saying Serious, one Stepping Stone, can anybody clear this up? Breathe again (talk) 09:36, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Reads like a fanpage

The page has what reads to me as an excessive amount of detail on relatively minor parts of her life. It's sufficient to say, and source, that she's on tour. Every single city is not necessary, nor is a one-off interview about her stance on downloading. If she starts or joins a campaign, or makes a point of advocating, then it might be appropriate. WLU (talk) 14:28, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Touring should probably have its own section as it does in many other articles. Downloading is a major issue affecting the industry she works in and her opinion about it is article worthy. If you wait for her or anybody to join an organization supporting legalization of all downloading you will most likely wait forever as most people just do that type of thing. Making a public statement is as much advocacy as joining a campaign Edkollin (talk) 14:23, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

But the assertion that she supported illegal downloading was sourced to an extremely short article (in a RS though), with maybe five two-sentence paragraphs. It's not like it's a major discussion or anything. I'd wait until another interview supported it again; lots of celebrities say lots of things, but we don't know if it's a throw-away comment or a deeply-felt conviction. At minimum I'd say it should not go in its own separate section (lots of stubby sections in the page), if you really feel strongly about replacing the info, perhaps in an appropriate place in the body? The article really reads like it was written piecemeal, with sort sections, single-sentence paragraphs, etc. A touring section might be a good idea, as right now the touring and festivals are spearated when they could easily and appropriately be linked together. WLU (talk) 16:22, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

I put all(hopefully) the touring information in a touring section. As for illegal downloading like you said we likely never know for sure how serious she is. That is true for most quotes in any article.. You could reasonable conclude that the lack of further comment means she does not have strong convictions on the topic and I can argue she was told to shut up by her label. It is not our job to figure that out to do so is original research. What made it article worthy to me was the subject matter. But I did take your suggestion and put the comment under endorsements. I really do not know if that is an improvement. The problem here is that she is a new artist thus many unrelated article worthy topics will have one or two sentences worth of article worthy material.

An area to look at is that each chart position has one or two sentences. Edkollin (talk) 21:17, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

007 film

Isn't there talk of Duffy singing the next Bond film's theme song? Or am I imagining things? St91 (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 21:04, 16 September 2008 (UTC).

Tadaa... http://www.nme.com/news/duffy/38217 St91 (talk) 21:10, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

You weren't imagining things there was a lot of speculation that she was in the running to write the song but Alicia Keys and Jack White got the gig [1] Edkollin (talk) 04:58, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

I heard it today as well - Duffy would have been much better :) St91 (talk) 19:33, 18 September 2008 (UTC)