Talk:Benjamin Clementine

A fact from Benjamin Clementine appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 January 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Benjamin Clementine was discovered by a record company agent while busking on the Paris Metro?

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Seriously, who wrote this shit? My favorite part is that there's a section titled "Curse of a vagabond".67.232.102.140 (talk) 21:42, 21 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please please please, can someone who knows how this works get rid of the bit saying that Bjork likes him. The footnote provided merely shows that he is playing at the same Festival. I sincerely doubt that Bjork has an interest in such a mildly talented over-rated joke of a musician. 195.91.238.177 (talk) 21:19, 22 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tone Clean Up - overly promotional[edit]

I've tagged the article with Template:Tone as it really needs to be cleaned up. It often reads as either a promotional press release, or as an editorial. Wikipedia isn't a free advertising billboard; this is supposed to be an objective source of information. If I find the time I'll get stuck in to editing it, but if anybody else can chip in that'd be grand. 80.193.25.91 (talk) 22:23, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've edited the article some more and feel the overall tone is much better than it was. I'm hoping my edits won't be reverted by the particular user who seems reluctant to see the article improved. 80.193.25.91 (talk) 07:14, 29 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Having attempted to clean up the article's tone further, I had my edits reverted by User:86.187.161.171 and was accused of an 'assault' on the article. My only intention is to avoid overly promotional PR tone in articles for musicians, since Wikipedia isn't a billboard advertisement. Lines like: "most critics have honoured him citing and describing him as a man of unusual intelligence, great piano style and deep musicality with charisma on stage but nonetheless, found it difficult to place his music in one specific genre, mostly stating that its rather beyond category" are problematic because they aren't supported by any of the citations and are inappropriate in tone 80.193.25.91 (talk) 15:46, 10 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

More than four years later, this article still reads like it was written by Clementine's press agent. Definitely not NPOV, and badly needs revising, particularly for length. There are actors and musicians who have been much more prominent in history than this relative nobody, and yet their article are brief paragraphs. Strongly suggest the article be rewritten down to bare facts and then locked to prevent either Mr. Clementine or his fanboys from altering it again. 2603:7080:8040:EE00:0:0:0:2 (talk) 23:39, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Pronunciation[edit]

It says here English pronunciation: /ˈbɛndʒəmɪn ˈsən ˈkləməntɪn/; born 7 December 1988

but I think it should be /ˈbɛndʒəmɪn ˈsən ˈklɛməntɪn/ - schwa can't be stressed in English.

Hence it probably should be /ˈbɛndʒəmɪn sən ˈklɛməntɪn/ without stress before /sən/.

Wathiik (talk) 13:14, 28 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Weird phrasing[edit]

'In his teens he had caught avant-garde French composers like Erik Satie and Claude Debussy'... 'He accompanies on hypnotic piano vamps with mostly minimal instruments ranging from little voice breaths, a brushing of coat for percussion as in his song "Edmonton", to a vicious string stride confrontation in his song "Adios".'

What in blue hell is most of this supposed to mean? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.109.219.17 (talk) 00:50, 16 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Vocal Range[edit]

His vocal range in the article is described as C3-D5 (without a citation), however on his song Phantom of Aleppoville his voice ranges from E2-C#6. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chukulem (talk • contribs) 16:50, 21 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]