Why Critics HATED Lenny Kravitz

Why Critics hated Lenny Kravitz music.

Rockstar Lenny Kravitz has had a pretty impressive career staying relevant for nearly 4 decades and selling over 50 million albums worldwide. He’s also branched out into hollywood, appearing in blockbuster films and honestly he looks incredible for his age, given he’s in an industry where alcohol and drugs frequently take their toll. But it wasn’t an easy road for the musician who had to fight tooth and nail to be taken seriously, Not only that but, being mixed race the media, which loves to label people, didn’t know what to ake of him. In todays video, let’s talk about why critics didn’t count themselves a fan of lenny kravitz early in his career

Growing up in both los angeles and new york, Kravitz by the age of 10 was already playing guitar and writing his own songs. His mother Roxie Roker was on the tv show the Jeffersons, while his father Sy Kravitz was an executive at cbs. He would be mixed racee - being half black and half jewish. He would learn classical music and would perform wit hthe california boys choir and even recorded with Zubin Mehta. HBut by the time he attended beverly hills highschool - which was also attended by future guns n’ roses guitarist Slash, actress Gina Gershon and actor Nicolas Cage, Kravitz initially had aspirations of being a session musician, but by the time he graduated from high school he realized he he wanted to become a star in his own right and not go to college. Kravitz’s father agreed to support his son’s aspirations and took the money he set aside for his college fund to book studio time to do some recordings. It was early in his career, Kravitz used the moniker Romeo Blue. Kravitz was a fan of using vintage recording equipment and real instruments in the studio.

It was between the time he graduated high school and the late 80’s Kravitz got numerous offers from record labels, turning all but one of them down. He would tell the kansas city star “they wanted trendy black music, which i hate. They’d say ‘this is too white. You have to get your black base first. Then you can cross over. They want everyone black to get a drum machine and make a funk record. That was a big issue. What i’m doing is black music anyway. Rhythm and blues, rock and roll.” Kravitz would end up signing a deal with virgin records.

In 85 Kravitz would meet his future first wife, Cosby Show star Lisa Bonet, and the two would eventually get married having a daughter, Zoe. . Kravitz would tell the associated press how crazy the media attention was before he even released his first record recalling “being that i was married to her, people were interested in what i was doing. I was on the cover of all these magazines, just because i was married to her. Who is this guy? Adding what if i came to see you because your wife is so and so. If that’s what brings people out, fine. But I’ve got something to say. I’m not interested in being mr. bonet.“”.

It was in 1989 Kravitz released his debut album Let Love Rule, with Kravitz producing the work, writing all the songs, playing almost all the instruments and bonet co-writing two songs. It was at the urging of his label, he dropped the name romeo blue and went back to lenny kravitz. The album was a hit in american and overseas. Kravitz would cite john lennon, bob marley, lou reed and jimi hendrix as the main influences on his debut record. Kravitz would tell the kansas city star “i’m not hip to the way records sound today. All this digital , But some critics didn’t call themselves a fan, with some being especially hard.

One frequent criticism was thatlet love rule was too derivative of 60’s pop, funk and soul, Kravitz wore his influences too much and that he sounded too much like elvis costello
The boston globe would write in 1989 “if you’ve heard anything at all about lenny kravitz, you’ve probably heard he’s tv star lisa bonet’s husband. But kravitz is also a singer/songwriter bandlateder with a just released virgin debut record ‘Let Love Rule’ and when it comes to an artist in his own right, well…he’s lisa bonet’s husband. Ouch..” …adding “There is however one problem. Lenny Kravitz is terrible…He couldn’t sing his way out of a paperbag…” they would add his lyrics are quite trite and that onstage he has a self important attitude.

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