Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl

Kate Nash is the singer who came out with that line about eating so many lemons, as she is so bitter.

Essentially a one hit wonder, this is a documentary about surviving the pop industry after you have been dropped by the record label and savaged by critics.

Kate Nash tries to kick-start her music career by playing to small venues in America and paying it all herself from her savings. She is boosted by her new manager who has big plans for her.

Yet somewhere along the line, the manager has been using Kate's credit card to fund his own wedding.

Hold on he has been appearing in the filming of a documentary about his artist. What was he thinking?

Kate takes legal action against him and his lawyers wanted her to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Hold on, this is all being recorded for a documentary. What was he thinking?

There is something manipulative about this documentary that never sat right with me. It probably is the swindling manager thing.

I think Kate Nash wanted it about a plucky British girl thing that fought against the odds to come back. Down to her last penny and she got a role in a Netflix show.

In a facile way it succeeds unless you look at it deeply and it raises more questions about it being a manipulative piece of fluff.

I remember Kate Nash! Then Lily Allen, seemed to take off over her with the same talking/singing mockney accent, and we never heard of Kate again. Why?

I first thought this was a parody, like Victoria Wood's doc on a cruise ship liner singer. With the bad language, very bad language, and words such as 'kind of', and 'like' repeated so many times it was getting to be funny. Kate uses the word 'like' in every sentence, like. When she started steaming her face and wearing weird costumes at the gigs, I thought it had to be a spoof. It's not.

I don't think she needs the record companies, she's doing well on her own. Then again she mentions several times about being dropped from the record label, so she's not quite over it. She has her heard screwed on right, she just needs the break she's after.

Didn't like the Nando's comment. There are many, many people who are having to work in the fast food industry and they don't all have parents to be buy them electric guitars, or the like.

I wish her luck, I'm not a fan but judging by her tour in this doc, she has many fans

It's so nice to see a real musician fighting the system. Granted Kate hasn't smashed it to bits, but surely it's not about making millions, it's about the fans you have and they love her... that's plain to see. I thought she was awesome in GLOW, I think her music is off the wall and unapologetic and as for her, she's kinda badass because she doesn't care what I (or anyone-else) think(s). This is 1h 28m to see how hard it actually can be out there and how easy it is to do the 9-5. Watching this I think it makes you realise we can all be a little more Kate.

If you are not interested in Kate Nash, this won't be for you, as the only thing Kate is interested in is Kate, there is no introspection whatsoever!. As time went on, the closest thing I could compare it to was Steve Coogans "I'm Alan Partridge", with the titular character trying to relaunch his career from the Linton travel tavern. Could this be a new genre in the making!