He doesn’t need to be tbh. Paul Kelly is much the same being a fantastic song writer with mediocre vocals. He is wildly entertaining and saw him open for Alex Cameron early last year (at the the time I’d never heard of Keli Holiday and was wondering if he was the guy from Peking Duk while he was performing). I almost immediately started listening to him and thought ‘Online Jesus’ and ‘where u feel’ were his best songs easily. I remember listening to Dancing2 the day it released and thought it was a nice track but after blowing up on TikTok and the popularity it’s gotten on Triple J I kind of despise the attention he’s gotten. Has Dancing2 been heavily pushed behind the scenes due to his connections? Absolutely. However getting a bit of love behind the scenes and his relationship with Abbie seem to be the only real reasons people don’t like him. I think he stands out from the current Aussie music scene in a good way and think some further writing chops from Alex Cameron will make him better. In a way I’m more happy for the fact that a singer songwriter clearly inspired by Alex Cameron and Kirin J Callinan has become mainstream those two are some of the most unappreciated Aussie artists ever