Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl (2018) User Reviews

She underestimated her manager

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 9 July 2019]

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 am a Fan, but....

[hartmorgan-12991 · 7/10 · 16 June 2022]

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!

Make time for Kate

[glenrcm · 9/10 · 30 June 2019]

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.

Entertaining and revealing documentary

[kate-14953 · 9/10 · 28 July 2019]

I thoroughly disagree with the critic on here, Kate Nash is an artiste. Fact. One very tangible definition of this is you can find the music she has written and recorded in record stores. Just because you don't like her music doesn't make this any less true. Whether he likes it or not she has had a successful music career - how else could you report over one million records sold?

To the film: I admit I had to watch some of this through my fingers as she's taken for a ride by her slick talking American manager and constantly at the crossroads in her life.

Also, she's still packing out decent sized venues with a loyal following and yet not making a profit, instead losing large chunks of her own money. I felt myself saying, cut back your band or do it solo! Stop buying so many clothes and thin down your team! In other words, make cutbacks and create your own cottage industry.

Well, luckily Kate didn't listen to me, and through rolling the dice multiple times, finally lands on her feet with a swanky TV job and her music career re-ordered on her own terms in a 21st Century fashion through a good old fashioned kickstarter campaign. All very well deserved.

Just, please be more careful with the money this time around!

Air head

[Cedric_Catsuits · 1/10 · 28 June 2019]

Having previously thought her music was ok I didn't expect to be so disappointed by this. The problem appears to be that Ms Nash is an immature and naive air-head with absolutely nothing interesting to say.

The fact that she keeps referring to herself as an "artist" just makes me want to slap her face. She is most definitely not an artist, nor is it remotely original to make a career out of being a hard-done-by feminist, especially when she's clearly never experienced real hardship or prejudice.

This is middle-class, new-age hippyism and is in no way relevant to any part of the real world. Nash and her cronies are spoilt brats, extremely boring and very over-rated.

Remember Kate Nash!

[Janet1612 · 1/10 · 16 May 2020]

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

Her Music Is GREAT - BUT!

[snowgeorge-94368 · 17 January 2022]

I love Kate Nash's music. I was in a record store, and they were playing Girl Talk. I bought the two CDs they had in stock. I picked up the third as soon as I found it. They're all great. I still have one left. I'm sure it's wonderful. That's her music. I wish there were longer clips of her live, with the actual performances. That's a shame.

Her life, shown in this, is a disaster of her own making. She takes no responsibility for her own failures. The part that literally had me covering my mouth at her sheer stupidity was selling her clothes for $255. This is a person who lives on social media. She has a rabid fan base, and didn't even consider ebay or putting them up on instagram, twitter, facebook or her own website. Hey fans I'm cleaning out my closet...

The manager stealing her money is fairly common. She wasn't big enough for it to be unnoticeable. A little common sense and vigilance on her part would have put an end to it, before the real damage was done. She's not Billy Joel.

The person that nailed it was her mother. Who basically said she wished Kate had learned about responsibility. Because it's obvious she didn't. By the end of the film, it seems like she's still clueless. But, she did learn how much her music means to the fans, more than doubling her goal on kickstarter. If my life were like this, I'd be mortified to put it on display.