"HALF LONDON WILL BE CALLING YOU POLLY" And so it came about.

Lavinia was sent for by Mr.Palmer, and she sang to him.

He was highly pleased with her voice, but he was afraid her songs would not be to the fancy of his fashionable patrons.
"One half are mad to have nothing but Mr.Handel's music and t'other half cry out for Signor Buononcini's.

Your songs are like neither.
There's no taste for English ballads.

They're out of fashion.