Following yesterday’s closure of the pop-centric MP3 blog Kevipod Music, which happened because the site posted a link to a snippet of Mariah Carey’s “Touch My Body,” other sites hosted by Google’s free-blogging service Blogspot, like ALi’s Blog, have been subject to DMCA smackdowns as well, although with a little Googling you can see that sites that are independently hosted or on Wordpress.com have so far escaped Carey’s label’s wrath.
The crackdown on pop blogs has been coming down the pike for a while–particularly in the case of Kevipod Music, which, while a great resource, was operated by a guy who tagged his ZShare uploads with his blog’s name–and why it’s happening with Carey’s record, and not, say, Janet Jackson’s (ooh, burn!) is probably because the un-Googleable E=MC2 is the priority for Island Def Jam in the first half of the year. Mariah’s last effort, The Emancipation of Mimi, sold more than five million copies and helped people forget about Glitter; thanks to Carey’s wide appeal, the first week of E=MC2’s sales will be a true test of just how much the bottom has dropped out of the CD market, and whether or not its true depths have even been plumbed yet.
Oh, and in case you haven’t heard the The-Dream-penned song–which is apparently about a sex tape?–a YouTube embed of it is below; it’s a perfectly decent midtempo jam, although why R & B singers are all about sounding less like themselves and more like robotic sex dolls in 2008 is beyond me.
Blogger Madness [ALi's Blog]
Earlier: Mariah Carey Comes Down Hard On Music Blogger
Forget the song, I want outtakes from the photo shoot!
I’d like a Mariah Carey sex doll just so I could hear it purr “dahling…”
Outtakes from the photo shoot would show that the other half of her is in shadow.
I understand trying to plug leaks of a whole album, quixotic as it may be. But what the fuck is the point of trying to stop people from distributing your new single the week it’s being officially rolled out? At this point, that’s almost as stupid as telling a radio station not to play your new single. Are they really that worried about that kind of thing taking a bite out of iTunes single sales or something?
Sounds like “Always Be My Baby 2008″, nothing new to hear here, move along.
Z100 New York did a whole mini-showcase of the song on their morning show…I think it was yesterday (forgive me, I’m groggy in the morning). They played it and then went to the phones to solicit opinions.
FWIW, a lot of the ladies (and they were all ladies) motivated to call in didn’t like it, and there was a catty, that-bitch-thinks-she’s-all-that tone in their voices.
“Touch My Body”? Seriously? That’s the best her writers can come up with? Will the next single be called “I Love You”?
Beware the wrath of the Almighty MC - She Who Shall Not Be Illegally Downloaded!
BE TOLD, OH YE NAYSAYERS!
E=MC2
EManCipation 2?
It’s like the da Vinci Code, but better.