From my direct-messages inbox this morning, a look at the hazards of following musicians who are willing to go to any lengths to sell their new projects. I guess I should be flattered that he thinks I have the juice to assist in his virality, but mostly I’m just irritated that he didn’t, you know, make the message personal. What happened to the love, Curtis? [@50cent / Twitter] MORE »
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Oh Awesome, I Got Twitter-Spammed By 50 Cent
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“Google Music” Slightly Less Impressive Than Its Name Might Indicate
News of an imminently launching “Google Music” burned up the Twitter this morning, but as with many topics that are popular on the microblogging site, this one probably won’t be as awe-inspiring as its name lets on. Peter Kafka at MediaMemo reports that the search-engine titan’s musical efforts, which will be announced at an Oct. 28 press conference, won’t amount to a celestial jukebox as much as they’ll result in a streaming-enhanced search engine for digital-track stores: MORE »
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Even Google Has An Opinion On What Sugababes Lineup Is The Right One
Another case of metadata speaking the truth: “the female pop group (consisting of Keisha, Mutya and Heidi),” says the first entry on Google when you search for the troubled UK pop trio. Oh, Google. I know, I know. (Sorry Amelle.) [Google via No Rock & Roll Fun] MORE »
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Today Is A Sad Day For The RSS Feeds Of Freeloaders Everywhere
Music Is The Heart Of Our Soul, the blog that somehow found every new piece of pop music as soon as the promotional copies were pressed, has been shut down by its owner, the singularly named, grammatically creative, often-agitated blogger known as “Vicki.” And it wasn’t a visit from Big Music’s legal team that did it! If her Twitter is to be believed, she finally grew tired of people caring more about getting their free-music fix than they did about her: “since you know of all & trust me if i die today & the blog was still there, you guys dont care just want the blog to update,” she Tweeted to a concerned reader. (Who was probably more concerned about where they were going to find the new Amerie single than about her, it should be noted.) A cache of her now-deleted blog expands on her frustrations: MORE »
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Miley Cyrus Takes To One Corner Of The Internet To Explain Why She Abandoned Another
The meta-ness of it is enough to make one’s head hurt: In a YouTube clip posted over the weekend, a heavily eyelinered Miley Cyrus released a JJ Fad-style rap explaining why she shut down her account on the microblogging service Twitter, basically rhyming her way through some musings on whether one should live their life or spend all their time just documenting it and missing things that were actually happening in the process. You know, in my day, bloggers didn’t have these sorts of Deleting Everything crises until they’d at least been doing what they did for 18 months or so! Clip after the jump. MORE »
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Quitting Twitter: The New Black (Or The New Item From Etsy, Anyway)
Following in the footsteps of Miley Cyrus and her down daughter, Courtney Love has taken leave from the microblogging service Twitter, without so much as a parting “don’t forget to keep up with your FICO score” to her 45,000-plus followers. Does this mean she’s actually going to drop her mobile device and focus on her long-in-the-making album Nobody’s Daughter? Or is she abandoning the 140-character format to become a Suze Orman for the generation that grew up on The Spin Alternative Record Guide? At least her Twitpic account lives on… [courtneylover79/Twitter / CLCobain/Twitter; Pic via CLTranslated] MORE »
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Miley Cyrus, Twitter-Breaker?
Sometime this morning, unstoppable tween force Miley Cyrus deleted her account on the microblogging service Twitter, just 48 hours after her fellow ’90s-pop spawn Francis Bean Cobain did the same. (The two are unrelated, but c’mon, someone had to draw the Billy Ray/Kurt parallel.) MORE »
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Twitter: Breaking Down The Fan-Celebrity Boundaries, One Package Of Cheap Underwear At A Time
Above, a Tweet that was directed to one R. Kelly just moments ago. Which he reposted for his own enjoyment. Twice. God bless our hyperconnected world! [via @KellZodiac / Twitter] MORE »
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Meanwhile, this here blogger isn’t necessarily endorsing payola, but he would like all of you PR types and artists out there to know that other people of your ilk have gifted him with clothing and food because he has helped promote their wares, and what have you done for him lately. Especially since: “One artist called me up for a meeting and presented me with $2,000 cash just as a thank you for embracing them and looking the other way when gossip ish develops that’s clearly not true.” Money: It still talks! Blogging: It still sits in the corner waiting for someone to give it free stuff! [GyantUnplugged via Ian] MORE »
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How To Make At Least A Few Nerds Want To Pay For Music: Geek Jokes, Cute Girls
This just in: A team of highly mobilized geeks can move the needle on low-level online charts! The latest cultural curio to prove this maxim is “Do You Wanna Date My Avatar,” a little piece of synthy novelty-pop tied into the Web series The Guild. The song was apparently packed with enough nerd-friendly innuendos—sample lyric: “Grab your mouse and stroke the keys / Here in cyberspace there’s no disease”—to make it worth money in the minds of at least a few of the notoriously payment-averse types who consider themselves both geeks and music fans; it’s so far reached No. 1 on the Amazon MP3 chart and No. 2 on iTunes’ music video chart. Of course, it’s not in the much larger iTunes Top 100 as of this writing—perhaps because it doesn’t feature a Jonas Brother?—but hey, we might as well all be reminded of the importance of pandering to that vocal minority of people who really like technology, right? Clip after the jump. MORE »
