Loading ...The music-video site PluggedIn launched today with about 10,000 videos from Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, and EMI. Branded with the tagline “Filter the noise. Hear the music,” PluggedIn is being seen by the major labels as an opportunity to once again dictate how their content should be experienced and used by the masses, bringing things back to the way they were before those pesky indie labels and YouTube remixers ruined their expense accounts and fat-cat lifestyles. Its picture quality is really quite nice, but it doesn’t allow embedding of its videos, and as mentioned, it only has about 10,000 clips in its label-generated database right now–although it’s licensed the All Music Guide’s content in an effort to make its content well look a lot deeper than it actually is. And not only that, it kicks those pesky people who have opinions about music that may be different than yours–and the ability to spell–to the curb, too!
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“A JoBromance” Threatens Sanity, YouTube Servers With New Form Of Fan Fiction
As it turns out, all those months I spent covering tribute videos and fan fiction separately were a total waste of time. Modern fandom has now evolved to the point where these two mediums can exist as one; it was only a matter of time before that “About This Video” text box on YouTube was put to more creative ends, and there was never any question as to whom this new form might be dedicated.
Idolator’s Tribute-Video Treasury Finds The Video To End All Videos
I’ve seen a lot of odd combinations on the tribute-video beat, but recently I found what I believe to be officially the Weirdest Thing on YouTube. It’s a confluence of cultural elements so incongruent, so entirely bizarre that I am not exaggerating when I say it causes me physical pain. Never has a musical soundtrack been put to such shocking ends, not even when the Phantom of the Opera paid tribute to Keiko the Orca whale. Brace yourselves: This one involves Dom DeLuise. And anime.
Kelly Clarkson Fans Fight Clive Davis With Rudimentary Understanding Of Editing Software
In light of what they see as Clive Davis’s neglect toward the promotion of Kelly Clarkson’s My December, the Kelly Clarkson Express–a group that sounds like it should serve as a dual-purpose fan club for the first American Idol and trains–has put together a video for the song “How I Feel,” which its members think should be the next single. This is but one facet of the How I Feel Project, a campaign to get the song played on the radio, or maybe very quietly in the background of an MTV show. While strong fan support is essential when you’re a pop star being ignored by one of the world’s most powerful music bigwigs, that devotion can come with a price–and in this case, that price is a well-intentioned but sadly incompetent tribute video.
Those of you wondering about Pete Wentz’s assertion that Fall Out Boy’s Infinity On High directly inspired Cloverfield–and worried about the eleven billion nausea-inducing tribute videos and fanfics such a paring would inspire–can put your suspicions to rest: Screenwriter Drew Goddard merely said… More »
Idolator’s Tribute To The Greatest Intern A Music Blog Has Ever Known
It is with the heaviest of hearts that we ring in the new year by reporting that Kate Richardson, Idolator’s fearless (and generally put-upon) intern and world-renowned compiler of YouTube tributery, will be leaving us next week to go to Spain. Why she would ever want to leave the joys of blogging, with its skeezy virtual MTV flophouses and its sex-crazed Jonas Brothers fans clawing at your pantlegs and its eating cold pizza at 10:30 a.m. while unbathed and watching E.R. reruns*, is really beyond us. But in lieu of chasing after the steamer ship as it leaves port, we present just a few of Kate’s greatest hits in tribute to the woman who made our lives much easier in exchange for corrupting her brain with music industry-related shenanigans.
Pretty Ricky Wants You (In A Collaborative Way)
Pretty Ricky–the hormone-charged R & B outfit who some of you may remember as “those dudes who kept the Shins from hitting No. 1 earlier this year”–is looking for a new member after Pleasure (née Marcus Ramone Cooper) announced his plans for a solo career on the BET Awards’ red carpet a few months back. Like other bands looking for new blood, the remaining Rickys have hit the Web to find their new member, and they’re also hoping to wrangle a reality series out of some writers’-strike-starved network. But it may actually make compelling TV, since the Miami-based now-threesome isn’t looking for someone who can sing as much as it’s looking for someone who can uphold the Pretty Ricky-approved standards of classy interactions with ladies:
Idolator’s Tribute-Video Treasury Hits The Moors With Heathcliff And The Gang
Idolator’s Tribute-Video Treasury Gets Dark With Dexter
Once again, Idolator intern Kate Richardson scours the video sites, looking for the best fan-made music videos. In this installment, she looks at videos that pair Dexter’s titular serial killer with bright, sparkling pop.
