Language purists in France are
très malheureuse with Sebastien Tellier because his Eurovision entrant,
"Divine," has lyrics
en Anglais, a move that was made in part because English-language songs have pretty much dominated the competition. Can't we smooth over any ruffled feathers by reminding the offended Francophiles that Tellier may sing in English, but he's proved his French bona fides via the employment of
tasteful nudity? [
Guardian]
Warner Music Group is withholding its wares from Nokia's mobile-music store, which launched yesterday, because the Nokia music-sharing service Mosh (it stands for "mobile sharing" ... get it?) is being used to swap copyrighted material without WMG adding to its bottom line. While this move might hurt the perception of Nokia's catalog, isn't
not giving consumers the option to buy your wares even more damaging to profits when all is said and done? Or does WMG think that Nokia's store is a non-starter, and that any money it does see from selling its wares via mobile phone will be negligible at best—so this move winds up providing some cost-free "we're serious about piracy" posturing in the media? [
WSJ]
Idolator
Not content to sit back and mentally count the windfall from the first-week sales of his self-released opus Ghosts I-IV, Trent Reznor now has some words for Thom, Johnny, the bald one I always identified with, and the other two; since Trent's venture into online retail was so successful and offered higher-quality audio downloads (as well as CDs and various special editions), he feels Radiohead may have rushed the downloadable In Rainbows to market in order to look cool for all us media types, rather than because they were honestly trying to push the Web-age sales model forward.
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