Idolator
After causing quite a stir earlier in the week when she announced that songs on her MySpace page would be truncated to 90 seconds because of a corporate edict by Universal Music Group, Colbie Caillat has taken to the social-networking site's bulletin section once again, because she just wants everyone to know that MySpace is like the most totally awesome thing to happen to her career since she became the daughter of a pretty famous rock producer:
Subject: hey everyone it's Colbs......
Body: Hey everybody! I know you are all bummed out about the shortened song clips on my page. I am too, and I'm not sure what to do in this situation.
Let me first say, I love my label! They have helped my music reach so many new listeners, and they treat me wonderfully!
But it's because of you, my myspace fans, listening to my songs from day one, that I even got a chance to start this amazing career.
So many of you have gone out and bought my album, even though full length versions of my songs have been on my page, for 2 years!
I wish I could take it back to how it used to be!
I'm doing what I can, so hang in there. I completely understand the frustration!
I will keep you updated on what's going on ok!
Thanks you guys! ~Cc
Hmm, is her noting that people were buying her album in spite of her songs being available on MySpace a veiled dis at Universal's new anti-marketing strategy? That's how I read it, especially with the way that she took the time to first say "Dear UMG, you are awesome and xoxo and all that but...." This girl may have a future as an executive yet!
Colbie Caillat [MySpace]
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I didn't realize her name could get any more annoying than it already is, and then she went and abbreviated it as both "Colbs" and "Cc."
Did you actually have to become her MySpace friend to get access to these bulletins? The things a journalist has to do to get a story...
OMGZ! "Bubbly" permeating the internets like background white noise for the last two years MUST BE the source of the madness that sent me on that street-corner-crazy-man-ranting spree the police haven't solved yet [oops!]!!!!!111!!!11!
Thank you, Idolator! And thank YOU, "Colbs"!!!1111!!1!
@GovernmentNames: I suspect our Idolators are too embarrassed to own up to the identities of some of their "friends". We just have to suss it out and pretend like we're not smart enough to figure it out. So they can keep their dignity, and as such.
people didn't get to her myspace page first and then hear "bubbly" second. hearing "bubbly" preceded the visit to the myspace page, by which point they had already sampled the song (via tv, radio, whatever). when you look at it that way, it's no shock that somebody would buy her music in spite of being brutally forced to make do with 90-second clips. those clips are not the only sampling going on. (again, the song is all over radio and tv. it's hard not to sample that song at some point.) besides, a good portion of visitors already own the music. do her fans, who probably already own the album and can listen to the songs at will, really need an apology?
Also, is it just me, or does "Cc" [it's cool if I call ya that, i'int "Colbs"???] sorta look like a mashup of Jennifer Aniston and Michelle Branch? I've always thought that...
P.S. I ask "non-ironically", ICYWW...
@DHMBIB: Also, mix in some Jessica Biel, and I think I've found the "recipe"...
@coolfer: Well, considering that the whole angle on her is that she got signed after her songs became really popular on MySpace, this actually is one of the rare cases where a number of people actual did get the song there before it was on the radio/TV/whatever. But yeah, pulling the song from the page well after it's a mainstream hit is kind of a moot point.
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