<![CDATA["LA Times" Explores The All-Encompassing Terror Of Disney's Publicity Machine - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA["LA Times" Explores The All-Encompassing Terror Of Disney's Publicity Machine - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:14:34 EDT Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:14:34 EDT http://idolator.com/374737/la-times-explores-the-all+encompassing-terror-of-disneys-publicity-machine <![CDATA["LA Times" Explores The All-Encompassing Terror Of Disney's Publicity Machine]]> http://idolator.com/374737/la-times-explores-the-all+encompassing-terror-of-disneys-publicity-machine#c4974552 Meh...

You should have cited the New York magazine blog...which managed to critique the hilarious quotes in the article and also be funny: [nymag.com]

I do think you're being backlashy-alarmist, though. Wouldn't it be interesting if good music folks tried NOT taking this precise tack in response to corporate music management, for once?

And why always take umbrage at comparisons of anyone to the Beatles when they first emerge? I believe he was describing a song you haven't heard. And I also believe the Beatles in part got their beginning singing "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" over and over and over? A la Oasis, could we at least wait for this band to play out their own version of failing to meet the comparison before whining about it?

Of course, I am biased. I actually think the Jonas Brothers are great and the phenomenon enjoyable, if unfortunately marketed. I also think the fervor has more to do with the girls on the internet than the ample supply of creepy old men at the controls than is recognized.

ObtuseIntolerant

]]> 33:374737:c4974552 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:14:34 EDT <![CDATA["LA Times" Explores The All-Encompassing Terror Of Disney's Publicity Machine]]> http://idolator.com/374737/la-times-explores-the-all+encompassing-terror-of-disneys-publicity-machine#c4971494 "Ideally, we want this thing to crest out at the moment the album drops, really just sweep through and pin people with the momentum of it. Total marketing carnage, people carried off like hilarious ants. And once that starts to die down a little bit, then BLAMMO! We hit them with a second wave--the J.O.N.A.S. TV show. Good luck trying to find your loved ones now, folks.

And for all those people we missed? Those miraculous few who found high ground? How about a few aftershocks, a summer shed tour and an inescapable merchandising campaign?

Total, 360 degree, synergistic calamity. Really, I'm stoked."

Bob Loblaw

]]> 33:374737:c4971494 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:05:58 EDT <![CDATA["LA Times" Explores The All-Encompassing Terror Of Disney's Publicity Machine]]> http://idolator.com/374737/la-times-explores-the-all+encompassing-terror-of-disneys-publicity-machine#c4971485 To be fair, that one kid looks like a ten-year-old, mildly autistic John Lennon. If you squint hard enough.

LouWeed

]]> 33:374737:c4971485 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:05:38 EDT <![CDATA["LA Times" Explores The All-Encompassing Terror Of Disney's Publicity Machine]]> http://idolator.com/374737/la-times-explores-the-all+encompassing-terror-of-disneys-publicity-machine#c4971312 In fairness to Papa Jonas, it's not like his sons have Double D's, or anything like that.

Dead Air ummm Dead Air

]]> 33:374737:c4971312 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:58:27 EDT <![CDATA["LA Times" Explores The All-Encompassing Terror Of Disney's Publicity Machine]]> http://idolator.com/374737/la-times-explores-the-all+encompassing-terror-of-disneys-publicity-machine#c4971238 "This was the best voice I've heard since Taylor Hanson," said Greenberg...

Explain that sentence, someone.

bcapirigi

]]> 33:374737:c4971238 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:56:07 EDT <![CDATA["LA Times" Explores The All-Encompassing Terror Of Disney's Publicity Machine]]> http://idolator.com/374737/la-times-explores-the-all+encompassing-terror-of-disneys-publicity-machine#c4970845 I read that article this morning and mentally threw up my hands. (And breakfast.)

Ned Raggett

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