Johnny Weir’s single is at #22 in the iTunes Japan Dance chart, and not charting at all on main chart.

Keith Cahoon
Hotwire Japan

What, they think we don’t have the Internet?

Then again, the right wingers spout inaccuracies and even though they’re debunked online they end up permeating the public consciousness.

But music ain’t politics.

You’ve got two roads.  You can lie, cheat and steal your way to the top, or you can be honest and trustworthy.  Generally speaking, those who employ duplicity reign for a short time and those who are honest last.  But making it if you’re honest frequently takes so much longer.

Let’s just put it this way…  I’m thrilled the Net allows us to out your dirty laundry, allows us to print the news the mainstream in bed with the usual suspects won’t.  Lie at your peril.  Because there are legions of people just like me who are out to cry foul.  We’re playing by the rules, and if it means we’re not ultimately rich and wealthy, we don’t care.  We want to sleep at night.  And we’re sick of a society based on falsehoods, where it’s about spin instead of fact.

The days of hype are diminishing.  It might get you noticed, but that doesn’t mean you’re going to sustain.

So, if you’re lying about your age, your success…you’d better scrub your identity from the Web or you’re gonna be outed.  And then, to paraphrase Bob Dylan, how’s it gonna feel?  To be without a home, completely known, a rolling stone?

That’s going downhill.

Bob-

I produced and co-wrote Johnny’s single.  I’ve been following everything that’s going on today.

If there’s anything I know about Johnny Weir, it’s that he’s not a liar.

Someone sent him a link to amazon.jp, where actually the song actually was #1.

If you go to the amazon.jp mp3 page.  You will find it currently to be #2.

http://www.amazon.co.jp/MP3-ダウンロード-音楽配信-DRMフリー/b/ref=sa_menu_dmusic1?ie=UTF8&node=2128134051

Sincerely,

Lucian Piane