Have you been following this youtube thing?\u00c2\u00a0 With NBC requesting the site pull all its videos?\u00c2\u00a0 How fucking stupid can you BE!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nVideo Clip Goes Viral<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
"Lazy Sunday".\u00c2\u00a0 That’s what seems to be breaking SNL wide open after years of dormancy.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s just like a band.\u00c2\u00a0 You’re living in obscurity, and then the Net catches hold of you and you BLOW UP!\u00c2\u00a0 Can you say ARCTIC MONKEYS?\u00c2\u00a0 If you’ve got something good, you can’t keep it down on the Net.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s human nature, people want to tell EVERYBODY!<\/p>\n
So busy enforcing their copyrights, major entertainment companies are shooting themselves in the foot.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the kind of hype, the kind of marketing, that can’t be bought.<\/p>\n
Take KT Tunstall.\u00c2\u00a0 Fucking idiots at Virgin want you to PAY for her video on iTunes!\u00c2\u00a0 What schmendrick wants to pay for a video he probably hasn’t seen to BEGIN WITH!\u00c2\u00a0 But, saunter over to youtube, and you can see KT doing her act, performing "I Want You Back" on a French TV show.\u00c2\u00a0 THIS is the kind of publicity you desire.\u00c2\u00a0 If you’re BUILDING an act.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nI want you back – Live<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
and search on Tunstall in youtube to find OTHER clips.<\/p>\n
And now there’s this Aerosmith thing.<\/p>\n
Funny how it never occurred to me.\u00c2\u00a0 But it’s perfect.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead of JANIE having a gun, CHENEY’S got a gun!<\/p>\n
Hate to tell you, but "Janie’s Got A Gun" is verging on twenty years old.\u00c2\u00a0 There are kids who’ve NEVER heard it.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, Aerosmith is a perennial, but even MTV no longer plays their videos.\u00c2\u00a0 Their albums don’t sell, they’ve become a NOSTALGIA ACT!\u00c2\u00a0 And now, some enterprising Web denizen has BROUGHT THEM BACK FROM THE DEAD!\u00c2\u00a0 Giving "Janie’s Got A Gun" MORE airplay than it’s gotten in YEARS!\u00c2\u00a0 And, hear the parody and you want to hear the original.\u00c2\u00a0 And, ultimately you believe in the act.\u00c2\u00a0 Hell, I got e-mail from a friend’s niece, barely in double digits, asking what the underlying song to THIS parody was.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/p>\n
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