Maybe the music industry is getting lazy. More and more bands and focusing purely on Internet marketing. We’ve all seen it, and we can’t ignore it – most of the time it resembles a brick being thrown at your face. Some airbrushed photo (or slideshow, if you’re lucky) of the band trying “punk” or “tough” or the singer trying “glam”, along with a mp3 that loads automatically and plays far too loud.
Then there was Radiohead’s download release, which has already spurned other bands to rip off the idea and claim it as an artistical revolution that can’t be wasted. But in reality, it’s probably because they’re too lazy to find someone to design their cd covers. Or they’re too cheap so they just whack it on a server.
But this one is new to me. Missy Elliot has developed a contest where members of the public, all the way down there in the filth, can decide what the name of her new album, due out in May, is going to be!
Seems like she doesn’t like the idea of just taking a song title and using that, but oh well.
According to her website, if the title is picked you get a prize.
“All you have to do is fill out the form below and you are entered to WIN! The grand prize winner will receive their name in the credits of the album packaging that will be in stores across the world! Missy will also hook you up with an Adidas – Respect Me prize pack!”
I don’t know what a “Respect Me prize pack” is, but it’s probably worth playing anyway, just to see how many offensive things you can think up before you get a nasty email back.
(If you care, my effort was – “This Album Is Probably Not Worth Buying.”)
lasy song i heard – “Videotape” – Radiohead
