Best pic and best director noms for 2011 Oscars at a bare minimum. Nolan FTW wrt Best Director.
Git Fresh still has a major label deal. Who?
Git Fresh still has a major record deal. So as you wonder why Interpol and Ok Go no longer do, stare at this picture and let your eyes burn out.
In a good case of rehashing, Idolator posted a story about how Drake and Kanye have been slapped with lawsuits about using samples from older tracks.
The interesting thing is, it’s not really a blatant malicious thing on Drakes behalf. Usually when hip hop artists make a song, the Business Affairs teams at their labels put the music through various steps (sorta like shazam) to make sure it doesnt sound too similar to other songs, or have some blatant rip off stuff (ala vanilla ice).
So really it’s prob a case of a lazy ass lawyer if anything.
The point? Idolator sucks.
Em sells over 700k in his first week, in a case of “The Leak actually helped”.
Layoffs begin at Sony Music
Feb 23
Layoffs started at Sony Music (the RCA label group) today. Strange after having a great year (no doubt due to Michael Jackson and Susan Boyle).
Rumors are that the RCA mobile department is no more.. Will continue to update as more info comes in.
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Reznor agrees: Grammys are Old Worlds self loving hand job
Trent Reznor, who seldom tweets now, sent out the following tweet just a short while ago. We could not agree more..
The Grammys = the old guard / old media propping up their puppets trying to convince the outside world (and each other) they’re relevant. via @trent_reznor
Illbert predicts #1
Jan 28
Formerly serious actors edition.
Two confirmed “quality” actors have movies dropping in coming weeks. Both of whom were firmly established as “serious” actors in the early ’00s, but who got smacked with some of that reality shit in the past year and now have vehicle movies dropping in February (aka the movie biz’s Nevuary).
The New Winning Formula – Part 1
Mar 18
Posted by DJ Kutta in Music | View Comments
Back in the 90′s, music labels had created a winning formula for sure fire music success and riches. Take some attractive youths, place some fabricated dance steps and songs, buy some hype (cough payola cough) and just hammering the teenage into buying the CD’s. Then Napster happened.
The industry has tried many things, but it seems it has settled on a few recipes for success. Here’s part one.
The most obvious recipe is the good looking youngster with saccharine sweet lyrics and beats. We’ve seen it with Miley Cyrus, the Jonas Brothers and now Justin Bieber. As Biebermania spreads (predominantly on Twitter) you see labels realize the quick buck that can be made off of essentially what was the old formula.
The only difference now is that the expectations aren’t necessarily of multi million sales from the get go. Young girls fawn after the Jonas’ (Jonasi?) and Bieber because they are young, cute, rich and on stage. Girls love them, and the parents are willing to buy the cds for their kids. And why not? Cute kids on the cd singing about love . And then countered by the shrieking voices of their kids.
But why wouldn’t the kids just download the music? And you know what? They probably do. But it’s the intrinsic value of having that Jonas brothers cd. Of having that poster (New Kids any one? ) .
However, as they grow older, and as their fan base grows older the formula changes. The girls split off into club/house/rock etc branches of music. And the labels are back at square one. That’s why you’ll see labels look for young stars constantly, and maximize their ROI now as opposed to leveraging their future on these kids. Unless they never learn, and I guess most labels never do.
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