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04/24/2003 Entry: "Madonna"
This is what I'm doing, Madonna
The new Madonna album is available for streaming, complete, on MTV's site. Nice, huh? Except Madonna, control freak that she is, isn't sure she likes the idea of you listening to her music (with shitty sound, at that) for free--you know, like you might do on the radio or at a freind's house. So, except for the title song, American Life, every cut is interrupted, sometimes more than once, by little vocal interjections, mixed way up high, so you can't miss them. "Hi, this is Madonna. I hope you like my new album." "Hi, this is Madonna. You're listening to my new album, American Life." And, most notoriously, "What the (bleep) do you think you're doing?" (the bleep is on the soundbite) This last, of course, is directed toward pirates, just like the fake samples her record company has put up on Kazaa and other file sharing systems.
Since she asked the question so politely, I think it's only right that I tell her what I'm doing.
- I'm not buying your goddamned album. I don't care if it's good or not.
- I'm considering the many ways in which you have just insulted your audience.
- I'm wondering why you agreed to stream the album at all, if you're so freaked out about pirates, and whether the versions of the album that are played on the radio will have the same vocal interjections (people tape things off the radio, you know; been doing it for years).
- I'm pondering how you can think people wanting to get a hold of your latest album, even with shitty MP3 sound, as quickly as they can, and in any way possible, is in some way an insult to you.
- I'm relishing the thought of what you'll do when your own kids are old enough to download copyrighted music off the net.
- I'm going to bed. The whole subject makes me tired.
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