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Hello all!
I just read this article at People.Com about Britney Spears's new single racing up the charts and how stations are being flooded with requests. I have nothing against Britney but have you heard it??? It's not even singing. Just a lot of overproduced vocals that sound like 12 Britney's instead of one. The song barely has a tune. I was very disappointed to see this is what people are dying to hear on the air waves.
The part that really ticks me off . . . they interviewed Shelley Wade, a deejay on New York's Z100, talking about all the requests she has received. Less than 24 hours after its official radio debut, "Gimme More" was on the top of Z100's 'Interactive 9 at 9' countdown Thursday and at the top of Wade's 'High Noon Countdown' again Friday. (Both lists are based on listener requests.) WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!
If those lists are TRULY based on listener requests, than how is it that all our cumulative efforts to get KAT on the air at Z100 failed? Something doesn't add up here. Several Kat fans mentioned that Shelley didn't respond to any of their emails for LOVE STORY as she has in the past. Sorry to vent but this just makes me crazy! Clearly fan requests aren't being honored and yet they try to pass these lists off as legit. I just feel like the public is being misled and manipulated by this far from perfect system.
Ready to pull my hair out, Teilah
Britney Spears's 'Gimme More' Getting Rave Reviews www.people.com/people/article/0,,20054407,00.html
In a message dated 9/3/2007 3:22:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Vadia wrote:
You're right; it's not fair, but it's nothing new. It's the age old battle of money vs. art. The radio business is a BUSINESS. It's not fair and pretty much never has been, perennially rife with shady deals between record labels/promoters & radio stations. Bottom line: RCA determined that marketing tests -- however accurate or inaccurate they might be -- indicated Love Story would not do well on the radio so they chose not to back it with all-important marketing/promotion w/radio stations. Therefore, radio stations didn't play it. Romeo at Z100 said as much. I continue to throw in a request for Love Story every once in a while at my local radio stations because I do like Kat and the song. But in the end, the sad reality is that the radio business, like most American business, is not about what people want or need, it's about how they can make the most money.
I know, V! It's a sad truth and one that has left a bitter taste in my mouth. It seems hard for me to believe that the public is just clamoring for the likes of "Gimme More" and requests are through the roof. Much more likely is that Britney's label is offering major incentives for air play in an effort to overcome her bad press and image train wreck. It's an unfair system. Despite all that Kat has accomplished since Idol, I'm sure she is disappointed that all her efforts to promote the Debut CD did not produce better results. Without RCA's full support, all our requesting efforts fell on deaf ears.
Brittney has had a huge fan base for a long time and with all her troubles her fans are out in full force to try to get her a better image...IMHO
The sad thing is this "song" is crap! She does not display any musical ability just alot of moaning and repetitive "give me more", sounds like maybe she just recorded what has been going on in her bedroom these past months!
I hate it and it's not "fair" but Kat is living a life to be proud of and, in the end, that's what really counts! You can be rich, you can be famous, but happiness only comes in the way you choose to live your life and the people you love and who love you. No way we can compare Kat's CD success to B's. I'd take Kat's numbers and who she is over B's millions of cd sales and her trainwreck of a life trainwreck of a life. Numbers are numbers and in and of themselves they mean NOTHING, it's how you live your life that speaks to who a person is.
When Kat stands before God I know He won't be considering her CD sales as an accomplishment but rather how she lived her life and loved and served mankind!
I hope God really is a lot like Morgan Freeman in Bruce Almighty. Otherwise I may just decide to live forever so I don't ever have to face him.
A lot of the current pop crop seems to be an act that needs personality and attitude more than a voice. I hate to see Katharine competing with them, because to me, that's not her. She can try to sing like them, or make records that sound like them, but in the final analysis the music isn't going to match the personality and everybody will know it and I just don't think it's going to work. She may not want to be America's Sweetheart anymore, but she's not Miss Edgier-Than-Thou either. There has to be a happy medium somewhere.