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Personalized Pop
This weekend’s Wall Street Journal carried an online music piece by John Jurgensen about personalized music. We’ve had mashuips and remixes, bootlegs and rarities. Now the economies of scale brought to us by the digital world are giving us personalized music.
Like those kids license plate keychains you see hanging up in a Stuckey’s off the highway exit, these versions of the song are cut with individual names.
“Hey, Billy.”
Next
“Hey, Chris”
Next
“Hey, Dawn.”
and so […]
Madonna Does Moscow
Not content to rile the Romans, Madonna is maddening the Muscovites. After the Vatican protested her Rome concert last month, Madonna continued making waves among church leaders.
Reuters is reporting that the Material Girl is due to play a sold out stadium show in Moscow in just one week, but the Russian Orthodox Church, the largest of the Orthodox churches, doesn’t like the idea of the once-Catholic Madonna using religious imagery such as a crucifixition […]
Should He Stay Or Should He Go? Springsteen Denies Split
Damn the New York Post, says The Boss. Usually that’s a Steinbrenner quote as he mutters about the crosstown Mets getting more praise now, but this is New Jersey’s boss, Bruce Springsteen.
With a somewhat reluctant tone, the legendary rocker’s website featured a front page today refuting a Post story that said Springsteen and guitarist wife Patti were splitting. Over a graphic of his signature, Springsteen apologizes for turning a music site into something […]