Last week, Stephen Colbert was shamelessly (when isn’t he shameless?) begging/pleading/demanding to be given an Apple iPad — or, as he called it, the Tampad. Last night he whipped one out at the Grammys.
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With the release of OK GO’s new Capitol album, “Of The Blue Color of the Sky,” EMI, the eminent UK music company, is telling the band their videos on YouTube — like the new one, “This Too Shall Pass” — can’t be embedded on other sites.
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In 2006, OK GO made a big splash on YouTube by dancing on treadmills for their song, “Here It Goes Again,” that I have to assume helped make money for Capitol.
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Seems to me that EMI is applying the same faulty logic that Disney used in the early days of VHS, when it refused to allow their movies to be rented, rather than sold at retail. The comparison isn’t exactly comparable, because there was money to be made in both transactions. Once again I point out that the first printed warning of the coming age of digital downloaded music was made by Stewart Brand in 1972.
Maybe EMI is thinking that banning embedding will give them time to decide what they can do to generate a revenue stream from streaming videos, like those featuring the Lily Allen, Britain’s leading bad girl of Pop music, who resides on the Beatles’ original label, Parlophone.
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Is Lily any worse than a United States Senator who posed nude for Cosmo in his buff youth, and whose wife was once in a racy music video herself? Isn’t the Brown family only slightly less shallow?
While I’m not happy about the surprise turn of events in this week’s special election here in Massachusetts, I think Keith Olbermann is off-base in his characterization of Scott Brown. The man may be a lightweight and a bit of a goofball, and I enjoyed making fun of Brown, but he doesn’t take the moral high ground or expect his constituents to share his religious beliefs, so in this case I think Olbermann’s rage is misplaced.
Jon Stewart took Olbermann apart last night, point by point, in his own Countdown-style special commentary.
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Does Scott Brown have everything he needs to be ready to take charge in D.C.?
But kidding aside, I think his long service in the Army National Guard helped a lot to get him elected.
“Just in case anybody is watching throughout the country, yes, they’re both available.”
Moments ago, Martha Coakley conceded to Scott Brown, Cosmo’s 1982 hung — er, hunk — of the year, who will be the new junior senator from Massachusetts.
