Alanis does "My Humps"

[Delthefunky]

Originally Posted by Nuje

That's how it works. Notice that people over the age of 20 rarely get busted by the RIAA (at least it's not on the news...and yes I am guilty of using the number 20, just because I'm 21. :P). It's because the people most opposed to music downloading are these jokes that manufacture music. It's always a bunch of young kids listening to this....I guess they have to save money to go to a stupid concert of one of those pop groups (which overcharge you to hear them doing karaoke on their pre-recorded 'music'....if you're lucky. Somtimes it's ALL on tape)
Props to Alanis, that made my day a bit funnier.

These pop artist try and make us feel so quilty about downloading music, but they're still making millions of millions of dollars. I think their music is just plain bad and I don't even download it let alone buy it. I feel a little more guilty about downloading from "underground" or lesser known artists who actually ARE good, but i'm usually more then happy to buy their record if I like it, after listening to it!

[Prototype]

Originally Posted by peter12

Brilliant satire. That takes me back to the days of Jagged Little Pill being played over and over on the radio. For what it's worth, the difference in quality of pop music between Alanis and Fergie is just a massive gulf.

Yeah.

It could be argued tho that since jagged little pill Alanis herself has gone too poppy, not "Too Hot" poppy, but still never regained that powerful sound and message that JLP had.

[Sparks]

Posted by Delthefunky:
These pop artist try and make us feel so quilty about downloading music, but they're still making millions of millions of dollars.

Remember though, if you're talking about artists, they only get royalties, which can be pretty low (like 5%). The record labels are running away with most of the money. Some of it goes into things like packaging and marketing. Packaging, for example, is often subtracted from total sales before they calculate royalties.

So if a band sells a CD that is lucky enough to go platinum, which is extremely unlikely, the total sales (if it's $18 each) is $18 million. If you assume that they calculate royalties off that number - probably in reality it would be less - the artist makes only $900,000. Not chump change, but good luck writing an album that goes platinum.

Thankfully, there are other ways that bands can make money, like touring.

[moon]

Originally Posted by guzzy

It's called parody. I guess it takes a sense of humour to understand one. She is letting the world know how useless Fergie and her "band" really are.

Not tosure Alanis is the one that should be pointing out how useless other people are. She is not exactly the number one talent in the world herself.

[Devils'Advocate]

Originally Posted by moon

Not tosure Alanis is the one that should be pointing out how useless other people are. She is not exactly the number talent in the world herself.

I'm assuming you meant "number one talent". And well, she doesn't have to be. Being a smart girl, she took the money that she made off "Jagged Little Pill" and invested it very wisely rather than smoking or injected it. She's got more money than she will ever need even if she lives to be 1,000. Anything made off "Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie", "So-Called Chaos" and "Under Rug Swept" is just gravy.

My personal favorite is her 2004 "So-Called Chaos" (9 songs with 4 stars or more; Jagged Little Pill only has 8). "So-Called Chaos" was more reflective, introspective and intellectual than most modern pop/dance.. which doesn't exactly lend itself to being at the top of the charts. But it certainly explains why I have 44 Morissette songs on my iPod and 1 Black Eyed Peas.

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I'm kinda reminded of the back and forth Paul and John had. John wrote "How do You Sleep at Night?" about Paul writing crappy songs with useless lyrics with Wings while he (John) was writing "Imagine", "Give Peace a Chance", "Power to the People", "Happy Xmas", "Gimmee Some Truth", etc.. Paul then rebuttled with "Silly Love Songs" - basically saying the people *WANT* songs with silly, soppy useless lyrics. And maybe there is room in this world for both. But I'm in favour of dropping the obviously moronic, sophomoric, and distasteful lyrics that dominate dance music. Which are particularly obvious in BEP songs.

[SebC]

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