Why dont we just get him..........?
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From: Jason Stickel [mailto:j_stickel_otfp@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 12:34 PM
To: greg@stainedproductions.com; idm@hyperreal.org
Subject: Re: [idm] This month in Wired
Sell-out or not, if I hear one more interview with this self-absorbed
fuckball I am going to hurl myself off a bridge, 50 lb. weights firmly
attached to each ankle.
Love,
J~
quoted 59 lines From: Greg Clow <greg@stainedproductions.com>
>From: Greg Clow <greg@stainedproductions.com>
>To: "IDM List" <idm@hyperreal.org>
>Subject: Re: [idm] This month in Wired
>Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:04:22 -0400
>
>At 12:08 PM 22/04/02, Teknoguy wrote:
>> The Moby article was educational in that they explained exactly how
>>Moby
>>sold out. It turns out that every single song on that cd was licensed to
>>some sort of advertisement or movie etc. It seems that the album was
>>designed entirely to sell to the masses
>
>I don't think Moby specifically *intended* "Play" to be a crossover success
>and a licensing bonanza. The album actually had a very long shelf life, and
>took quite some time to build in sales and recognition.
>
>I saw an interview with him last year where he said that when he was first
>approached for licensing tracks from the album to commercials and movies,
>he was quite reluctant. But then one of the offers he rejected ended up
>getting some studio musician to record a track that was
>almost-but-not-quite the same as one of his tracks, so he figured "what the
>hell" and signed some deals, partly to avoid such rip-offs to continue, and
>partly because the album was getting little to no support from radio or MTV
>(remember, he's on a major label in North America, so sales *matter*
>whether anyone likes it or not).
>
>And most of the money that he's been making from those deals has been
>donated to some extremely worthy causes, like environmental & animal rights
>groups, so I think that the ends somewhat justify the means.
>
>I know that Moby has a pretty bad rep in the "underground" for being some
>sort of sell out or phony. To me, "selling out" means changing your style
>and recording music that you don't personally enjoy in order to sell lots
>of records, and perhaps I'm naive, and I really don't think that Moby did
>this. He's always jumped from style to style, and seems to dig a lot of
>different types of music - he just happened to get lucky with "Play".
>
>Personally, I don't care for a lot of his music, and I thought he was a bit
>of a joke when I saw him on the See The Light tour with Orbital and Aphex
>back in the early 90s. But I still think that "Play" is an enjoyable
>downtempo album even despite it's popularity, and I find his new single
>pretty groovy in a electro-glam sorta way.
>
>
>Greg
>
>
>
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