theJDman State of Mind: July 2008

Thursday, July 03, 2008

O Ashley Monroe, Where Art Thou?

First of all I'm sorry for the title, just trying to sound smart. The following post is basically a call for help(not a life or death emergency) and any information will be greatly appreciated. Now I'm going to tell you a story.

Sometime last year(date uncertain) while I was really getting into my iPod/iTunes music

collection, I would download the free single of the week. One week the free single was the song Satisfied by a singer named Ashley Monroe. The description for Ashley Monroe talked about how she wanted to be a singer and after getting rejected by most labels she went back to the drawing board and came up with new songs for a new album, then she went back to the labels again. Now that takes a very strong and driven person to get shut down only to get back up and do it again. I know several people who give their dream a try only to be told their stuff(music, stories, ect...) is no good and they just let it stand, they can't get past the fact what they made just isn't for public consumption.
Anyways the song was a single for an upcoming album and I made it a point to get the CD when it came out. Guess what, it didn't come out, I noticed that the album was on iTunes but I wanted the CD so I waited. After realizing it wasn't coming I went back to iTunes and the album was gone, looks like I screwed up. There was another song she sang with Ronnie Dunn called I don't Want to and luckily I got that one. I did notice that she was a writer/co-writer on a song on the current Carrie Underwood CD Carnival Ride and the song is called Flat on the Floor.

If anybody who reads this knows anything about her(Fansites, Official site, place where I can get her music, ect...), please let me know. When it comes to music I don't only listen to one kind and that's it, If I like a song I don't care if it's John Denver or Eminem. As it relates to the two song that I do have, I enjoy the music, the writing, and the voice... It's a total package, something that is becoming very rare is today's music scene. Now I'm going to end this post with one phrase.

Please Help. Later...

theJDman

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

A You Tube Wasteland?

Earlier in my Blog I talked about the site You Tube. For those who don't know You Tube is a video sharing website. Their slogan is "Broadcast Yourself", the original idea was for regular people to put up content that they made themselves. The user made content use to be the main attraction of the site, that is not the case anymore.

What is the attraction focus of You Tube now? I'll just make a list

- The preview of "Hancock"

-30 second car ad
-The Pussycat Dolls music video

That's just for starters. Why did this change happen, it can all be tied to one thing, "It's all about the Mon-ay." You Tube was bought by Google and they saw advertising potential and took advantage of it. That's just the way it is, good or bad; and that's just one half of the problem.

A couple weeks ago I saw this video from Digital Soul where he talks about this problem in more depth, I included the video below. After viewing this video I realized that's he's absolutely right, not only that but I realized that some of the channels I subscribed to are doing this. Once again we're left to ask why, and the answer is the same, Mon-ay. Now I'm not sure if this is in place yet but You Tube is going to set up a system to pay people who make videos and the money will be based on views of each video. This post will make more sense after viewing the video. This is my opinion of the subject, take it or leave it.

Don't get me wrong, I think paying the people who put up their content is a good idea and for some it's well deserved; these are the same people who joined You Tube without a thought of making money. The minute money is involved the whole game is changed, when you're given the chance to make money your content will change to more popular subjects(whether you know it or not). On the other hand it will give us a chance to see who's there for the mon-ay, and who's there for the community.

With all that being said, You Tube is not completely lost. There is still user content that is worth viewing, you just need to look a little harder to find it(there are several You Tube videos shown on this Blog and you can follow the links, after the video, to similar videos or others from the same person who made the video you just watched.

theJDman

F*CK! cover your BOOBS kids are watching!

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