Let It Out

Get a second opinion from another doctor to see if they come with the same conclusion.

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I bought Pokemon White.

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The 5 Biggest Disasters in the History of Marketing Ideas

that's a lot of money going down the drain

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I ordered an iPad.

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I just finished a song.

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I just finished listening to a song.

I shall listen to a song.

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I just ate a Hot Pocket

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The Pepperoni pocket ones are the best.

I ate a buffet.

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I messed up my foot. No DDR for me.

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I made a post about what I just ate.

it was strawberry cake in case you need to know

I stripped a figure and took photos of it.

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I downloaded SM5.

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I saw this guy selling water outside the convention center last weekend.

That guy is almost making meme-status, but is looking towards being more of a sub-culture entry on KYM.

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does anyone have the CD Albums from MUSIC FIT (Japanese Licenses + the 3 Disney Grooves crossovers)?*looks at dan*

Kind of raging here tonight...

I tend to be a defender of modern music because it gets a lot of unnecessary crap, but this shit has got to stop. As you may have heard, Katy Perry is currently looking to tie Michael Jackson's record of most #1 songs from a single album. Katy currently has 4 #1s from her latest album Teenage Dream. Her current song "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" has been very popular, peaking at #2 on the charts but has been blocked from getting #1 by the even more popular "Party Rock Anthem". In the last few days, Last Friday Night has begun to fall on the iTunes charts and it was becoming clear that Last Friday Night would not be able to hit #1. That is, unless she had some help.

See, the Billboard charts have a rule where sales of a remix will be added up to the total of the original song's sales. So, for example, if a song sold 1,000,000 copies and its remixes sold 100,000 copies, Billboard would count that song as having 1,100,000 sales. In the past couple of years, many artists have been taking advantage of this by doing "remixes" of their songs with other popular recording artists when their original song has peaked in order to inflate their song to a higher level on the chart. Ke$ha did a remix of her song Blow with B.O.B., Rihanna did a remix of S&M with Britney Spears, and Britney Spears did a remix of 'Till the World Ends with Nicki Minaj and Ke$ha. These remixes have tended to suck and barely qualify as remixes at all (Ke$ha's remix of Blow is pretty much B.O.B. doing 20 seconds of rap followed by the original song). The only exception I would say is the 'Till the World Ends remix simply because it features a rap verse by Nicki Minaj and the chorus is vocalized by Ke$ha, but even that is a stretch.

So, in a last ditch effort, Katy Perry put together a remix of Last Friday Night with Missy Elliot and released it on iTunes today. The "remix" is basically an auto-tuned rap intro by Missy Elliot followed by pretty much just the original song (they tweaked a few things here and there, but it's nothing major). And just to make sure she gets enough sales, they're discounting the track on iTunes and selling it at 69 cents a pop. Remember, all he has to do is get enough combined sales between her original song and the "remix" to beat out Party Rock Anthem, and all signs point to that probably happening.

Some are already calling into question whether or not she should actually be granted the record, seeing as the "remix" of E.T. (the one featuring Kayne West) was the song that went #1 and not the original version that is featured on her album, thus only giving her currently 3 #1s from the album. In any event, she'll probably be granted the tied record anyways. Pathetic what some people will do .

Rant over.




EDIT: Just have to add one interesting thing I found.

A few years ago, Billboard had to change their remix rules because artists were releasing completely new songs and then labeling them as remixes of other songs in an effort to inflate their singles on the charts. So Billboard put a rule that remixes that were determined to be "new songs" would be deducted from the song count.

And now what to we have? Labels changing 30 seconds of the original song and releasing it as a remix. Billboard just needs to scrap this whole remix rule altogether.

Not to be rude, but...does it really matter?
I mean, Pie, you are ranting over something like "look how many youtube views/likes I have".

It's quite silly.

Yup. Some of them pretends to be stupid enough to do that.

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