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Music Business Lessons From The Village People By mark321 Just saw Can't Stop the Music, which is the Village People's big screen debut...
What a great movie. Lots of inside jokes, a good "time capsule" of disco culture, and a great lesson on the business.
The movie wasn't entirely true, but the Village People has been a business from Day One and there is plenty to learn from these guys.
For one, they started with a market and then put the band together. The first album, a self-titled EP, was recorded by studio musicians and made specifically for the gay audience and featured songs like "San Francisco" and "Fire Island."
When that took off, the "band" was put together...
And even though the Village People went on to mainstream success, they didn't forget who had given them their original break. You don't have to go too far to see plenty of gay references throughout their songs, album covers, image, or anything else the group is involved with.
The very first album I owned was 1978's Crusin'. I played it hundreds of times.
Years later, I asked my mother if she knew they were gay...
"Of course," she said.
Good to see Mom was on top of things. I'd hate to think she would miss that with songs like "I'm a Cruiser" and "My Roomate."
People did miss it though... The Daily Association used "Milk Shake" in its ad campaign and the US Navy used "In the Navy." At least for a little while...
From Wikipedia:
The United States Navy considered using the Village People hit "In the Navy" in a recruiting advertising
campaign on television and radio. They contacted Belolo, who decided to give the rights for free on the condition that the Navy help them shoot the video. Less than a month later, The Village People arrived at the San Diego Naval base. The Navy provided them with a war ship, several airplanes, and hundreds of Navy men. When the video started showing and the Navy started the planned ad campaign, some newspapers protested using taxpayer money to fund videos (especially for a group considered by some to be "morally dubious"). The Navy quickly cancelled the campaign. The scandal tremendously boosted the popularity of the song.
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SevenAnd7is27 @ 01/07/2009 07:41 PM : Re: Any good jokes in the Bible? [quote boywithshoes][http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%202:23-24&version=31,2 Kings 2:23-24] is funny, not really a joke though...[/quote]
I think we have a winnerGenesis_Jaime @ 01/07/2009 07:40 PM : [quote HAI][quote aronf13]I had to watch trainspotting like 3 times before i could actually understand everything the characters were saying x_X[/quote]
Never try watching [i]The Harder They Come[/i] then.[/quote]Or Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen.
Christ, in Trainspotting the characters all speak pretty much clear English. It's set in Edinburgh, a place with a modicum of culture. Learn yourselves some dialects ffs.
Then watch Sweet Sixteen.G.O.Z. @ 01/07/2009 07:38 PM : [quote diction]Even if NY's Finest had the elite rappers on it, it still wouldn't be a good album. A producer album simply needs good beats, cause they can even make the mediocre rappers sound allright. [/quote]
*DING DING DING!* Here's our disagreement right here! You say that good beats can make mediocre rappers sound alright and that's true. But I think good raps could make mediocre beats sound alright too. I don't necessarily mind the questionable production on [i]2Pacalypse Now[/i] or any of the K-Rino albums I've heard because great performances from 2Pac and K-Rino made those beats work. The production for those albums would sound horrible by themselves, matched with half-assed raps from 'Pac or K-Rino, matched with a wack rapper, or matched with the inappropriate rapper.
Rapping and beats work together. If one fails, it threatens to drag down the other one with it. It doesn't always happen, but it can happen. That's what happened with [i]NY's Finest[/i] (I already know you don't agree and you're probably tired of arguing about this). That's my opinion anyway.
GOOD BEATS THAT MAKE MEDIOCRE RAPPING SOUND BETTER: Premier on [i]Livin' Proof[/i]
GOOD RAPPING THAT MAKDE MEDIOCRE BEATS SOUND BETTER: K-Rino's [i]Stories From the Black Book[/i]
GOOD BEATS RUINED BY BAD RAPPING: Cypress Hill's [i]Cypress Hill[/i]
GOOD RAPPING RUINED BY BAD BEATS: Lupe Fiasco's [i]The Cool[/i]
GOOD BEATS DESPITE BAD RAPPING: Quasimoto's [i]The Unseen[/i]
GOOD RAPPING DESPITE BAD BEATS: Immortal Technique's [i]Revolution Vol. 1[/i]
In my opinion, [i]NY's Finest[/i] is along the lines of "good beats ruined by bad rapping", even though "good" might be a bit of an overstatement for some of those beats on that album. hey_light @ 01/07/2009 07:38 PM : scientific attempt at most wanted and least wanted song least wanted: http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/04/a-scientific-at.html
most wanted: http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/05/survey-produced.html
'tis an interesting experiment, but ultimately i think they failed - you can't make music a science, rly, and i found myself enjoying the least wanted song far more than the most wanted.
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