Amazon Launches Digital Music Store
Posted May 16, 2007 — in Music News
Big Amazon News…
Amazon the Internet’s Largest Retailer Will Launch Its Digital Music Store with 12,000 Record Labels, Including EMI and in the DRM-free MP3 format. Again, no copyright protection and the music will play in any device.
To many Chefs in the Kitchen and to many directions for Kelly Clarkson….
Kelly Clarkson has been in the news of late. It seems a creative dilemma divided the label and the Clarkson camp. Kelly Clarkson is at a pivotal point, this is her chance to become the NEXT true Diva and Clive and his camp are scared as hell.
Clarkson talks:
“Everybody always wants me to go in different directions. Obviously they’re a record label so they need to sell records.They want the formula writers and the formula producers that do everybody else’s stuff, and while I love some of those people… and I don’t mind working with that…I just don’t like working with someone that gives you a song and is like, ‘Oh, I wrote this for you.’ But you find out that they’ve given it to every other artist and they turned it down, you know?”
“My label literally sent me a Lindsay Lohan track from her last album and wanted me to record it for my new album. And while I like Lindsay Lohan, like I’m cool with her and I think she sings the song well… it’s already been on an album. I don’t care what pop star it is.” Clarkson was kind of offended by the whole situation. “They were just sending me stuff that was like almost insulting. I’m like, ‘You can’t even find new songs?”
All I can do is laugh : “They were just sending me stuff that was like almost insulting. I’m like, ‘You can’t even find new songs?”………….
Comment by nathan — May 16, 2007 @ 2:42 pm
Ludicrous. “Send me music to sing, cuz I can’t write anything…I’m soooooo like, insulted.”
Comment by Scott — May 17, 2007 @ 11:59 am
Scott, I think you missed the other news on this subject. The argument started when Kelly insisted on writing her own songs and Clive said no.
She did it anyway.
I think she is saying, “If you’re not going to let me write my own songs, you need to come at me with more than a Lohan track.”
Comment by AJ-KOAR — May 17, 2007 @ 1:55 pm
AJ, I totally stand corrected!!!
Sorry about that…
Comment by Scott — May 18, 2007 @ 7:26 am
I’m actually really surprised that Clive Davis didn’t give Kelly Clarkson the creative freedom to do whatever she feels. I mean, it’s been proven that she can sell millions of records.
Comment by MP — May 18, 2007 @ 3:19 pm
I don’t know about everyone else, but I think there are certain elements in a song that can only be expressed with years and years of developing your skills BEFORE you “make it.” The fact is that Kelly Clarkson won a tv show contest; yes, I have seen the behind the music where she lived in LA and blah blah blah blah blah……..
Artists that have had a lasting effect on me have been people who were tenacious towards their musical vision, not contest winners. You want to write your own songs? Demo them and send in some hits. BUT until you do that, let Avril Lavigne and the guy from Our Lady Peace keep handing you HIT SONGS. I really liked Kelly Clarksons last record, A LOT. That still doesnt change the fact that she didnt pay her dues but is now speaking as if she is a foremost authority on what a “hit song” is. She has the voice, but other people gave her the career.
Comment by jake — May 21, 2007 @ 7:37 am