Martin Kavka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This makes it sound as if she was selling more than one different CD.
Was
> she? Or are you just referring to multiple copies of the album?
Sorry, no it was just multiple copies of her CD.
> Arista is indeed dropping the ball; as far as I can tell, the CD hasn't
> even broken the Top 200 album charts here in the US, and I haven't
> even seen it on the "Heatseekers" chart which focusses on new artists.
Yes, I have been complaining about this everywhere and no one seems to
care.
I've e-mailed radio stations here in Detroit where "Here With Me" would fir
perfectly,
I've asked a person I knopw who works for Arista, I've posted things here
and on the Cheeky Records site about Arista dropping the ball on this and
no one can come up with a good reason why. The CD has garnered almost
universal good reviews, even Billboard did a nice write up on it. This
should at LEAST be on the Heatseekers charts.
> Why was there not a video made for "Thank You" or "Here With Me"? I
could
> make a brilliant video for "Don't Think Of Me" with one hand tied behind
> my back. It would open with Dido catching her boyfriend in bed with
> another woman, storming out, and as we see the boyfriend make love to his
> new woman, his guilt torments him buy forcing him to imagine that he's
> actually making love to Dido, as she belts out this great fuck-off
anthem.
> And don't tell me that fuck-off anthems don't sell. "It's not Right But
> It's OK" went Top 10, and "Don't Think of Me" is a far better song.
Actually I believe there IS a promo video for "Here With Me". I saw someone
auctioning off an Arista promo video for this song on Ebay and I just lost
out on the bid. But I agree, fuck-off anthems sell, look at that HORRID
"You Oughta Know" by Alanis a few years ago and how big that was as another
example. The choruses of
"Hunter" and "Here With Me" are so damn catchy if this just got played I
KNOW it would be a hit. Even the people working at the club last night were
saying "geez this is good."
> And why hasn't the album been released in Europe? Cheeky can release
> whatever it wants whenever it wants to.
Yeah, I don't understand that either. But it seems all promotion is geared
on the US side right now. Hopefully she'll continue to tour here and build
up momentum for the CD. Last nights show was very encouraging to me, it
went over VERY well and I doubt everyone there had bought her CD before the
show. I know they didn't because they were buying it at the souvenir stand
after the concert. Just another example of if people actually get to HEAR
something, it might sell.
> Did she really not change the pronoun? That would be so cool! (When
> Shawn Colvin did this song on her "Cover Girl" album, it became "Every
> Little Thing He Does...")
Actually yes she DID change the pronoun, I just used the actual title of
the song. She changed it to make it towards a male throughout :)
MikeA
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