Goldfrapp is sounding pretty eighties-tastic on their new single, Rocket, which would have been perfectly at home on the radio in about 1982.
Rule #1, though – don’t let Alison Goldfrapp cover in you duct tape.
Goldfrapp’s Rocket
[myspace]http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=103323532[/myspace]
Rule #2, DON'T forget Rule #2.
Rule #3, don't date Alison Goldfrapp and you won't have to worry about Rule #1 or 2.
Rule #2, DON'T forget Rule #2.
Rule #3, don't date Alison Goldfrapp and you won't have to worry about Rule #1 or 2.
Rule #4 Don't even try to watch the video clip. It's not available in your country, and only shows up as a red x.
Rule #4 Don't even try to watch the video clip. It's not available in your country, and only shows up as a red x.
Not a criticism of this particular video, or even specific to MySpace, but the whole country restriction thing is just flat out offensive.
The advent of geo-locatable IP addresses is a massive backward step for the Internet.
But seriously: *do* date Alison Goldfrapp.
Sam_K
Have to agree with you 100% on that.
When we're blogging, we've got no idea what insane limitations that the labels put on their videos, so it's like Russian Roulette trying to share major label music videos.
How do they expect us to know this is going to be an empty box for half the world?
How are people ever going to get a chance to find out about bands and their new work if bloggers don't check out their new music and talk about it?
Note to major labels – limitations like this make bloggers want to talk about indie artists over your bands!
Sam_K
Have to agree with you 100% on that.
When we're blogging, we've got no idea what insane limitations that the labels put on their videos, so it's like Russian Roulette trying to share major label music videos.
How do they expect us to know this is going to be an empty box for half the world?
How are people ever going to get a chance to find out about bands and their new work if bloggers don't check out their new music and talk about it?
Note to major labels – limitations like this make bloggers want to talk about indie artists over your bands!
Yeah it must be pretty rough on Bloggers, posting something exciting only to have half the comments be cranky about an innaccesible video.
It DOES make me cranky, though I try as hard as I can to be cranky at the video host and not the blogger.
From the readers perspective, it makes you feel firmly like a 2nd class citizen of the world. It's like "sorry, if you're not an American then we don't give a shit about you".
Just to be clear, I'm not saying that there's anyone out there who actually thinks that, it's just that that's how it feels from this end which is why you see a lot of snakey comments about it.
i know it's all about pre-existing regional licencing deals, and so long as there is some kind of mechanism for the industry to continue to do that then they are obligated by those deals to do so. That's really the shame about all of this, for a time there it seemed that the Internet presented a golden opportunity for true globalisation of all media content, but geo-locatable IP services are rapidly killing that possibility.
Yeah it must be pretty rough on Bloggers, posting something exciting only to have half the comments be cranky about an innaccesible video.
It DOES make me cranky, though I try as hard as I can to be cranky at the video host and not the blogger.
From the readers perspective, it makes you feel firmly like a 2nd class citizen of the world. It's like "sorry, if you're not an American then we don't give a shit about you".
Yeah it must be pretty rough on Bloggers, posting something exciting only to have half the comments be cranky about an innaccesible video.
It DOES make me cranky, though I try as hard as I can to be cranky at the video host and not the blogger.
From the readers perspective, it makes you feel firmly like a 2nd class citizen of the world. It's like "sorry, if you're not an American then we don't give a shit about you".
Sam_K
I give a shit about you – but I'm not so sure about the record labels!
Sam_K
I give a shit about you – but I'm not so sure about the record labels!
Just to be clear, I'm not saying that there's anyone out there who actually thinks that, it's just that that's how it feels from this end which is why you see a lot of snakey comments about it.
i know it's all about pre-existing regional licencing deals, and so long as there is some kind of mechanism for the industry to continue to do that then they are obligated by those deals to do so. That's really the shame about all of this, for a time there it seemed that the Internet presented a golden opportunity for true globalisation of all media content, but geo-locatable IP services are rapidly killing that possibility.
Just to be clear, I'm not saying that there's anyone out there who actually thinks that, it's just that that's how it feels from this end which is why you see a lot of snakey comments about it.
i know it's all about pre-existing regional licencing deals, and so long as there is some kind of mechanism for the industry to continue to do that then they are obligated by those deals to do so. That's really the shame about all of this, for a time there it seemed that the Internet presented a golden opportunity for true globalisation of all media content, but geo-locatable IP services are rapidly killing that possibility.