So disappointed

[emmuzka]

I updated my software and got the JC's video to work! It's so fun! He has the rhythm down better than anyone I know of. The heavy machinery, rockets launching, nuclear explosion, and then, the chimneys crashing down, the metaphors so in-your-face obnoxious that they aren't even metaphors anymore. Also, somebody found a brightness/contras-knob. --> instant art.

And then: (from dirtypop.net)

ADIDAS no longer a single

(5/15/04) An email to DirtyPop.net from producer Alex Greggs
It's official- "Sex" is a bad word!!! After trying to figure out why ADIDAS was one of the most added songs to radio and then all of a sudden dropped, JC found out while doing radio promo that the stations were told not to play it by program directors, in fear of getting a hefty fine from the FCC. MTV has also voiced that they most likely will not play the video, not because of the content of the video (Directed by Joseph Kahn/Todd Kelstein), but the content of the song.

I spoke to JC yesterday and could not understand how Eamon can have a song called "F%#k It, I Don't want you back" or Britney Spears can have a video with a girl committing suicided in a bathtub or Korn can have a song also called ADIDAS with the chorus "All Day I Dream About Sex" and be fine. He has become the target of an election year!!!

We will have to now push "Build My World" as the next single. With the money gone into the ADIDAS video, "Build My World" will have no video!!! So the conclusion is that we need to focus on getting "Build My World" played on radio as much as posable and then hopefully move on to ADIDAS when people are not afraid of hearing the word "SEX". Oh ya... does that mean that the following songs are also going to be pulled off the air???

George Michael - I Want Your Sex
Korn - ADIDAS
Marvin Gay - Sexual Healing
Hot Sex - Tribe Called Quest
Sex Machine - James Brown
The list goes on. I'm not saying these songs are offensive....... I'm just saying no one has a problem with any of these.

Alex Greggs


I'm so disappointed. The words can't describe how disappointed I am. Just yesterday, I saw the video and were, "Squee!". Now, sex is a bad word and people doesn't seem to get a joke anymore. "Some girls" didn't get air time, so this video was made relatively cheap. For the next single, they don't have any money left.

The only thing that could save the situation now would be a big media hoopla about what happened. Media interest would either force Mtv etc. show the video or the video would get a dvd audience like Madonna's "Justify my love".
If they could make the single a hit in Europe, that would help, too.

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[xoverau.livejournal.com]

That's just fucking appalling.

I want to move to Europe.