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Yesterday: splooge boxers, craigslistfuck, americans hookers.com, dance pop hits of the 90′s,
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The Britney Spears album leaked last week, so now it’s available exclusively (in the legal sense) in imeem, a week before it was supposed to come out. I’m glad, because I thought everyone had forgotten about imeem and I think their interface and screen ratios are nice for watching videos. Like, say, Torchwood fan videos.
Also on imeem right now, new MIA. Seriously. I have no idea how I didn’t know she was doing soundtrack work, and now I’ll have to spend my whole day wondering what it sounds like because I’m at a computer with no speakers. God, my life is annoying right now.
When Annie’s Don’t Stop album was pushed back from October to some nebulous part of 2009, I knew things weren’t going well. I’d heard leaks of half the songs already, which was a bad thing since Annie’s fans tend to be internet-savvy pirate types that only listen to things three months before they actually come out. I Know Ur Girlfriend Hates Me was wonderful, of course, but nobody seemed that into the rest of the album, particularly What Do You Want (The Breakfast Song), which I actually liked.
But news came via the Myspace the Annie just severed ties with Island, mentioning that the label changed quite a bit shortly after she signed to it. My question is: really, what is the point of delaying albums like this? She’s not going to be big on radio, and if she ever is it’ll only be for one odd song (like with September, who had a big pop hit for some reason this year.) Her audience is already big and ravenous thanks, pretty much exclusively, to blogs and websites like Pitchfork that twisted their panties praising her, calling Heartbeat song of the year before the first album was even released. But these are not patient people.
I’m not saying that this album was going to be a huge sensation like her first one was, but if it had been actually released in October then I bet some people (like, you know, me) would have actually bought it. Whereas now I’ve had months to get distracted by other things. I’m not saying that to be snippy, but really. Annie is a pop singer. She is not Kate Bush, or Bruce Springsteen, or Metallica or Guns N Roses. People are not going to pore over every note on the album wondering where she found her inspiration. (Which, I guess, makes her somewhat unique, because people actually do read into the lyrics on Britney Spears and Pink albums too, for some reason.) So unnecessarily delaying the album is just going to give fans more time to find somebody else–another Robyn, or hell, maybe even a September–to get excited about. And I don’t see why Annie, or anyone on her label, would want to do that.
