Mcqueen_ wrote:If you're gunna offer an argument get at least some of the facts right.
OK.
In the media business it's often hard to tell fact from fiction but sometimes you need to be able to listen to conspiracy theorists / lunatics as they rant and rave believing everything they read in the tabloids is a PR scam. If only to give McQueen something to think about in between him playing with his toys and surfing the net for a thai girlfriend, allow me to disuss the Arctic Monkeys conspiracy theory with you again.
Since their rise to fame it's interesting to note the wild acclaim that's been showered upon the Arctic Monkeys by various media outlets who devote every working day rigorously analysing anything that appears to be odd. You can bet your bottom dollar that the experts would spot anything not right about the band and make it known...only they haven't. - Despite the massive PR that has followed the Arctic Monkeys swift sucess.
The first AM urban myth surrounds their relationship with MySpace that apparently is somehow responsible not only for breaking them but the force behind the upheavals taking place in the music industry. Ask music journalists and fans of the band on the chronology of its development and you'll quickly discover that they had built up a large and vibrant following amongst spotty northern teenagers some time before their music found its way on to MySpace. Their trick was to ignore the usual paranoia many new bands feel about copyright and theft of original material and to give away their songs to their fans for free.
It now clear to anyone who has a brain that after a couple of No 1 records the Arctic Monkeys are being used to make MySpace owner Rupert Murdoch lots more money by boosting the value of his brand, thus getting amazing publicity throughout the entire News International camp which many of you will know 'controls' what we are fed by all aspects of the media such as the papers, magazines and TV throughout the world every single day.
Let's not forget the Arctic Monkeys endorsed American corporate giant Procter & Gamble who were the sponsors of the NME Awards and Murdoch's MySpace while refusing to play live on Top Of The Pops so in my opinion the Arctic Monkeys are nothing more than an elaborate scam that have been cooked up by the great media brains of our time as a means of getting young people to divert their income and their attention towards online music sites and social networks.
Finally, there are many people within the music industry who are hell-bent on sabotaging the big record labrls by messing up their chance to sell music. As we all spend more time being sucked into cyberspace on our computers, I suspect that this kind of hard-to-believe but technically feasible scam may be closer to reality than
many sceptics might care to admit.
I'm only 29 by the way.
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