“British singer Lily Allen has accused Apple of bullying musicians into providing exclusive content for iTunes,” Karen Haslam reports for Macworld UK.
Haslam reports, “Her comments were made in a radio interview. She stated: ‘They won’t advertise your album unless you give them extra material,’ according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.”
Haslam reports, “Allen claimed Apple pushed her to quickly produce a new version of a song for sale on iTunes, so she planned to give them a ‘rubbish remix.'”
Full article here.
We love Allen’s total inability to even minutely filter herself in interviews alright, still we’ll make sure to steer clear of her “rubbish remix.”
Aren’t for the most part all remixes rubbish anyway? Give Apple something extra and you’ll make some extra cash. I don’t see that as a bad thing. She’s cute, though, at least from her promo pictures
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Lily Allen. Who is she? MDN Magic word: little
Never heard of her. A bonus track is too much to ask for I suppose.
A “rubbish remix” only makes her look bad, and they
could still pull the advertising. I don’t know anything
about her recordings, but iis it possible that the album in question
only had like 7 or 8 tracks on it to begin with?
Yeah, I’m sure an Apple rep showed up at her studio and stole her lunch money, too.
LAME.
She was in Saturday Night Live recently. She has a really nice voice. The song “Smile” is catching on and the video is pretty funny. She is cute but a little chunky
She needs to know that there ain’t such a thing as free advertising.
All of her mixes are rubbish. How can it get worse?
Just checked her out on iTunes and there are 13 tracks on the album (one’s a remix
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Hadn’t heard her until today but I’ve seen her poster at the bus stop for a month or so. “Smile” seems like a decent track as far as lightweight fluff goes.
Lilly Allen is a ‘one hit wonder’ that has recently had a moderately successful single in the UK.
She is the sort of singer who this time next year everyone will have forgotten her. One of the many who just vanish because of lack of talent and personality.
She has no talent, and is just trying to make publicity/press on the back of Apple to probably create interest in her next single or book.
So much for music marketing!
I’ll kick shit out of the bitch if she doesn’t shut it.
Some artists are the worst business-people. She has no idea that she’s only doing her career harm. She should count herself lucky that she even has the opportunity to get her stuff on iTunes.
This is common practice in the current music industry. It’s not like 20 years ago where a remix means going back into the studio and spending a ton of cash. You can take the original tracks, lay down new instrumentation, completely change out a number of instruments. My friends and I have used existing audio tracks to generate midi, chosen a new instrument from a sound module, and recorded the new instrument with all of the original musicianship and velocity inputs intact.
It’s not hard, easy to redo, and since she’s getting released by Apple to the world it’s a small price to pay. Seems to me like she’s biting the hand that feeds.
(checking spelling for barista… good! ok, ready to click on the send button. Just have to correctly copy the mdn secret word….. d-i-c-k-h-e-a-d)
What a hypocrite! Her dad is the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood so she clearly thinks that it’s okay for her father to extort money and extra taxes from other people using a variety of nefarious means, but she soon starts squealing when Apple asks her for a little bit more.
What would she prefer, that they ask for money instead?
Bullying musicians into providing exclusive content is like bullying musicians into making good music.
Yeah ’cause musicians are just not use to being bullied by the music industry…
Lily Allen? Who de hell is Lily Allen?
I’d definitely be taking my business advice from a simpering, drug-dealing, loudmouth, spoiled harpie British BITCH. Kind of reminds me of de Queen. Yeh-heh-hehessssss . . .
Keep flapping those infected British gums in that brown chiclet-lined piehole of yours, Lily. I’m sure you have plenty of experience opening that enormous bacteria trough that passes for a mouth nice and wide, and when you do, it’ll make it easier . . .
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Angelus520: You thought she was cute? I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
I wouldn’t doubt the accuracy of her statements at all.
LDN is a GREAT Freakin’ song though. Love that track.
British singer Lily Allen has accused Apple of bullying musicians into providing exclusive content for iTunes
Apple, the big bad record label.
I nearly spit coffee all over my desk.
Lily Allen, what a waste of bandwidth.
Go ahead, create your rubbish remixes, I’ll certainly not buy them, or any of your other crap.
She’s one of these here-today, gone-tomorrow artists.
Whether she’s a one hit wonder or makes crappy music – I wouldn’t know – is not the point.
You guys are a bunch of apologists for Apple’s, er, what shall we call it? Microsoft-like behaviour.
It’s posing as a rebel to appeal to dissaffected youth. Remember them? “My teachers suck” and “stick it to the man.” Now Apple is the new adult that doesn’t understand. So, from that standpoint, it’s a bit of clever marketing…like when the Stones peed on the wall of a petrol station.
“a rubbish remix”
Hey chick – it’s you people will be listening to if you are lucky – NOT Apple. If you want to make yourself sound bad to spite Apple – you are a bad business person.
I say go for it.
Um, yeah right. Apple doesn’t talk to artist. I’m sure it was her LABEL who said she should create an exclusive remix so Apple would promote her album.
Hmm… does she actually think that Apple owes her free advertising? WTF is she thinking? Real smart girl to badmouth iTunes – you know, the people who can actually promote and sell her garbage music. What an idiot. She needs a new manager/agent.
Magic Word: “Trade” as in, it would make sense to trade an exclusive song for some promotion.
How is “We will trade you free advertising for exclusive content” equal to bullying?
I don’t get it.
tramp