Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper. The video part is a bit "eighties", but great song, and what a voice.
Isn't it funny how any web site with free, unauthorized MP3s of music would be shut down so fast the server would not yet be warm, but you can get the same songs on YouTube including video?
I looked up Cindy because she was cast in the The Wall concert as the young Pink, running around rather alarmingly alluring in a schoolboy uniform. Talk about casting against type! Good job though. And big hair!
See now, Eolake! You have me thinking about, no day dreaming about Cyndi Lauper. Shame on you. ;o)
ReplyDelete"Isn't it funny how any web site with free, unauthorized MP3s of music would be shut down so fast the server would not yet be warm, but you can get the same songs on YouTube including video?"
ReplyDeleteI'd been wondering about that myself. Perhaps it is because theoretically, you can't download and save a U-Toob video. Theoretically.
A music video is supposed to be a promotional tool -- i.e. an advertisement for the actual product (the sound recording). In the past, record companies fought to get their artists' videos played in MTV etc. Videos for individual songs were never sold.
ReplyDeleteOf course, in this current situation the record companies are truly confused, to put it lightly. Supposedly it's still a good thing if a video, for which they have the rights to the actual album, gets seen. But other than that the whole business model is broken. And they know it.
I predict that the music business is about to transform into a gift economy where the fans will reward the artist directly over the net. A lot less money will change hands but the artist will get 100% of it (as opposed to the 10% she used to get).
I think if they got/get ten percent they have an excellent contract!
ReplyDeleteYou are right. And regardless of the nominal royalty percentage, the artists share is usually subject to "Hollywood accounting" or, if you prefer, "close shaving", leaving not much at all as proceeds.
ReplyDeleteNone of this nonsense, of course, if you self-publish. Which is what I recommend.
This is the way it's always been with video. You can blatantly steal from other movies, but if you did the same thing with a novel you'd be sued for plagiarism so fast...
ReplyDeleteI once had a crush on Cyndi Lauper.
ReplyDelete(Age hasn't been kind to her though) But it hasn't with me either.........I like her other hit better, Time after Time.
I saw Cindy perform live at Hammersmith Odeon, London in 1987. It was very good!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite songs from her are Change of Heart (concert opening number) and She Bob.
I have always thought Cyndi has the greatest vocal phrasing of all female rock singers. She uses tension and glissando in a masterful way to ornament her vocal lines. Fully compareable to Janis Joplin in this regard.