Which Artist’s Representatives Forced MTV To Spike A Column?

noah | July 25, 2007 12:04 pm
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This week’s edition of the MTV.com column “Bigger Than The Sound” is a curious mea culpa for last week’s installment, which was a (kind of funny! and we’re not just saying that because it linked to us!) look at the idea of “anti-buzz” and how any press is conceivably good press. That piece isn’t on MTV’s site anymore, in large part because writer James Montgomery tried to start some anti-buzz by offering wild predictions about why a few artists’ next albums would be disappointing. (As Montgomery puts it, “a representative for one of the artists I singled out was unhappy — and made her feelings known to my higher-ups.”)

The piece has been erased from the collective RAM of MTV’s servers, but Google cache never forgets; as it turns out, the six artists Montgomery mentioned in the piece were Panic! At The Disco, 50 Cent, Thrice, Blake Lewis, Weezer, and Cobra Starship. So which artist’s “people” complained about the satirical suckage-prediction? Time for another poll:

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The Case Of The Missing Bigger Than The Sound [MTV] Anti-Buzz: From Kelly Clarkson To Indie-Rock Rappers, In Bigger Than The Sound [Google cache]