Free Songs From Music-Related Celebrities: The Future Of The Biz?

noah | July 10, 2008 12:30 pm
When I think about slow news days, or the ever-diminishing cultural potency of music, I moan (well, IM-moan) to my friends about starting a new feature called “Does Anybody Give A Crap About Music Anymore,” in which I examine concerning developments from my RSS reader. Today’s YouTube music-videos chart could be Exhibit A: The No. 1 clip, outpacing its closest rival by a ratio of about 4:1, is a rip of the new single by Ali “Possibly Less Screwed-Up Sister Of Lindsay” Lohan, a piece of ’80s-throwback twaddle that has the production values of the “make your own karaoke tape” booth at Adventureland. The vocals are mixed high (and not pitch-corrected at all), the keyboards are sub-Casio, but none of that matters, since Ali’s famous, and listening to this is a way to participate in the celebrity-industrial complex that, at the very least, is less grueling than sitting through her sister’s star turn in The Georgia Rule. I guess I can comfort myself with the knowledge that The Soup will make a joke about the track during its contractually obligated E! cross-promotion this Friday. Screenshot of the chart after the jump.
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Look at those numbers–and how low the bar is for people like Esmee “Discovered On YouTube” Denters, whose album will probably sell 20% of that one-day view number when it drops. Somehow, I miss the innocent, and better-produced, days of Bo Benton. October 2006, were you that long ago?

Ali Lohan – All The Way Around [YouTube]

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