{"id":217854,"date":"2010-01-21T02:23:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T07:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=6477"},"modified":"2010-01-21T02:23:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T07:23:54","slug":"ok-go-on-today%e2%80%99s-music-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217854","title":{"rendered":"OK Go on today\u2019s music industry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Short version: YouTube, change your tracking metrics so our label (EMI) will let our fans embed our videos again. Long version (after reading through the lines): the industry is completely broken<\/a>, but we’re in too deep to walk away.<\/p>\n

From the link:<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve been flooded with complaints recently because our YouTube videos can’t be embedded on websites, and in certain countries can’t be seen at all. And we want you to know: we hear you, and we\u2019re sorry. We wish there was something we could do. Believe us, we want you to pass our videos around more than you do, but, crazy as it may seem, it\u2019s now far harder for bands to make videos accessible online than it was four years ago.<\/p>\n

See, here\u2019s the deal. The recordings and the videos we make are owned by a record label, EMI. The label fronts the money for us to make recordings \u2013 for this album they paid for us to spend a few months with one of the world\u2019s best producers in a converted barn in Amish country wringing our souls and playing tympani and twiddling knobs \u2013 and they put up most of the cash that it takes to distribute and promote our albums, including the costs of pressing CDs, advertising, and making videos. We make our videos ourselves, and we keep them dirt cheap, but still, it all adds up, and it adds up to a great deal more than we have in our bank account, which is why we have a record label in the first place.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(Hat tip: boing boing)<\/p>\n

OK Go – This Too Shall Pass<\/a> from OK Go<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Short version: YouTube, change your tracking metrics so our label (EMI) will let our fans embed our videos again. Long version (after reading through the lines): the industry is completely broken, but we’re in too deep to walk away. From the link: We\u2019ve been flooded with complaints recently because our YouTube videos can’t be embedded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}