Turns out Lena Dunham’s been living in her own echo chamber for so long she’s got no idea what’s going on. They don’t want anything to change for fear of being left out, because they’re dummies who refuse to enter the uncharted future. But no one at Random House, never mind Lena, seems to know that either.ĭoes anybody realize we know “ Wake Me Up” and “ Hey Brother” and don’t care about the rest of Avicii’s album? And that other than “ Get Lucky,” few have time to delve into Daft Punk’s?Īnd the wannabes are even worse. Lena Dunham could have done something really different, she could have had a day long YouTube extravaganza, it’s nothing new, One Direction did it last Thanksgiving. You can be in the “New York Times” and no one can care.Īnd you wonder why YouTube stars generate all this heat. The truth is to go mainstream you must whittle your message down narrowly or wait until your broad message is slowly picked up by the masses. Yet everybody who could be asking hard questions refuses to, for fear of being left out of the circus.
Because providing tickets and security and putting on a gig is much more complicated than those living in front of the camera realize.
I’m surprised Lena’s tour/show isn’t booked by Live Nation, the promotion giant would have done a much better job. And they keep blaming theft and all kinds of bogeymen for their reduced sales while failing to realize we’re interested in other stuff and don’t care about what they’re talking about.įurthermore, the publishing business is now taking a page out of the music business’s book. They think it’s solely a publicity tool, a way to hammer their message in a million forums. The entire media business seems unaware the internet happened. She’s the voice of a generation! Are we that hard up for heroes that a neurotic twentysomething is exalted to the heavens?īut who cares about Lena Dunham. If you think that’s great filmmaking, you’ve never seen Francis Ford Coppola never mind Billy Wilder.Īs for “Girls”… I don’t care that she’s parading her less than perfect body nude, I’ve yet to be hooked.īut I keep having her and her story jammed down my throat. I watched “Tiny Furniture,” I read the “New Yorker” article. How could it be no one in the food chain was aware of Amanda’s travails? And how come the press gives a pass to this woman although talented would have a hard time holding Roseanne Roseannadanna’s purse. But the system crashed down upon her, she was suddenly the poster girl for ungrateful ingrate.īut Amanda Palmer was marginal compared to Lena Dunham. Were any of those bitching at Amanda Palmer fans? No, her fans were eager to play for free. Everybody’s so afraid of their shadow that they pay attention to the minor minions and change course when the truth is most of these people have nothing better to do than complain and should be ignored. Kind of like those complaining to CBS over Nipplegate. The youngsters have completely tuned out and the oldsters have been burned so many times and albums require so much dedication that we all just shrug and move along. But he’s still living in 1984, he thinks MTV still rules and “Purple Rain” reigns when the truth is no one is paying attention. Where everybody’s in their narrow silo and the rest of us don’t only not care, we’re completely unaware.ĭid you see Prince put out a couple of new albums? Did something on Yahoo I think. How could the above entities be completely unaware of not only that blowback, but the whole situation? But the crushing blowback caused her to compensate them. Yes, Amanda too wanted her fans to perform for free. Dunham and her publisher, Random House, and the writer for the “New York Times” were completely unaware of the Amanda Palmer kerfuffle. “Why stars like Lena Dunham ask aspiring performers to work for free”
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