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Posts: 137 | December 13th, 2005 at 04:48pm Bloggers Unite Behind Green Day Mashup
December 13, 2005
Warner Brothers recently signed a takedown notice for an internet mash-up of Green Day's American Idiot album called American Edit, and the blogosphere has issued a call to arms. Internet activists are calling today "Dean Grey Tuesday," and protesting Warner's actions by mirroring the American Edit album or turning their background page gray, reports the website Americanedit.org. Over 200 participants are registered with the protest, which Americanedit.org says, "is not intended to be a mass organization of music piracy but, rather, one single display of the consumptive power of the mash-up and home remix community in the hopes of encouraging the labels...to consider giving the high quality productions of 'illegitimate' music a legitimate consideration as a promotional avenue for all music."
A similar protest was launched in 2004 when EMI tried to block the distribution of Danger Mouse's Grey Album -- a mash-up of the Beatles' White Album and Jay-Z's Black Album. No official comment yet from Green Day on Dean Grey Tuesday, though Americanedit.org quotes Billy Joe as saying, "I was driving in my car, and I heard a Green Day mash-up, with, um, Oasis and Aerosmith. It sounded cool!"
http://americanedit.org/home/ae/ American Edit official site[/url] |
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Posts: 1516 | December 13th, 2005 at 08:56pm Whoa..
I just downloaded American Jesus.. It's.. Um.. Strange. |
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Posts: 157 | December 14th, 2005 at 02:14pm i totally heard all those on the radio the other day. kinda creepy cool weird in a strange way. |
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Posts: 1307 | December 14th, 2005 at 05:30pm What is the album being mashed up with? |
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Posts: 1516 | December 16th, 2005 at 10:15pm Brand New Cadillac:What is the album being mashed up with?
It's like.. I don't know. In American Jesus theres like Kanye West or something.. So I think it's just random songs? Iunno. |
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Posts: 267 | December 16th, 2005 at 11:46pm Thanks for the link. I was able to work my way to a page left from tuesday that hadn't been taking down. Sweet mashups. I just wish it had done Green Day a little more justice...like Ashanti's Letterbomb...I mean, I could barely hear the music..just her singing. Still ok I guess. |
