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“Wake Up the Sleepers” címmel jelenik meg hamarosan a Kill Hannah várva várt új nagylemeze, melynek számlistáját mi már tudjuk, és most Veletek is megosztjuk a tovább után. A lipszlájkmorfin-os csapat lemeze egyébként 14 nap és kicsivel kevesebb, mint 8 óra múlva jelenik meg az Original Signal/Universal szárnyai alatt, és két számot róla már hallhattok is a srácok MySpace profilján.
Kill Hannah – Wake Up the Sleepers
1) RADIO 2) SNOWBLINDED 3) NEW YORK CITY SPEED 4) LIVING IN MISERY 5) STROBE LIGHTS 6) GRANDMA’S SAD EYES 7) TOKYO 8) MOUTH TO MOUTH 9) VULTURES 10) ESCAPE ARTISTRY 11) ACID RAIN 12) LAIKA 13) PROMISE ME
1966 Meets 2009
I first found out about myspace back in 2004. I was on a flight to LA when a young woman I met thought it may be a cool place I’d like to check out. We were talking about bands and of course every other creative idea you can kick around with someone who enjoys art, design and music. For me MySpace became a location I could find new artists, check out the latest bands and meet new friends.
In the US perhaps as a social network MySpace has been replaced by Facebook and Twitter…but for bands, promoting your music and allowing you to reach new fans still has its value.
Bye Bye Bicycle
On the 26:th of August Bye Bye Bicycle released their new album “Compass” in Sweden. So how did a guy in Ohio stumble upon them. And how would I have ever seen there videos or checked out there music if it wasn’t for MySpace or YouTube. Unlikely that I wouldn’t have. Not only is the band worth a listen. And oh yeah they use MySpace as a vehicle to share their sound…but they have pretty good taste for cover art.
The Pioneers of Conceptual and Modern architecture
Bye Bye Bicycle’s debut album “Compass” utilizes the great works of Adolfo Natalin and Gian Piero Frassinelli illustrations from the Italian architecture group Superstudio. These illustrations were made and originally used in 1966 and are “true classics”, containing style and ideals that will live on forever.
2PM member JaeBum’s last performance at the InCheon Korea Music Wave Festival in Korea before he left group 2PM and went back to the States was aired on 12th September.
And after the last performance, JaeBum was seen doing a 90 degrees bow to show how sorry he. This scene has got fans and netizens feeling more heartbroken.
Go under the cut for:
* Petition to get JaeBum back to Korea gets 160K netizens’ support
* Tourism board travel event for member Nich Khun gets postponed again and again
Netizens say,
* “It is heartbreaking to know that this is JaeBum’s last performance”
* “I wish this isn’t his last performance”
* “My heart hurts”
* “I wish JaeBum would come back”
* “So thankful we get to see his last performance”
Meanwhile, it is said that over 160K netizens have participated in a petition on Agora titled ‘Can’t send JaeBum away like that’ online.
2PM fans say, “Don’t run away. We can’t send you away just like that. Only when you really can’t stay and promote in Korea anymore, then you can leave! But not now.”
The petition started from 8th September, and until 12th September it has received over 160,000 support. At about 4pm on 12th September, there were 161,515 netizens who had participated in the petition.
Fans are also doing exercises and boycott against JYP if the group is to promote as 6 members and will only return support until the group is 7 members again.
With that, the event ‘Travel to Thailand with Nich Khun’ by M Travel Agency has also been postponed several times. There were originally about 100 participants for the event to go on a travel trip with Nich Khun to Phuket/Bangkok for 5 days, but due to the boycott, fans have withdrawn from the event, and there are only about 30 confirmed participants for it.
Also, 2PM’s fanclub Hottest will also be having a silent protest outside JYP’s office building at 2pm on 13th September to ask for 2PM leader JaeBum to return to the group.
Meanwhile, JaeBum has left 2PM and also Korea on 8th September, 4 days after the backlashes from the revelation of his pre-debut messages posted on MySpace.
Park Jin Young also issued an official statement on 10th September.
I really have to ask myself this question, and I sign up for a Pimp-My-Profile account at 2:30 AM on a Friday night. I know people don’t use it anymore and I hardly check into it. But lately I’m kind of over Facebook.
FB is cool for old friends and people you don’t know… but… if you want to hear some new music, connect with some interesting creators,or just have a place where people can interact with the stuff you are making, well, MySpace kind of rocks.
It’s tools have gotten a lot better, ala wanting to compete with FB, even if a little late. That being said, I am having a lot of fun making a profile, linking with interesting musicians and connecting with other creators.
I am about to have a conversation with you that will have you laughing at me, shaking your head and probably rolling your eyes at the ridiculousness of “today’s youth” (wait, do I still count as today’s youth? Or is that reserved for the naive youngsters I complain about on occasion? Guess we’ll never know…).
Only in the noughties would such a subject arise. Especially from my mouth keyboard. Yes, much to my own dismay, I am going to add to the numerous conversations on social networking.
I ‘discovered’ social networking rather late in the game, apparently; I found out about Myspace on the Tyra show in late 2006. She was interviewing Tom, and I had no idea who he was or what on earth they were talking about. This is probably not unexpected, being that at that time I had only owned my own computer for about a year (that’s right, I didn’t even think about buying a computer until I was 20. Even then it was only because I needed it to study. Blasphemy, I know), and was still using those prepaid internet disc things. Anyway, I jumped online and typed in the address, set up an account and…Well, and nothing. I didn’t log back on for about a month. Seemed pretty boring and pointless to me.
Eventually, I fixed up my page, searched through some profiles and started adding friends. Then, I joined some groups, added even more friends and learnt how to “customise my profile”. I slowly started understanding it all, and spent more and more time checking my inbox and group posts. My friends consisted of people I had been friends with forever, a few family members and a couple of randoms. It became a great way to fill in time while the kidlings were napping, and I actually met some pretty cool people on there. One of which has been a very good friend of mine for four years now (or there abouts).
Later, I stumbled across the rival – Facebook. Ok, I didn’t so much stumble upon it, as embarrassed myself in a conversation where I uttered the unforgivable phrase “what’s a Facebook?”. Mind you, this was in late 2007. Late again, it seems. I had been wondering why Myspace was suddenly like a ghost town.
So this was where all of my friends were hiding! I set up an account, added all of my friends and family and started poking people right and left. Send a smiley? Sure! Put a bumper sticker on my profile? Why not! Send a gift? Don’t mind if I do!
After a few months, I had friend requests popping up all over the place from people whose names I hadn’t heard in years. Old school friends, people I had met randomly whose names I had to repeat to myself for about half an hour before I remembered who they were, family members I thought had fallen off the face of the earth…By 2008 I could have sworn I had “friended” about half of every school I’d been to, every living relative I have and about half the population of my home town.
This is where the confusion sets in.
I had requests from people who had teased me relentlessly as a teenager, who then sent me messages assuring me that they had grown up now and that they were so sorry for how they had treated me. Really? You can pop up on my screen ten years later and try and relinquish your guilt? I was floored every time.
I have ex boyfriends wanting to chat, people I’d hardly spoken a word to in years leaving me numerous wall posts as if we had been friends our whole lives, apologies/explanations in my inbox from people who hated me, and loving sentiments/statements of solidarity from people I hated. How on earth do you deal with all of this stuff? What exactly is the etiquette for blowing off someone you don’t want to be friends with in a world where everyone is a mutual friend and they keep popping up in that annoying “people you may know” box? Do you take the high road, add them and be friendly? Do you point out the ridiculousness of their actions and ignore them? Do you simply ignore them and hope it never comes up again? Do you add them and then ignore them?
In real life these problems are simple. You don’t like someone; you simply don’t see them again. How is it different? Where everyone is friends with everyone else, they can all see your conversations, know what you’re doing and have some kind of expectation that because you know them there has to be some kind of internet recognition. A kind of recognition that isn’t expected in the real world.
Even worse is when you’re on the other side of this equation. What happens when you request someone you used to know, and they ignore you completely? Normally this wouldn’t bother you at all. But you can see that they have added all of your friends. They all talk to each other, share updates and comment on each other’s photos. They have people on their friends list who they have barely talked to, but your friend request remains unanswered. Why, why won’t they acknowledge you! What happens if someone you knew well doesn’t want to be your friend? What did you do wrong? Did you offend them in some way you can’t quite remember?
From having missed the boat in a rather large way, I am now caught up in the intricacies and politics of social networking. Why does rejection in a virtual world seem so much more cutting than in everyday life? Is it because we see it every day, where we normally wouldn’t even think about these people? Does it simply exacerbate our innate insecurity to have someone publicly reject you? And why do we feel the need to add every single person we ever knew, even when it is clearly inappropriate?
I’m not sure of the answers. All I can say is, those who are trying to establish some kind of non-existent or long lost connection with me – please stop it. It’s over. It’s not you, it’s me…really. And those who are still ignoring me to their little hearts’ content….please, I need validation! I’m cute and ever so funny!
Some pretty shocking data for UK fans of the social networking site MySpace was highlighted last week, with the news that traffic to the site has now dropped behind that of microblogging site Twitter.
On one side, this is just more evidence of the amazing rise of Twitter in the UK (leading to London being described as the “capital of Twitter” by its CEO, Ev Williams) – and these site traffic stats actually only tell part of that story, due to the number of people using third-party applications to manage their Twitter accounts.
However what is more significant is such clear evidence for the apparent collapse of MySpace over here.
With the pace of change in the Web 2.0 world over the last few years, it’s easy to forget just how dominant MySpace looked in the UK market back in the early days of the online social networking goldrush. As a reminder, I dug-out a blog post I wrote ‘way back’ in early June 2007 – when it was Facebook that was the freshfaced newcomer showing what would now be described as ‘Twitterish’ growth…
Amazing to think that back then MySpace was sitting pretty on over 100m users worldwide, compared to Facebook’s mere 25m. The story since then has of course been dominated by Facebook – with it’s active user numbers reaching 250m by July this year, while MySpace growth has stalled such that even its dominance in the US social media market seems doomed.
All in all, a useful reminder never to take the social networking world for granted. It is still a far from mature marketplace and there is pretty well constant change going on out there, whether related to new functionality, shifting user demographics, or the simple departure of users altogether. All of which makes it essential for any marketers or fundraisers responsible for social media activity to keep an eye out for data that helps them understand just what’s happening, so as to help guide where to invest time and budgets when looking to engage with supporters online.
