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suzanne
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if you don't know, i've been taking a legal issues in music class (yes, kiss my feet) and they were discussing the concept of who pays for the music videos...and i began to wonder exactly what morrissey's contract reads in regards to this.
y'see, most record contracts require the artist and label to split the costs of making a video up until a certain price and then usually, the artist has to pay for the rest of it....and the artist pays for this out of their royalties.
the thing is, it makes me think of the cancellation of the Inland date because they were supposed to film a video at about that time. maybe his contract requires him to make a video for every single they release, and maybe morrissey didn't want to be stuck with the bill for this dinky video.
i mean, think about it: it gets aired a handful of times in the UK, it gets stuck on the single itself to supposedly entice people to buy the thing....there is a larger chance that this thing eats his royalties rather than add anything to the sale of albums....and maybe morrissey himself isn't too happy with these people at his label taking his CDs and releasing them in 40 different formats. yeah, maybe it sounded like a cool idea for the first single to herald the coming of morrissey after so long, but i seriously think that the moment has passed for them to be doing this crap. i like getting b-sides as much as anybody else, but i think that they really need to cut down on this extraneous junk of releasing 2 singles in this manner.
y'see, most record contracts require the artist and label to split the costs of making a video up until a certain price and then usually, the artist has to pay for the rest of it....and the artist pays for this out of their royalties.
the thing is, it makes me think of the cancellation of the Inland date because they were supposed to film a video at about that time. maybe his contract requires him to make a video for every single they release, and maybe morrissey didn't want to be stuck with the bill for this dinky video.
i mean, think about it: it gets aired a handful of times in the UK, it gets stuck on the single itself to supposedly entice people to buy the thing....there is a larger chance that this thing eats his royalties rather than add anything to the sale of albums....and maybe morrissey himself isn't too happy with these people at his label taking his CDs and releasing them in 40 different formats. yeah, maybe it sounded like a cool idea for the first single to herald the coming of morrissey after so long, but i seriously think that the moment has passed for them to be doing this crap. i like getting b-sides as much as anybody else, but i think that they really need to cut down on this extraneous junk of releasing 2 singles in this manner.