I bring you, the horror
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- KVRAF
- 2844 posts since 1 Jan, 2003
Yes. This is how these things are done. Are you Ed?A.M. Gold wrote:Ok, wait a minute...like my favorite mid-'70's reporter/monster hunter Carl Kolchak (aka TV's The Night Stalker), I think I'm on the trail of something truly otherworldly and weird here.
I've just read an article about ARK Music Factory, and then glanced at their website.
I'm beginning to get a pretty clear picture of what happened here. Basically, ARK is a hobby-star manufacturing outfit for the children of fairly wealthy parents (the only ones who are likely to be able to afford their fees).
First, they put out casting calls for girls aged 13-17 in which they hype the potential they have to make these girls into "stars".
Basically, the parents pay and the girls get a total "star makeover", which includes some styling, a song written for them, a decent quality recording produced and mastered, and some kind of basic (but competently shot and edited) video made, then posted to YouTube. This is like Fantasy Island for teenage girls who want to play singing star.
The upshot is that we get the Rebecca Black phenomenon as a direct result. These guys haven't been around for very long at all so I would hazard a guess that the RB situation is the first of its kind to emerge from their "factory".
A girl who very likely would never have been picked up by any serious label is given a brief "star treatment" by a pseudo-label, paid for in full by her parents, and then YouTube takes over and does the rest.
The rest being...the song, video, and singer are all mercilessly ravaged and torn to pieces by hundreds of thousands of eager sharks with YouTube accounts.
Where do you think the "vocal track" came from? It's just an intake interview, recorded, chopped, autotuned to a simple melody.
These places have existed to take money from Moms for years. The only difference now is Autotune and YouTube.
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- KVRAF
- 16977 posts since 23 Jun, 2010 from north of London ON
Even before this there were 'vanity presses'.... 
Barry
If a billion people believe a stupid thing it is still a stupid thing
If a billion people believe a stupid thing it is still a stupid thing
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- Rad Grandad
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
robojam wrote:Cordelia wrote:Are you Ed?
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.
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Chuck E. Jesus Chuck E. Jesus https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=108246
- R.I.P.
- 7301 posts since 23 May, 2006 from in between a cornfield and a river
i miss the old Ed...
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- Rad Grandad
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
Chuck E. Jesus wrote:i miss the old Ed...
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.
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- KVRAF
- 5524 posts since 5 May, 2007 from Mars Colony
Wouldn't know. I'm not a Mom, don't live anywhere near LA, and I'm not Ed. Thanks for asking, though.Cordelia wrote: Yes. This is how these things are done. Are you Ed?
Where do you think the "vocal track" came from? It's just an intake interview, recorded, chopped, autotuned to a simple melody.
These places have existed to take money from Moms for years. The only difference now is Autotune and YouTube.
"You don’t expect much beyond a gaping, misspelled void when you stare into the cold dark place that is Internet comments."
---Salon on internet trolls attacking Cleveland kidnapping victim Amanda Berry
---Salon on internet trolls attacking Cleveland kidnapping victim Amanda Berry
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- Rad Grandad
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
wouldn't that ed be with paul?
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.
