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Hall and Oates and Web 2.0

WEDNESDAY JULY 12 2006 6:43 PM

Submitted by Sean. Edited By Sean.

TAGS: hall, oates, music, piracy, youtube, publicist, smart, marketing, viral

Yesterday our very own SuicideGirl Reagan decided to lip sync her favorite Hall & Oates song on her webcam and upload it to YouTube. It quickly rose to one of the top ten most viewed videos of the day.



As you can see by this letter, according to the RIAA, Reagan is a music pirate. Had she lipsynced a Metallica song, one can only imagine the legal burden she would now be facing.

You usually think of younger bands as embracing new technologies and means of marketing, but Hall & Oates response was to Reagan was great:

> > Hi Chloe:
> > we handle publicity for Hall and Oates and want to thank you for posting your "Maneater" vid. if you have a po box we would like to send you Daryl and John's latest "Our Kind of Soul" to say thanks for the love.
> > Best,
> > Aaron
> > Wolfson Public Relations

 

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judypatricia

judypatricia

Brookline, MA
January 2004

JUL 12, 2006 06:51 PM

I love the internet, sometimes.

Skism

Skism

I'm lost
September 2005

JUL 12, 2006 06:51 PM

God she's so fucking cute.. good song.. better lipsyncer..

v33

v33

Toronto, ON
November 2003

JUL 12, 2006 06:56 PM

Great vid, Reagan!!!!

RIAA can fark itself. Good thing they are on top of protecting the rights of cutting-edge, contemporary bands like Hall and Oates.

jason

jason

USA
August 2002

JUL 12, 2006 06:59 PM

no vid? no linky to letter?

Wolfmaen

Wolfmaen

Roswell, GA
May 2004

JUL 12, 2006 07:01 PM

That's the way, UH HUH UH HUH, I like it ARRR!!!

Ziltoid

Ziltoid

Australia
April 2006

JUL 12, 2006 07:03 PM

Like we really needed any MORE reasons to love that girl.

I'll never be able to listen to that song again and not think of this. And I'm okay with that.

Twwly

Twwly

SUICIDEGIRL

Ontario, Canada

JUL 12, 2006 07:04 PM

HAHA.

Awesome.
biggrin

bairdduvessa

bairdduvessa

Centerville, MA
April 2005

JUL 12, 2006 07:05 PM

holy shit, she was always cute before but now...now she is beyond cute. What a killer smile and...and...*swoons

thefreak

thefreak

NEWSWIRE

Gardner, MA

JUL 12, 2006 07:11 PM

SG and Hall and Oates giving an indirect "Fuck Off" to the RIAA?

That's BADASS.

-TM

SuicidePuppies

SuicidePuppies

Oakland, CA
June 2003

JUL 12, 2006 07:16 PM

They surely do get it. They understand that more people just got exposed to their music via the internet (and the hot girl lip syncing to it) than by any of the ClearChannel-controlled outlets of commercial radio over the past year -- who were more interested in playing the new Fall Out Boy single a hundred times a day and ruining music as we knew it in the process. Plus, they probably didn't have to spend a dime on any of the publicity (i.e. bypassing the idea of record company publicity advances, which bands often have to pay back)

Now hopefully, this will lead to a resurgence of new, younger fans who will be willing to come see Hall & Oates live (if they decide to play live that is). At which point, they can make more money on the road and through merchandising than they would in hiring costly radio promoters with their legalized Payola schemes to try and chart an aging band amongst the legion of pretty boy, cookie-cutter "bands", whist hopefully bypassing the major label's profit holds on them.

Rock on Hall and Oates (and of course, the always lovely, Reagan)!

And boo to the RIAA, you idiots.

nalchellda

nalchellda

Syracuse, NY
December 2004

JUL 12, 2006 07:17 PM

good song, great lypsincer, and Hall & Oates's respons is priceless

Holy_Mountain

Holy_Mountain

Orlando, FL
February 2004

JUL 12, 2006 07:28 PM

Watch out for Reagan, she'll chew you up hehe. biggrin

whitepuma

whitepuma

Australia
March 2004

JUL 12, 2006 07:45 PM

So let me get this right Hall and Oates whom Reagan lipsynced love her for doing so and are going to reward her by giving her a copy of ther latest hit yet the always fucked up RIAA are claiming that she lip synced a Metallica song and breached copyright laws.

Well the first thing is have Metallica perfomed said song and the second who actually owns the copyright on said song if its owned by H&O then I really do hope they try and prosecute as this would then become a defimation of character case once it was proven the oh so sexy Reagan was innocent would potentially cost those Ivory tower money hungry bastards at the RIAA a bucket load of cash plus put them back in their box if its a public case plastered all over T.V and the net. It would damn shame it might criple them now wouldnt it.

Haushinka

Haushinka

Lakewood, NJ
August 2005

JUL 12, 2006 07:46 PM

So when do we get a chance to own that shirt? u_u

crispy

crispy

NEWSWIRE

Philadelphia, PA

JUL 12, 2006 07:56 PM

That was one of the greatest things I've ever seen.

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